Electoral Bonds, Incumbency Advantage, and Concentration of Political Power, The India Forum, July 7, 2024.

Determining how many Indians are poor today, Ideas for India, May 29, 2024.

Poverty in India Over the Last Decade: Data, Debates, and Doubts, The India Forum, April 10, 2024.

Quantity vs Quality: Long-term Trends in Job Creation in the Indian Labour Market, The India Forum, January 31, 2024.

Trends in Economic Inequality in India, The India Forum, (click here for pdf version), September 19, 2022.

Why people stay poor, in VoxEU.org, September 16, 2022.

How has Covid-19 affected India’s economy? Economics Observatory, June 30, 2021. (Reprinted in Scroll.in, July 9, 2021.)

India's Inequality Problem, The India Forum, July 2, 2021.

The real problem is of unequal opportunities, Forbes India, 12th Anniversary Special Issue, May 21, 2021.

2021 West Bengal Assembly election: Did the Covid-19 surge matter? Ideas for India, May 12, 2021.

West Bengal’s economic performance relative to India over the last three decades, Ideas for India, May 1, 2021.

Two Pieces on Timir and Other Poems by Sankha Ghosh - A Tribute, The Space Ink, April 23, 2021.

Remembering My Grandfather – Manish Ghatak, The Space Ink, February 15, 2021.

What Would Make India’s Growth Sustainable?  The India Forum, August 13, 2020.

How to reorganise the World Health Organization – and how to finance it, in LSE Business Review, June 5, 2020.

The World Health Organization: A GRID for reform, in VoxEU.org, May 30, 2020.

The Twin Crises of Covid-19 and How to Resolve Them, The India Forum, April 24, 2020. 

What Lies Behind Abhijit Banerjee’s Nobel, The Open Magazine, October 17, 2019. Slightly revised version in Ideas for India, October 25, 2019.

Modi's five years prove that sustained economic growth is incompatible with toxic Hindutva politics, in Scroll.in, March 24, 2019.

The Mirage of Modinomics, (with Udayan Mukherjee), The India Forum, March 8, 2019.  

 Social Safety Net and Land Market Reform, in Abhijit Banerjee, Gita Gopinath, Raghu Rajan, and Mihir Sharma (eds.) What the Economy Needs, forthcoming, Delhi: Juggernaut Books.

Poverty and Inequality in a ‘Principles of Economics’ Textbook, (web version), Economic and Political Weekly of India,  Vol. 53, Issue No. 24, 16 Jun, 2018.

The Big Bank Theory - The Need to Move Beyond the Privatisation vs Nationalisation Debate, The Open Magazine, March 23, 2018

Commanding Heights Again, The Open Magazine, February 9, 2018.

Gujarat model: The gleam of state’s high growth numbers hides dark reality of poverty, inequality, in Scroll.in, October 25, 2017.

My Most Unforgettable Teacher, (pdf version) Reader's Digest, India, September 17, 2017.

Meghnad Badh Rahasya’ Evokes Memories of a Movement That Continues to Haunt Bengal’s Imagination, (with Manishita Dass), The Wire, September 5, 2017.

Combating poverty in developing countries with a universal basic income, VoxDev.org, July 17, 2017 (shorter version in The Wire, July 21, 2017). 

The Rhetoric of Partisanship, The Wire, July 1, 2017.

Why ‘Free’ Speech Is Not Always ‘Costless’, The Wire, June 14, 2017.

Behind the Struggle Against Erosion of Free Speech is a Fight Over the Rule of Law, The Wire, March 23, 2017.

Circles in Time - Memories of Presidency College, (pdf version), Autumn Annual, 2016-17, Vol. XLV, Presidency Alumni Association, Calcutta, January 2017.

The Trump Conundrum, The Open Magazine, Web Exclusive, 2 November 2016.

Nobel prize in Economics 2016: The economy as a nexus of contracts. Ideas for India, October 20, 2016.  

Angus Deaton - The Real World Economist, The Indian Express, October 16, 2015 (See longer version in the Ideas for India).

Response to the Bhagwati-Panagariya rejoinder on MNREGA, Ideas for India, December 14, 2014 (See shorter version in The Times of India).

Wrong Numbers: Attack on NREGA is Misleading, Times of India, November 9, 2014. Click here for a pdf version. (Slightly longer version in Ideas for India).

India has more than its fair share of super-rich and it isn’t a good thing (with Debraj Ray), The Economic Times, September 4, 2014. Click here for the longer Ideas for India version. 

Did Gujarat Switch to a Higher Growth Trajectory Relative To India under Modi? A Rejoinder (with Sanchari Roy), Economic and Political Weekly of India, May 3, 2014. Click here for the comment to which this piece responds to.  

Growth in the time of UPA: Myths and Reality (with Parikshit Ghosh & Ashok Kotwal),  Economic and Political Weekly of India, April 19, 2014. (Reprinted in Economic Growth and its Distribution in India (ed.s) Pulapre Balakrishnan, Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2015.)

Did Gujarat’s Growth Rate Accelerate under Modi? (with Sanchari Roy), Economic and Political Weekly of India, April 12, 2014. See here the version with the latest year's data.

A Look in the Mirror (with Sanchari Roy), Outlook, March 31, 2014. Click here for a pdf version, here for version with tables, and here for the Ideas for India version .

The Land Acquisition Bill: A Critique and a Proposal, (with Parikshit Ghosh), Economic and Political Weekly of India, October 8, 2011, Vol. XLVI, No 41.   

Beyond Nandigram: Industrialization in West Bengal (with A.V. Banerjee et al), Economic and Political Weekly of India, April 28, 2007.

Strategy for Economic Reform in West Bengal (with A.V. Banerjee et al), Economic and Political Weekly of India, October 12, 2002.