Qualifications
Ph.D in Economics, Vidyasagar University, India
M.Phil in Economics, Burdwan University, India
MSc. in Economics, Vidyasagar University, India
B.Sc.(Hons) in Economics (with Physics and Mathematics), Calcutta University, India
DCA in Comp. Applications, DOE, India
Research Areas/Interest
Trade, Labour Relation and Development; Governance, Taxation and Informality; Anti-Dumping, FDI and Welfare; Openness and Regional Growth
Currently Teaching
Macroeconomics and International Economics
Contact Details
Room: S213
Phone: (679) 32 32706
Fax: (679) 323 2522
Email: maiti_d(at)usp.ac.fj
List of Publications
(I) Books and Edited Volume
(1) Reform, Productivity Growth and Formal Labour Market in India, Rutledge Publisher, London (forthcoming)
(2) The Informal Sector in India (Special Volume) Journal of South Asian Development, 2010 (Guest edited with K. Sen) vol. 5. No.1
(3) The Informal sector in South Asia: Organisational Dynamics, Institutional Determinants, Interlinkages and Development (Special Volume) Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 2010 (Guest edited with K. Sen), 52 (2)
(II) Journal Article (refereed)
(1) Maiti, D. and Mukherjee, D. (2013), “Governance, Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Welfare”, International Review of Economics and Finance, 27, 406-415.
(2) Maiti, D. and Mukherjee, A. (2013), “Trade Liberalisation, Outsourcing and Union Wage”, Labour Economics, (accepted for publication)
(3) Maiti, D. (2013), “Precarious Works in India: Trend and Emerging Issues”, American Behavioral Scientists, DOI: 10.1177/0002764212466247
(4) Maiti, D. and Chand, B.P. (2013), “Openness and Growth of Fijian Economy”, Journal of Pacific Studies, (forthcoming)
(5) Maiti, D. (2012), “Market Distortions and Productivity Growth with reference to India”, Economics Bulletin, 32(3), 2313-2319.
(6) Maiti, D. (2012), "Market Imperfections, Trade Reform and Total Factor Productivity Growth: Theory and Practices from India", Journal of Productivity Analysis, DOI 10.1007/s11123-012-0313-z
(7) Maiti, D. and Marjit, S. (2011), “Subcontracting, R&D and Labour Productivity – A Theoretical Explanation” (with S. Marjit), Journal of Economic Development, 36(3), 1-24.
(8) Maiti, D. and Mitra, A. (2011), Education, Vulnerability and Development”, Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, 16 (2), 199–211
(9) Maiti, D. and Sen, K. (2010), “The Informal Sector in India: A Means of Exploitation or Accumulation?”, Journal of South Asian Development, 5(1), 1-13
(10) Maiti, D. (2010), “Globalisation, Employment and Mobility – The South Asian Experience: A Review”, International Journal of South Asian Studies, 21(1)
(11) Marjit, S. and Maiti, D. (2010), “Informality and Productivity”, India Macroeconomic Annual, Annual Volume, pp. 131-72
(12) Maiti, D. and Marjit, S. (2008), “Trade Liberalization, Production Organization and Informal Sector in the Developing Countries”, The Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 17 (3), 445-53
(13) Maiti, D. (2008), “Organizational Morphology of Rural Manufacturing and its Dynamics in Liberalized India”, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 32 (4), 571-92
(14) Marjit, S., Kar, S. and Maiti, D. (2007), “Regional Trade Openness Index and Income Disparity - A New Methodology and the Indian Experiment”, Economic and Political Weekly, 24 (9). 757-69
(15) Marjit, D. and Maiti, S. (2006), “Politics and Contemporary Macroeconomy of India”, India Macroeconomics Annual, Annual Volume, 1-49
(16) Marjit, S. and Maiti, D. (2005), “Globalization, Reform and Informal Sector”, WIDER-UNU Research Paper RP12/ 2005, Helsinki, Finland
(17) Dutta, M. Roy, S., Maiti, D. and Saha, S. (2005), “Protecting India’s Forest: Effectiveness of Forest Protection Committees – Case of Southern West Bengal, India”, The International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, 12 (1), 66-78
(18) Dutta, M. Roy, S., Maiti, D. and Saha, S. (2004), “Forest Protection Polices and Local Benefits from Non-Timber Forest Produce: Lessons from West Bengal”, Economic and Political Weekly, 39 (6)
(19) Sau, S.N. and Maiti, D. (2001), “Trend of Production and Employment of Village Industries in India – An Analysis”, (with S.N.Sau), Vidyasagar University Journal of Economics, 8 (1),
(III) Chapter/Article in Book
(1) Maiti, D. (2012), “Bilateral Relation, Trade Flow and Regional Growth: A Study on Trade Relations of China and India with Mekong Region”, in P. De, Fostering Trade of Mekong-China and Mekong-India, Sage Publication (forthcoming)
(2) Maiti, D. (2012), “Delicensing and Pro-Poor Growth of India”, in Bhattacharyya, D.N. (ed.), Indian Economic Development – Contemporary Issue, Regal Publications, New Delhi
