Binoy Goswami

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Assistant Professor (Senior Grade)

South Asian University

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Brief Biography

Binoy Goswami holds a Master’s Degree (2005) and a PhD (2013) in Economics from Gauhati University. He is currently a senior assistant professor in the Faculty of Economics, South Asian University (SAU), New Delhi. He has about 15 years of teaching and research experience. One student has been awarded MPhil degree and 5 other students are working on their doctoral thesis under his supervision. He was awarded the Prof. M. J. Manohar Rao Award for the year 2012 for the best paper presented by a young economist during the 49th Annual Conference of The Indian Econometric Society.

Field of Interests

My research interests includes agricultural economics, environmental economics, energy economic and international trade.

Fields of Expertise

  • Agricultural Economics
  • Environmental Management
  • Food Security, Safety and Certification
  • Markets, Value Chain and Trade
  • Natural Resource Management
  • Renewable Energy
  • Resource Economics
  • Rural Development

Current Research Projects

Role of factor markets in small holder agricultural economies

Key Publications

  • Indian Agriculture after the Green Revolution: Changes and Challenges, edited (first editor) with M P Bezbaruah and Raju Mandal, Routledge: Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK and New York, USA, 2018.
  • Economic Analysis of Agrarian Institutions: The Case of Tenancy, Orient Black Swan, 2017.
  • “Energy Efficiency in South Asia: Trends and Determinants” Energy, ttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2021.119762
  • “Covid-19 pandemic and economic performances of the states in India” Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol. 69, No. 3, pp. 461-479, 2021
  • “Rental Market of Pump-sets in the Central and Western Parts of Nepal Plains” Asia Pacific Journal of Rural Development, Vol. 30, No. 1-2, pp. 226-243, 2020.
  •  “India’s Revealed Comparative Advantages in Merchandise Trade with Country Groups at Different Levels of Development” Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol.39, No. 2, pp. 377-97
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  • “Revisiting the Tenancy-Inefficiency Question with an Inter-temporal Optimisation Framework: Insights from the Agrarian Set-up of Assam Plains in Eastern India” Journal of Social and Economic Development, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 256-273, 2018.
  • “Determinants of Household’s Choice of Fuel for cooking in Developing Countries: Evidence from Nepal” Journal of Development Policy and Practice, Vol.3, No.2, pp. 137-154, 2018.
  •  “India’s Comparative Advantages in Services Trade” Eurasian Economic Review, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp.323-342, 2018.
  •  “Comparing Public and Private Agricultural Extension Services: Insights from the Brahmaputra Valley of Assam” Economic and Political Weekly (Special Article in Review of Rural Affairs), Vol. LII, No. 52, pp. 72-80, 2017.
  • “Farm Business Income Generation across Land Size Classes and Land Tenure Status: Findings from a Field Study in Assam Plains” Agricultural Economics Research Review, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 69- 82, 2016.
  • “Overcoming Farm Size Induced Constraints through Endogenous Institutional Innovation: Findings from a Field Study in Assam Plains, India” Economics Bulletin, Vol. 36, No.1, pp. 411-428, 2016.
  • “Does Tenure Status Affect the Adoption of Land Productivity Enhancing Practices and Input Intensities? Evidence from Assam Plains in India’s Northeast”, Journal of Land and Rural Studies, Vol. 3, No.1, pp. 29-44, 2015.
  • “Status of the Implementation of the MGNREGA in Assam: All is not Well”, Journal of Rural Development, Vol.33, No. 2, pp.173-182, 2014.
  • “Incidence, Forms and Determinants of Tenancy in the Agrarian Set –Up of the Assam Plains”, Economic and Political Weekly (Special Article), Vol. XLVIII, No. 42, October, pp. 60-68, 2013.
  • “Do Sharecroppers Undersupply Effort? Evidence from a Farm Level Survey in Assam Plains”, Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. XXXVI, No. 2 June, pp. 43-76, 2013.
  • “Social Sector Expenditures and their Impacts on Human Development: The Indian Experience”, Indian Journal of Human Development, Vol.5, No.2, pp. 365-85, 2011.

Postal Address

C-98, 2nd Floor, Pocket C, Sarita Vihar, New Delhi-110076, India.

Phone Number

+91 9582869316

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