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Kunal Sen

UNU-WIDER
sen@wider.unu.edu

Kunal Sen is the Director of UNU-WIDER, and is on leave as Professor of Development Economics at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester.

He was educated at Elphinstone College, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, and Rutgers University, USA. His main research areas are economic growth, the analysis of poverty and labour markets, international trade and finance. 

Until 2011, Professor Sen was the Chair of the British Association for South Asian Studies, one of the world’s largest learned societies on South Asia. His published books include State-Business Relations and Economic Development in Africa and India; Trade Policy, Inequality and Performance in Indian Manufacturing; International Competitiveness, Investment and Finance: A Case-study of India (with A.G. Kumar and R. Vaidya); and Saving, Investment and Growth in India (with P. Athukorala). He has been awarded the Sanjaya Lall Prize in 2006 and Dudley Seers Prize in 2003 for his publications. He is a member of the ESRC Peer Review College, and South Asia Area Panel of the British Academy, as well as a Research Fellow of IZA, Bonn.

Posts by Kunal Sen

Boom and Bust: Institutional causes of India's growth slowdown in 2011

The slowdown in India’s growth in 2011 is generally attributed to the global financial crisis and domestic policy paralysis. In this article, Kunal Sen argues that the high growth rates in the 2000...

  • Perspectives

What explains the increasing use of contract workers in Indian manufacturing?

Contract workers constituted about one-fourth of all workers in formal manufacturing in India in 2008. This column analyses the extent to which trade liberalisation and lack of labour reforms explain...

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The puzzle of declining labour intensity in organised Indian manufacturing

It is surprising to note that labour intensity in the organised manufacturing sector in India, particularly in industries with greater labour requirements, has shown a sustained decline over the past...

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Helping India's informal manufacturing sector to grow

India’s informal manufacturing sector is dominated by small household enterprises that keep everything within the family – but these firms are often the least productive. Why aren’t these small ...

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How Important are credit constraints for small firm growth?

This project focusses on the role of financial constraints in determining the lack of transition of firms from the very small family firms (OAMEs) which are the predominant type of firms in the inform...

  • IGC Research on India