Arnab K. Deb

Associate Professor of Economics, International Management Institute (IMI), Kolkata

Arnab K. Deb is presently working as an Associate Professor of Economics at International Management Institute (IMI), Delhi. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from University of Connecticut, Storrs, U.S.A. He completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Economics from University of Calcutta. He has around 10 years of experience in teaching and research. His research interest includes Microeconomics, Industrial Organization, Institutional Economics and Data Envelopment Analysis. He has worked on an NSF (National Science Foundation) funded project “Economic and Social Rights: Obstacle or Handmaiden to Growth?. His major responsibility in that project was to design alternative approaches to define an indicator of the extent to which countries are fulfilling their economic and social rights obligations under the International Covenant for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). Before joining the Ph.D. program he had served as a Research Associate in AC Nielsen ORG Marg, Kolkata and worked on two projects “District Level Monitoring of all Programs of Ministry of Rural Development, India” and “Moving out of Poverty: Growth & Democracy”. He has attended and presented research paper at national as well as international conferences. Presently, he holds the Editorship of the journal Emerging Economy Studies being published from IMI, Delhi and Sage, India. He has received multiple fellowships and awards in his career. He has been awarded awarded the “Pre-doctoral Fellowships” by the Department of Economics for the period 2007 to 2011 and “Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship” by the Graduate School in the year 2012. He was also recognized with the “Abraham Ribicoff Graduate Fellowship” by the Department of Economics, University of Connecticut in 2011.