My research areas of specialization include public finance and economic development in South and Southeast Asia. I am currently interested in research on the impact of debt relief on growth in developing countries. Other research interests are in the areas of rural-urban migration as well as rural poverty in developing countries. I have published several articles in the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Economic Studies, Applied Economics Letters, and Studi Economici as well as the Journal of Developing Areas and Economia Internazionale/International Economics. I have served as referee for the Journal of Economics, the Journal of Contemporary Business Issues, the Annals of Tourism Research, and the Journal of Developing Areas as well as the Journal of Economic Studies and the Journal for Studies in Economics and Econometrics (SEE).

I have also reviewed thirty-nine books: Readings in Public Finance, 2^nd edition, by Samuel H. Baker and Catherine S. Elliott, Principles of Economics, 4^th edition, by Karl E. Case and Ray C. Fair, Macroeconomics, 2^nd edition, by Roger Farmer, Control of Public Money by A. Premchand, Sustainable Development in Asia, America and Europe with Global Applications by Jian-Ming Zhou, Holding Their Ground: Secure Land Tenure for the Urban Poor in Developing Countries, edited by Alain Durand-Lasserve and Lauren Royston, Rural Planning in Developing Countries: Supporting Natural Resource Management and Sustainable Livelihoods by Barry Dalal-Clayton, David Dent, and Olivier Dubois, Poverty and Democracy: Self-Help and Political Participation in Third World Cities, edited by Dirk Berg-Schlosser and Norbert Kersting, Land Policies for Growth and Poverty Reduction, by Klaus Deininger, the World Bank and Oxford University Press, Washington, D.C., Land and Schooling: Transferring Wealth Across Generations, by Agnes R. Quisumbing, Jonna P. Estudillo, and Keijiro Otsuka, Johns Hopkins (2004), Urban Futures: Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction, edited by Nabeel Hamdi, Urban Management Series, ITDG Publishing, Rugby, United Kingdom (2005), Ending Global Poverty: a guide to what works, by Stephen C. Smith, Palgrave Macmillan (2005), World Development Report 2006: Equity and Development, World Bank/Oxford , Fighting poverty: the development-employment link, ed. by Rizwanul Islam.  L. Rienner (2006), Macroeconomics, 2nd edition, by R. Glenn Hubbard and Anthony Patrick O’Brien, Prentice Hall (2008), Urban Economics, 7th edition, by Arthur O’Sullivan, McGraw-Hill (2009), Human Well-Being: Concept and Measurement, ed. by Mark McGillivray, Palgrave Macmillan (2007), Microeconomics, 2nd edition, by R. Glenn Hubbard and Anthony Patrick O’Brien, Prentice Hall (2008), Global Trade and Poor Nations: The Poverty Impacts and Policy Implications of Liberalization, ed. by Bernard M. Hoekman and Marcelo Olarreaga, Brookings Institution Press, Washington, D.C. (2007), Health, Economic Development and Household Poverty: From Understanding to Action, ed. By Sara Bennett, Lucy Gilson, and Anne Mills, Routledge International Studies in Health Economics, New York, N.Y. (2008), Low income, social growth, and good health: a history of twelve countries, by James C. Riley, California/Milbank Memorial Fund (2008), Social Protection for the Poor and the Poorest, ed. by Armando Barrientos and David Hulme, Palgrave Studies in Development, New York, N.Y. (2008), Global Development 2.0: Can Philanthropists, the Public, and the Poor Make Poverty History? ed. by Lael Brainard and Derek Chollet, Brookings (2008), Moving Out of Poverty, Volume 2: Success from the Bottom Up, by Deepa Narayan, Lant Pritchett, and Soumya Kapoor, Palgrave Macmillan (2009), Flat Broke in the Free Market: How Globalization Fleeced Working People, by Jon Jeter, Norton (2009),Debt Relief and Beyond: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead, ed. by Carlos A. Primo Braga and Dorte Domeland, World Bank (2009), What Works for the Poorest?: Poverty Reduction Programmes for the World's Extreme Poor, ed. by David Lawson et al. Practical Action Publishing (2010), Debates on the Measurement of Global Poverty, ed. by Sudhir Anand et al. Oxford University Press (2010), Population and Development, by Tim Dyson Zed Books (2010), The Critical development studies handbook: tools for change, ed. by Henry Veltmeyer. Pluto (2011), Divided We Stand:Why Inequality Keeps Rising. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (2011),Climate change, disaster risk, and the urban poor: cities building resilience for a changing world, ed. by Judy L. Baker, World Bank (2012), Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails, by Christopher J. Coyne, Stanford Economics and Finance (2013), Getting to Scale: How to Bring Development Solutions to Millions of Poor People, ed. by Laurence Chandy et al. Brookings (2013), Betrayed: Politics, Power, and Prosperity, by Seth D. Kaplan, Palgrave Macmillan (2013),Out of Poverty: Sweatshops in the Global Economy (Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society), by Benjamin Powell, Cambridge University Press (2014),Turbulence: A Corporate Perspective on Collaborating for Resilience, ed. by Roland Kupers, Amsterdam University Press (2014), Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry: Money, Discipline, and the Surplus Population, by Susanne Soederberg, Routledge (2014), Unexpected Outcomes: How Emerging Economies Survived the Global Financial Crisis, ed. by Carol Wise, Leslie Elliott Armijo, and Saori N. Katada, Brookings (2014), and Development economics: the role of agriculture in development, by P.N. Junankar, Palgrave Macmillan (2016).

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