Mukesh Anand
Associate Professor
Mukesh Anand is an Assistant Professor with the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy. After graduating in Chemistry he completed Master’s degree in Business Management from Calcutta University and a doctorate in Economics from Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research. He has contributions in the broad areas of social security, pensions, subsidies, fiscal federalism and resource transfers to the sub-national level, trade liberalization, indirect tax reform, and fuel pricing. He was a member of the teams preparing the state development reports of Assam, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, and Meghalaya. He has organized several short-duration training programmes for officers at different levels in differing services of government of India as well as with some state governments. He has also been a short-term consultant for World Bank and DFID. He has occasionally refereed for Indian Economic Review, Indian Economic Journal, and ASCI Journal of Management.
Research areas
Pensions, Social Security, Subsidies, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Fiscal Federalism, Tax reforms, Social and Physical Infrastructure
Recent publications
- (2019), "Public Expenditure on Old-Age Income Support in India: Largesse for a Few, Illusory for Most", NIPFP Working Paper No. 253
- (2016), "Reforming fossil fuel prices in India: Dilemma of a developing economy", Energy Policy, 92(May): 139–150
- (2014), "Direct and Indirect Use of Fossil Fuels in Farming: Cost of Fuel-price Rise for Indian Agriculture", NIPFP Working Paper No. 132
- (2012), "Diesel Pricing in India: Entangled in Policy Maze", Report submitted to the Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI) of International Institute of Sustainable Development
- (2011), "Sustainable Development of Meghalaya: Vision 2030", Report submitted to the Government of Meghalaya
Professional activities
Refree, ASCI Journal of Management.