(3) Maiti, S., Kar, S. and Maiti, D. (2010), “Labour Market Institutions and Poverty – The Role of Informal Sector” in Bhaskar Dutta et al. (eds.), New and Enduring Themes in Development Economics, NY: World Scientific Press
(4) Maiti, D. and Marjit, S. (2006), “Globalization, Reform and Informal Sector”, in B. Guha-Khasnobis & Ravi Kanbur (eds.), Informal Labor Markets and Development, Palgrave-McMillan, Helsinki
(5) Maiti, D and Mondal, D. (2006), “Reform and Rural Industrialization: A Study on Production Organisation in India”, in R.R. Prasad and G. Rajanikanth (eds.), Rural Development and Social Change, Discovery Publishing House, New Delhi
(6) Maiti, D. and Mondal, D. (2004), “Development Finance of Panchayats: A Study of Eight Gram Panchayats in Purba and Paschim Medinipur Districts of West Bengal”, in Sau, S.N. (ed.), Issues of Participatory Decentralized Planning, Firma K.L.M, Kolkata
(7) Sau, S.N. and Maiti, D. (2002), “Impact of Economic Reform on Employment of Village Industries in India – An Analysis”, (with S.N.Sau), in Mathur, A. and Raikhy, S.P. (eds.), Economic Liberalisation and its Implications for Employment, Deep & Deep Publications, New Delhi
(IV) Working/Research paper
(1) Maiti, D. (2012), “Anti-Dumping, Competitiveness and Consumer Welfare: A Study on Commodity Prices with Special Reference to India”, SANEI Working Paper Series No. 12-07, South Asia Network of Economic Research Institutes, Dhaka; saneinetwork.net/Files/3008201204241412.07.DMaiti.pdf
(2) Maiti, D. and Chand, B.P. (2012), “Openness and Growth of the Fijian Economy”, Working Paper 2012/02, School of Economics, The University of the South Pacific, www.econ.fbe.usp.ac.fj/fileadmin/files/schools/ssed/economics/working_papers/2012_Working_Papers/WP01-Maiti_and_Biman-1.pdf
(3) Maiti, D. and Mukherjee, D. (2010), “Governance, Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Welfare”, Research Paper 2010-10, Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy, University of Nottingham, www.nottingham.ac.uk/gep/research/papers/2010/10-27.aspx
(4) Maiti, D. and Mukherjee, A. (2010), “Trade Liberalisation, Outsourcing and Union Wage”, Research Paper 2010-10, Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy, University of Nottingham, www.nottingham.ac.uk/gep/research/papers/2010/10-07.aspx
(5) Maiti, D. (2010), “Foreign Competition, Bi-sourcing and Union Wage Share” www.isid.ac.in/~pu/conference/dec_10_conf/Papers/DibyenduMaiti.pdf
(6) Maiti, D. and Marjit, S. (2010), “Regional Openness, Income Growth and Convergence of Indian States : 1980 -2005” (with S. Marjit), IEG Working Paper 304, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi
(7) Maiti, D. (2009), “Institution, Network and Industrialisation: Field Evidence on Flexibility and Fragmentation from India”, IPPG Discussion Paper 26, Consortium of Institutions for Pro-Poor Growth, University of Manchester, www.ippg.org.uk/papers/dp26.pdf
(8) Maiti, D. and Marjit, D. (2009), “The Institutional Determinants for Informalisation and its effects on Poverty and Growth, IPPG Discussion Paper 30, Consortium of Institutions for Pro-Poor Growth, University of Manchester, www.ippg.org.uk/papers/dp30.pdf
(9) Sen, K., Saha, B. and Maiti, D. (2009), “Trade Openness, Labour Institutions and Flexibilisation – Theory and Experiences in India” BWPI Working Paper 123, Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, ideas.repec.org/p/bwp/bwppap/12310.html
(10) Maiti, D. and Marjit, D. (2009), “Informal Wage and Formal Labour Productivity” (with S. Marjit), Working Paper 301, Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi
(11) Sen, S., Saha, B. and Maiti, D. (2008), “Liberalisation and Labour Market Dualism in Indian Organised Manufacturing” (with K. Sen and B. Saha), Seminar paper, IDPM, University of Manchester, 2008 and Conference Volume, International Conference on Informal Sector in South Asia, 27-28th July 2009
(12) Maiti, D. and Bönte, W. (2006), “Trade Reform, Vertical Contracts and Innovation of Developing Economy”, www.isid.ac.in/~planning/DibyenduMaiti.pdf and Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena, Germany
(13) Maiti, D. (2005) “Conflict Resolution Mechanism and Level of Forest Protection: A Study on Southern West Bengal in India”, Agragamee, Bhubaneswar
(14) Maiti, D. (2005), “Organisational Morphology of Rural Manufacturing in Liberalised India: A Case of West Bengal”, Working Paper 371, Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram
(15) Maiti, D. and Mondal, D. (2004), “Growth and Fluctuation of Development Finance of Panchayats: A Study of Eight Gram Panchayats in Purba and Paschim Medinipur Districts of West Bengal”, Occasional Paper No. 19, Department of Economics with Rural Development, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal.
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