Satadru Sikdar
Assistant Professor
- Email satadru.sikdar@nipfp.org.in
- Phone 26569303 Ext - 184
Dr. Satadru Sikdar is with National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), New Delhi, since 2006. He was also Visiting Scientist at ICDD, University of Kassel, Germany under DAAD fellowships during November-December, 2018. He did his Ph.D. from Centre for Economic Studies and Planning (CESP/SSS), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Title of his Ph.D. thesis is “School Education in India: An Assessment of Public Provisioning since the Early 1990s”. He has been associated with several research studies in NIPFP, including preparation of Medium-Term Fiscal Policy for different states; effectiveness and utilisation of funds for selected schemes, property taxation and urban poverty alleviation among others.
Research areas
Public Policies, Governance, Education, Labour, Universal Basic Income, Subsidies and Public Finance Management
Recent publications
- (2019), "Subsidies, Merit Goods and the Fiscal Space for Reviving Growth: An Aspect of Public Expenditure in India", NIPFP Working Paper No. 282
- (2019), "Rate of Return to Education in India: Some Insights", NIPFP Working Paper No. 270
- (2016), "The Review of Compliance to Sikkim FRBM Act for the year 2013-14", Sponsored by Government of Sikkim
- (2016), "Governance Performance of Indian States 2001-02 and 2011-12", NIPFP Working paper No. 164
- (2014), "Three Decades of Human Development across Indian States: Inclusive Growth or Perpetual Disparity?", NIPFP Working Paper No. 139