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Amey Sapre

Associate Professor

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Amey Sapre works as an Associate Professor at NIPFP. In his previous years at NIPFP, he worked as an assistant professor and as a Consultant in the Macro Finance group. Prior to joining NIPFP, he worked as a teaching assistant in Economics at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad, IIM Indore and as a UGC-SAP Research Fellow for sponsored research programmes in areas of development and agriculture in Madhya Pradesh. He studied at the Symbiosis International University, Pune and has a Ph.D in Economics from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur. His research interests include national accounts statistics, public finance and macroeconomics.

Research areas

National Accounts Statistics, Public Finance, Macroeconomics

Current research

- Status and Compilation issues in National Accounts (link)

- Seasonal adjustment of Index of Industrial Production (link)

- Estimation of value addition in the private corporate sector

Recent publications

Membership in committees and commissions

- Member, Sub-Group on Manufacturing item basket, Base Revision of WPI, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), 2025

- Member, 5th Finance Commission for Union Territories (without legislature), Ministry of Home Affairs, 2024

- Member, Sub-Committee of ACNAS for Incorporating New Data Sources in the National Accounts, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), 2024

- Member, Technical Advisory Group for Enterprise Survey, NSSO, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), 2024

- Budget Allocation and Finances of Union Territories, NIPFP-MHA project, Ministry of Home Affairs, 2020-22

- Working Group on Blue Economy, National Accounting Framework for Blue Economy and Ocean Governance, Economic Advisory Council (EAC-PM), Coordinated by the Ministry of Earth Sciences, 2018 - 2019

Professional activities

Training Programs:

  • 17th Refresher Training program for University and College Teachers, June 2025
  • Training program in Public Finance of Lead Bank Managers of Bank of India 2023, 2024 NIPFP, New Delhi
  • Training program in Public Finance for Indian Administrative Service, Phase-III 2022 onwards Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie
  • Statistics for Public Policy, 2020 onwards Indian School of Public Policy, New Delhi  
  • Training program for Indian Audit & Accounts Services (IAAS) Probationers, 2018 onwards  
  • Refresher Course in Public Finance & Public Economics for University and College Teachers, NIPFP 2018 onwards  
  • Courses on National Accounts Statistics at, National Statistical Systems Training Academy (NSSTA), Noida
  • Indian Civil Accounts Services Training Program, NIPFP
  • Indian Audits and Accounts Services Training Program, NIPFP
  • Indian Telecommunications Services Training Program, NIPFP
  • Estimation of Blue Economy, Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal
  • Estimation of GDP, O/o Comptroller and Auditor General of India
  • National Accounts Statistics program module for National Audit and Accounts Academy (NAAA), Shimla
  • Agriculture Statistics and Speculative Design 2019, School of Architecture and Planning, Bhopal

Projects:

  • Report, 5th Finance Commission for Union Territories (without legislature) on devolution to urban and rural local bodies of Union Territories, 2024
  • Status and Measurement issues in GSDP Estimation of Karnataka, Sponsored by Department of Finance, Govt. of Karnataka, 2023
  • NIPFP - Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) Research program on Finances of Urban Local Bodies, Sponsored by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, 2023
  • Status and Compilation issues in National Accounts Statistics, Sponsored by Economic Advisory Council of the Prime Minister (EAC-PM), 2022 - 2023  
  • Sources and Methods of GSDP Estimation of Puducherry: A third-party assessment, Sponsored by Govt. of Union Territory of Puducherry, 2022
  • Fiscal profile of Madhya Pradesh, in collaboration with Atal Bihari Institute of Good Governance and Policy, Bhopal, 2022
  • State of the Economy, NIPFP Quarterly Reports for Economic Advisory Council of the Prime Minister (EAC-PM), 2021
  • Contributed to: Jobs, Growth and Sustainability NIPFP - CEEW, Report 2020
  • Assessment of Budget allocation and Finances of Union Territories, NIPFP - Ministry of Home Affairs Research Program, 2019-2021
  • Assessment of credit stress in the Indian Corporate Sector, Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA), 2018   

