Curriculum Vitae: Tara S. Nair
Education
M.Phil (Applied Economics) and Ph.D (Economics) degrees from Centre for Development Studies,Trivandrum (affiliated to the JawaharlalNehruUniversity, New Delhi).
Was a Visiting Scholar at REGARDS, Maison des Suds, University of Bordeaux III, France and Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford (as part of the South Asian Visiting Scholars Programme).
Work
Associate Professor (Media Economics) with the Mudra Institute of Communication, Ahmedabad (MICA).
Areas of research: Political economy of Indian media, Microfinance.
Select Publications
“Coping with Global Trade Agreements: Legal and Regulatory Compliance and Emerging Small Firm Strategies in India’s Pharmaceutical Industry”, in Faure Y.-A., L.Kennedy and P. Labazee (eds.),Productions locales et globalisation dans les economies emergentes. Bresil, Inde, Mexique, Paris: Karthala (co-authored; forthcoming).
“Global Regulatory Imperatives and Small Firms: Case of the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry”,in Carlo Pietrobelli (ed.),Linking Local and Global Economies, London: Routledge, 2004. (co-authored)
“Growth and Structural Structural Transformation of Newspaper Industry in India:An Empirical Investigation”, Economic and Political Weekly,Vol. 38, No. 39, 2003.
“The Indian Sub-continent”, in Nicholas Cull, David Culbert, and David Welch (Eds.), Propaganda and Mass Persuation: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500 to the Present,California: ABC-CLIO, Inc. 2003.
“SMEs in a Globalising Economy: A Case from India”. Espace et territoire, January-March 2001.
“Meeting the Credit Needs of Micro Enterprise Sector: Issues in Focus”. In Amitabh Kundu and Alakh N. Sharma (Eds.), Informal Sector in India: Perspectives and Policies, Institute for Human Development, New Delhi, 2001.
Also published in The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, July - September 1998.
”Gujarat Earthquake Policy Prepared in Haste”, Economic and Political Weekly, March 10-16, 2001 (co-authored)
“Institutionalising Microfinance in India: An Overview of Strategic Issues”, Economic and Political Weekly, January 27 - February 2, 2001.
“Press and Technological Change: The Indian Experience”, Working Paper No.114, Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad, April 2000.
“Rural Financial Intermediation and Commercial Banks: Review of Recent Trends”, Economic and Political Weekly, January 29 - February 4, 2000.
Also published as Working Paper No. 112, March 1999, Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad.
Recent Seminar/ Conference presentations
“Microfinance and Vulnerability: Insights from an Impact Study”. Paper presented at the Microfinance India 2008 Conference organised by CARE India,New Delhi, 24-26 February, 2004.
“Dealing with Vulnerability: Comparing Microfinance with Informal Financial Service Providers”. Paper presented at the seminar Microfinance and Empowerment, organised by the French Institute of Pondicherry, India and Laboratoire Environnement et Population, IRD-France, 6-8 January, 2004.
“Assessing the Impact of Indian Microfinance: A Macro Perspective”. Paper presented at the Meeting on Micro-Finance (What Means and Ways for Micro-Finance for What Impacts?)organised by the French Institute of Pondicherry, India and Laboratoire Environnement et Population, IRD-France, 9-11 January, 2003.
“Micro Enterprise Finance and Rural Development: Issues in the Context of Policy”. Seminar presented at the Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, 7 August, 2002.
“Growth and Structural Transformation of Newspaper Industry in India: An Empirical Investigation”. Paper presented at the 5th World Media Economics Conference, Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, Turku, Finland, 9-11 May, 2002.
“Abating Poverty and Engendering Development through Group Approach: Case from Western India”. Seminar presented at UMR-REGARDS, Maison des Suds, University of Bordeaux, France, 12 November, 2001.
“Democratisation, Technological Dynamism and the Media: the Indian Press in Transition”. Seminar presented under the Contemporary South Asia Seminar Series, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, 18 October, 2001.
“Global Regulatory Imperatives and Small Firms: Case of the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry”(co-authored). Paper presented at the International Workshop on Small Enterprises in Global Markets: Internationalisation, Clustering and Innovation, organised by the European Association of Development Institutes and held at the Department of Economics and Business Studies, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy, 22-24 March , 2001.
“Evolution and Growth of Indian Press: Analysis of Trends since the 1960s”. Seminar presented at the Nabakrushna Chaudhury Centre for Development Studies, Bhubaneswar, 7 March, 2000.