Sambit Bhattacharyya, BSc(CU), MA(DU), PhD(ANU)
Research Fellow, Australia South Asia Research Centre, The Arndt-Corden Division of Economics
Email: Sambit.Bhattacharyya@anu.edu.au
Biographical Statement
Sambit Bhattacharyya is a Research Fellow at the Australia South Asia Research Centre (ASARC) within The Arndt-Corden Division of Economics, RSPAS. He graduated from the Australian National University (ANU) in 2007. His PhD thesis was on "Theory and Empirics of Root Causes of Economic Progress", a topic on which he has published research articles in reputed international journals of the discipline. He is currently working on an ARC funded project "Social Safety Nets in India: Effectiveness, Nutritional Impact, and Political Economy" with Raghbendra Jha.
Research Interests
Comparative economic development, comparative politics, institutional economics, and poverty and nutrition with a special focus on India.
Key Publications
- "Institutions and Trade: Competitors or Complements in Economic Development?" DEGIT – XII, University of Melbourne, June 2007. (with Steve Dowrick and Jane Golley)
- "Root Causes of African Underdevelopment," Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Hamburg, May 2007.
- "Which Institutions Matter Most for Growth," Australasian Meeting of the Econometric Society, Alice Springs, 2006.
- "Root Causes of Economic Progress Re-examined," Economic Society of Australia’s 34th Annual Conference of Economists, Melbourne, 2005.
- "Deep Determinants of Economic Growth," Applied Economics Letters, 2004, 11: pp. 587-590.