  • Workshops/ Lectures:
  • Compilation of National Accounts, lecture at the National Statistical Systems Training Academy (NSSTA), 22nd June, 2018.
  • Issues in compiling GDP estimates, talk in 'Awareness workshop on official statistics', organized by National Statistical Systems Training Academy (NSSTA) and Central Statistics Office (CSO), Bangalore, 18-19th May, 2018.
  • Revisions in GDP, talk in ICAS Training program on Emerging issues in Public Finance and Policy, NIPFP, 18th April, 2018.
  • Introduction and issues in national accounts, lecture at the National Statistical Service Training Academy (NSSTA) Training program, 16th March, 2018.
  • GDP: Definitions revisions and issues, lecture in the Indian Audits and Accounts Services Training Program, Organized by NIPFP, 24th Jan, 2018.
  • Estimates of Private Final Consumption Expenditures in India, Dandekar Memorial Seminar and Conference on India’s GDP and implications for estimation of GSDP, Indian School of Political Economy, Pune, January, 2018.
  • Some unsettled questions about Indian manufacturing GDP estimation, Conference on Issues in India’s new GDP series, Indian School of Political Economy, Pune, January, 2017.
  • Estimation of value addition in the manufacturing sector: Problems and some solutions, Round Table Conference on issues in GDP, organized by Indira Gandhi Institute of Development & Research (IGIDR), August, 2016.

Other information

Recent papers:

  • Sapre, Amey (2021) Methodology and estimation framework for activities in the Blue Economy, KAS India-TERI-NMF-FICCI, Blue Economy Quadrilateral Dialogue Series, Sept. 2021,
  • Sapre, Amey (2021) Agricultural productivity in Bihar and its determinants: A district level analysis, in Contemporary Issues in Sustainable Development: e Case of India, Routledge, 2021 (With Mahendra Singh and Deep Mukherjee)
  • Sapre, Amey & Radhika Pandey & Pramod Sinha (2020) What do we gain from seasonal adjustment of the Indian Index of Industrial Production? NIPFP Working Paper, 322, October, 2020
  • Sapre, Amey (2019) Tax evasion and unaccounted incomes: a theoretical approach, NIPFP Working Paper, 289, December, 2019
  • Sapre, Amey & Radhika Pandey & Pramod Sinha (2019) What do we know about changing economic activity of firms? NIPFP Working Paper, 249, January, 2019
  • Sapre, Amey & Radhika Pandey & Pramod Sinha (2018) What does the new 2011-12 IIP series tell about the Indian manufacturing sector? India Growth and Development Review, Vol. 11, No. 2
  • Sapre, Amey & Pramod Sinha (2018) Private Final Consumption Expenditure of Households in India: Estimates: Issues and Challenges, Conference Proceedings on State level estimation of GDP, Journal of Indian School of Political Economy, Jul-Dec, 2018
  • Sapre, Amey & Rajeswari Sengupta (2017) An analysis of revisions in Indian GDP data, World Economics Journal, Vol. 18, No.4, October-December, 2017  
  • Sapre, Amey & Pramod Sinha (2017) Some unsettled questions about Indian Manufacturing GDP estimation, Journal of Indian School of Political Economy, Vol. XXIX, No. 1 & 2, January-June, 2017  
  • Roy, Pinaki & Amey Sapre (2016) Does social embedding influence banking habits: A case of India, Journal of Emerging Market Finance, Vol. 15.2, August, SAGE Publications  
  • Dholakia, RH & Amey Sapre (2014) Inter-sectoral Terms of Trade and aggregate supply response in Gujarat and Indian agriculture, Journal of antitative Economics, Vol.12, No. 2, July, pp. 60-75  
  • Ganesh Kumar N. & Amey Sapre (2012) Indo Canadian trade: Review and future prospects, in Samir Joshi, Walid Hejazi and Nivedita Bhadraka (Eds): Changing economic environment and performance of the nations: Canada and India, Excel India Publishers, New Delhi
  • Dholakia, RH & Amey Sapre (2012) Speed of adjustment and inflation-unemployment trade-off in developing countries: A case of India, Journal of Quantitative Economics, Vol. 10, No.1, Jan, 2012
  • Dholakia, RH & Amey Sapre (2011) Estimating structural breaks endogenously in India’s post-independence growth path: An empirical critique, Journal of Quantitative Economics, Vol. 9, No. 2, July  
  • Dholakia, RH & Amey Sapre (2011) Gujarat’s growth story, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XLVI, No. 32, August, 2011