Prabir Kumar Ghosh

Prabir Kumar Ghosh

Senior Fellow

Prabir Kumar Ghosh is a Senior Fellow at NCAER. Currently, he is involved in coordinating all-India level survey work and analysis of large scale primary data. His research interests include development economics, human development, income, expenditure, poverty & nutrition, demography, and budgetary analysis on social sector & poverty alleviation programs.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY | Health Seeking Pathways in Four Indian States of India
Findings from a Survey on Health Care Seeking for Chronic and Acute Illnesses
Prabir Kumar Ghosh Ajay Mahal, Sumit Kane, Sumit Kumar, Shayequa Zeenat Ali, Charu Jain, Sagari Sahu, Sree Sanyal, Chanchal Negi, MAdhura Chowdhury, Barbara McPake.
September 2023

ARTICLE | Social Science & Medicine
Is there an association between public spending on health and choice of healthcare providers across socioeconomic groups in India? – Evidence from a national sample.
Patrick Mulcahy, Ajay Mahal, Barbara McPake, Sumit Kane, Prabir Kumar Ghosh, John Tayu Lee
September 2021

REPORT | NCAER and the Nossal Institute for Global Health
Healthcare seeking pathways in Uttar Pradesh and Odisha, India
Prabir Kumar Ghosh, Sumit Kane, Sumit Kumar, Shayequa Zeenat Ali, Sagari Sahu, Sree Sanyal, Madhura Chowdhury, Barbara McPake, and Ajay Mahal
October 2021

REPORT | NCAER
Cluster Mapping Study of the Gems & Jewellery Sector in India
K A Siddiqui,  Prabir Kumar Ghosh,  Poonam Munjal,  Shayequa Zeenat Ali,  Asrar Alam,  Palash Baruah,  Sundus Usmani,  Gargi Pal,  Animesh Sharma
2020

REPORT | NCAER
The Third Tourism Satellite Accounts of India, 2015-16
Poonam Munjal,  M R Saluja,  K A Siddiqui,  Prabir Kumar Ghosh,  Palash Baruah,  Asrar Alam
2018

WORKING PAPER | USIPI
Role of Education and Diversity in India – How Social Structure Impacts the Gross Domestic Product?
P K Ghosh, A Shariff, K A Siddiqui and A Sharma
2012

WORKING PAPER | Overseas Development Institute, London
Indian Public Expenditures on Social Sector and Poverty Alleviation Programmes during the 1990s
P K Ghosh and A Shariff
2002

JOURNAL | Frontline
A Crisis in the Rice Economy
P K Ghosh and B Harris-White
2002

WORKING PAPER | National Council of Applied Economic Research
Indexing Human Development in India: Indicators, Scaling and Composition
P K Ghosh, A Kundu and A Shariff
2002

WORKING PAPER | Economic and Political Weekly
Public expenditure on social sector and poverty alleviation programmes
P K Ghosh and A Shariff
2002

JOURNAL | ARTHA VIJNANA
State of Life of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in India
P K Ghosh
2001

WORKING PAPER | National Council of Applied Economic Research
Household Expenditure on Elementary Education: Implications for Cost Recovery Mechanisms
P K Ghosh, A Shariff and T Buragohain
2000

WORKING PAPER | National Council of Applied Economic Research
Human Development Profile of Scheduled Castes and Tribes in Rural India
P K Ghosh and G Chakrabarty
2000

WORKING PAPER | Economic and Political Weekly
Indian Education Scene and the Public Gap
P K Ghosh and A Shariff
2000

WORKING PAPER | National Council of Applied Economic Research
Growth of Literacy among SCs and STs Across States
P K Ghosh and G Chakrabarty
2000

JOURNAL | Indian Association of Social Science Institutions
Disparity and Some Possible Determinants in Rural Literacy/Education
P K Ghosh
1998

JOURNAL | YOJANA
Inter-state Disparities in Education
P K Ghosh
1998

JOURNAL | VISION
Education among Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in Rural Orissa
P K Ghosh and G Chakrabarty
1997

JOURNAL | YOJANA
Problems of Primary Education in West Bengal
P K Ghosh
1997

BOOK CHAPTER | Oxford University Press
Trade Liberalization and Informality in the Rice Processing Industry | Trade Liberalization and India’s Informal Economy
P K Ghosh | B Hariss-White and A Sinha

BOOK CHAPTER | East West Books (Madras) Pvt. Ltd
Food and Nutritional Status of the Poor in India: A State Level Analysis | Towards Hunger Free India from Vision to Action
P K Ghosh, A Shariff and A Sharma | M S Swaminathan and P Medrano
2004

BOOK CHAPTER | National Institute for Educational Planning and Administration
Household Expenditure on Elementary Education: Implications of Cost Recovery Mechanisms | Financing Education in India
P K Ghosh, A Shariff and T Buragohain | J BG Tilak
2003

OPINION | The Financial Express
Covid-19 and the resilience of our household economy
Prabir K Ghosh  and Sumit Kumar
August 2020  |  NCAER

OPINION | Macrotrack
Savings 
Prabir K Ghosh  | Prabeer K Roy and Mythili Bhusnurmath
June 2013  |  NCAER

Education

  • MA Economics : Burdwan University, West Bengal, 1992
  • B.A (Hons.) Economics: Burdwan University, West Bengal,1989

Work Experience

  • September 2023-Present: Senior Fellow, NCAER
  • April 2018-August 2023: Fellow, NCAER
  • November 2013-March 2018: Associate Fellow, NCAER
  • November 2010-October 2013: Senior Research Fellow and Head-Field Operation at NCAER Centre for Macro Consumer Research (NCAER-CMCR)
  • January 2006-October 2010: Associate Fellow at NCAER, New Delhi
  • November 2004-December 2005: Jr. Economist at International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), New Delhi
  • April 2003-October 2004: Associate Fellow at NCAER, New Delhi
  • March 2000-March 2003: Research Assistant at NCAER, New Delhi
  • February 1996 – February 2000: Research Associate at NCAER, New Delhi
  • March 1994-January 1996: Research Investigator at EIT, Kolkata