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rchaurey@jhu.eduRitam Chaurey is an Assistant Professor of International Economics at Johns Hopkins SAIS. He holds a PhD in Economics from Columbia University. Prior to his doctoral studies, he completed an MA (Cantab.) from Cambridge University, and a BA (Hons) in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. His research interests are in the fields of development economics with a focus on firms and labour markets in developing countries. He has published his research in multiple academic journals, and written policy-relevant pieces for various outlets.
Posts by Ritam Chaurey
Implicit costs of factor allocation for Indian firms
Looking at variations in factor misallocation across states, Chaurey et al. measure trends in factor adjustment costs incurred by firms between 1999 and 2014. They find that adjustment costs for labou...
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The impact of services trade on non-tradable services in India
A share of India's service sector growth can be attributed to tradable services, which can also have positive productivity impacts on manufacturing. This article looks at the effect of services trade ...
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Besart Avdiu Ritam Chaurey Gaurav Nayyar Karan Singh Bagavathinathan 
25 November, 2022
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Rural infrastructure development and economic activity
Estimating the effects of physical infrastructure investments on economic growth has remained challenging, especially in rural settings. This article studies the effects of a rural infrastructure gran...
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Ritam Chaurey Duong Trung Le
- 18 March, 2020
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Industrial Policy in India
In this article, Ritam Chaurey provides an overview of India’s industrial and labour policy to put in perspective the issues facing firm growth.
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Ritam Chaurey
- 12 March, 2018
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Structural transformation and spillovers from ‘Industrial Areas’
A defining feature of economic development is the reallocation of labour from subsistence agriculture to manufacturing. To shed light on this process, this column analyses Karnataka’s Industrial Are...
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David Blakeslee Ritam Chaurey Ram Fishman Samreen Malik
- 07 December, 2017
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Do location-based incentives promote industrialisation?
In a bid to industrialise the relatively under-industrialised states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, the government implemented a tax incentive and capital subsidy scheme in the two states in 20...
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Ritam Chaurey
- 23 September, 2014
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