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Rahul Rao is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Amrut Mody School of Management, Ahmedabad University. He completed his PhD in economics from IIM Bangalore, and graduated from IIT Kanpur with a BTech degree in Electrical Engineering.
He studies the role of market imperfections in affecting aggregate outcomes for an economy. His current research work spans the following subfields of macroeconomics: monetary, financial and spatial economics. He employs both empirical and theoretical modelling approaches.
Posts by Rahul Rao
Information is power: ICT and agricultural productivity
One reason for low agricultural productivity in developing countries is that farmers lack sufficient information or guidance in the use of modern agricultural methods. This article examines the impact...
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Aranya Chakraborty
Digvijay S. Negi
Rahul Rao
07 April, 2025
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Land misallocation and industrial development
Although a large share of land in India is used for cultivation, large tracts of this are unproductive and produce low crop yields. In this post, Dasgupta and Rao explain their calculations to determi...
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Kunal Dasgupta
Rahul Rao
07 February, 2023
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