As Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India (1993–2001) Shankar Acharya was deeply involved in the economic reforms of the 1990s. He later served as a Member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council (2001–2003) and the Twelfth Finance Commission (2004). Earlier he worked in the World Bank, where he led the World Development Report team for 1979 and was Research Adviser to the Bank. He has authored eight books and numerous scholarly articles.

Currently he is Honorary Professor and Board Member of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER). He also serves on the boards of other national research organisations, some corporates, the National Security Advisory Board and the Reserve Bank’s Advisory Committee on Monetary Policy. Dr Acharya has a PhD from Harvard University and a BA from Oxford.

1. Global Financial Crisis: An Asian View
2. Spring Fever
3. G8 vs G20
4. Exit Policy and All That
5. Wolf’s World
6. Grecian Summer of Discontent
7. Retreat of the Master?
8. Uncertain Times for Global Economic Governance

1. A Cloudy Outlook
2. Growth and Equity
3. Growth Complacency?
4. New Threats to Growth
5. Agriculture: Be Like Gujarat

1. Priorities for the New Government
2. Stability, Security and Stasis?
3. The Leviathan Returns
4. Policy Continuity at the Reserve Bank
5. Ten Myths of Indian Economic Policy
6. Twelfth Plan Approach

1. Where are the Jobs?
2. Resurrecting Public Health Services
3. Employment Problems
4. India’s Health
5. UPA’s Wrong Approach to Inclusion

1. The Non-fiscal Stimulus
2. Fiscal Stimulus or Fiscal Ruin?
3. A Flawed and Untimely Code
4. www.indiabudget 2010–11
5. Some Pre-budget Musings
6. Some Post-budget Reflections

1. BoP Deficit Widens But the Rupee Appreciates!
2. Indifference about the Big Rupee Appreciation?
3. Overvalued Rupee Fuels External Deficits
4. Currency Wars and Indian Policy
5. Strong Rupee Hurting Industrial Growth?

1. A Month to Remember?
2. Assessing Obama
3. Africa Rising