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Ranjan Ray is Professor of Economics at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Ranjan joined Monash University in January 2008 as Professor of Economics from the University of Tasmania. He served as Professor of Economics at the University of Tasmania from 1995 till the beginning of 2008. He also served as Head of Economics at the University of Tasmania from 1995-1998. Prior to that, Ranjan held the position of Professor of Public Economics at the Delhi School of Economics, India from 1989-1995. He moved to Delhi after holding a permanent position in the Department of Econometrics at the University of Manchester in the UK from 1979-1989. He has also held visiting positions at several top ranking academic institutions such as the University of British Columbia and Cornell University.

Ranjan did his undergraduate studies in Presidency College, Calcutta and obtained his B.A. in Economics from the Universityof Calcutta, India. He did his post graduate studies at the Delhi School of Economics, securing his M.A. from Delhi University. He then proceeded to undertake his doctoral studies at the London School of Economics and secured his Ph.D. from London University, U.K. Ranjan has a wide range of research interests that include the specification and estimation of demand systems, the design and reform of commodity taxes, gender bias in consumption patterns, intra household resource allocation, child labour, household poverty and dietary patterns in developing countries, multi-dimensional deprivation, corruption and the informal sector. Ranjan has published widely in a number of highly ranked journals in Economics including The Economic Journal, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Economica, Oxford Economic Papers, European Economic Review, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Development Economics and The Economic Record. He is currently on the Editorial Board of the Economic Record, the official journal of the Economic Society of Australia. He has also been involved in projects funded by the World Bank and the ILO.