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Karan Bhasin is a young economist who holds a master's degree from TERI School of Advanced Studies and a bachelor's degree in economics from The University of London. He is presently a graduate student and is currently based out of New York. He has diverse research interests spanning areas such as Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, and political economy. He has worked with multiple think tanks, government agencies and multilateral institutions in the past. A regular columnist, he writes for major digital publishing platforms, leading Indian magazines and newspapers.
Posts by Karan Bhasin
Synthetic Control Method: Opportunity for policy evaluation
Policy evaluation involves estimating the effect of an intervention, by comparing outcomes in units subjected to the intervention with otherwise similar units not subjected to intervention. However, t...
- Karan Bhasin
- 08 November, 2024
- Perspectives
Measuring poverty in the absence of Consumption Expenditure Survey data
In the first post of a six-part series on , Surjit Bhalla and Karan Bhasin discuss issues related to measurement of absolute poverty in India. They summarise their IMF working paper from April 2022, a...
- Surjit Bhalla Karan Bhasin
- 10 October, 2022
- Perspectives