Ravindra Dholakia

Ravindra H Dholakia is a professor in Economics area at The INDIAN Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Education

He is an alumni of the Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda and holds a Doctorate in Economics, with specialisation in "Regional Disparities in Economic Growth in India". He is also a post-doctoral fellow at University of Toronto.

Career

Prof.Dholakia joined IIM A in 1985. Prior to that, he was senior faculty at M.S.University and senior economist at Sardar Patel Institute of Economic and Social Research, Ahmedabad.

He was a member of the Sixth Central Pay Commission, appointed by the Government of India, from October 2006 to April 2008. Currently he is a member of the "High Level Committee on Estimation of Savings and Investment in India".

Papers Published

Prof.Dholakia has written AbOUT 23 monographs, 13 books and more than 100 research papers, which have been published in journals of national and international repute. To name a few:

• "Is India’s Federal Debt Sustainable? Revisiting an Old Debate", (Co-author), Economic & Political Weekly, Vol. 40, No.10, March 5-11, 2005, pp.951–959.

• "Regional Imbalance under Federal Structure: A Comparison of Canada and India", Vikalpa – The Journal for Decision Makers, Vol. 31, October – December 2006, pp.1–8.

• "Fiscal Space with States and the Sixth Pay Commission", (Co-author), Economic and Political Weekly, XLIII, No.19, May 10-16, 2008, pp.16–20.