Pinaki Chakraborty
Visiting Distinguished Professor
- Email pinaki.chakraborty@nipfp.org.in
- Phone 26569303 Ext - 142
Pinaki Chakraborty is a Visiting Distinguished Professor at NIPFP and the Vice-Chairman of the Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur. Prior to this, he was the Director and Professor, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi, and Economic Advisor to the Fourteenth Finance Commission of India.
He served as Member, Advisory Council to the Fifteenth Finance Commission of India; Member-Secretary, Committee on Fiscal Statistics appointed by the National Statistical Commission; Chairman, Kerala Public Expenditure Review Committee—a statutory committee appointed by the Government of Kerala; and Research Associate, Levy Economics Institute, New York. He also served as Member of the Third Union Territory Finance Commission, appointed by the Ministry of Home Affairs, and as Consultant to the Eleventh Finance Commission of India. He was Chief of Social Policy at UNICEF and the Chief of Field Office at UNICEF Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
Chakraborty has held short-term visiting positions in the Department of Economics at the University of Ottawa, the University of Carleton, the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, and also taught the Indian Public Finance module at the Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research, Mumbai.
He testified before the Select Committee of the Upper House of India Parliament in June 2015 on the Constitution Amendment Bill on GST. His book titled “GST in India: A Simple Tax in a Complex Federal System” was published by Orient Back Swan in 2019. He has also researched extensively on the decentralization and development of states in India. He has co-authored two books titled “State Level Reforms, Growth, and Development in Indian States” published by the Oxford University Press in New York in 2014 and “Social Sector in a Decentralised Economy: India in the Era of Globalization,” published by Cambridge University Press. He regularly publishes in various national and international journals. He has an MPhil in Applied Economics and a PhD in Economics from the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum.
Recent publications
- (2024), "State Finances in India: Managing Fiscal Risks and Sustaining Recovery", NIPFP Working Paper No. 413
- (2023), "Independent Fiscal Councils: Lapdogs or Watchdogs?", (Co-authored with Y V Reddy, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 58, Issue No. 12 (2023), pp. 15-17, 25 March.
- (2022), "The post-COVID-19 Economic Recovery and Fiscal Stance", Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 57, Issue No. 13 (2022), pp. 13-16, 26 March.
- (2021), "COVID-19 Context and the Fifteenth Finance Commission: Balancing Fiscal Need and Macroeconomic Stability", Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 56, Issue No. 33 (2021), pp. 33-39, 14 August.
- (2021), "Political competitiveness and the private–public structure of public expenditure: a model and empirics for the Indian States", (Co-authored with Stanley L.Winer, J.Stephen Ferris and Bharatee Bhusana Dash), International Tax and Public Finance (Springer), Vol.28, Issue No. 1 (2021), https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10797-020-09642-1