Krishna Mazumdar has worked at the Indian Statistical Institute since 1980 as a faculty staff in Economics. Her major areas of research include socioeconomic problems, cross-country studies, development economics, growth economics, and environmental economics. She engages in research and surveys; serves as principal investigator on small and large projects; teaches postgraduate and undergraduate students; guides PhD students; presents papers at international and national conferences; publishes internationally; serves as an editorial board member of three international journals; and reviews papers for international journals.
Education
Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics, Calcutta University.
Publications
Books
Life Expectancy at Birth—Half Century: Changes, Causes and Consequences.
New York: NOVA Science Publishers, Forthcoming
Performances of Asia-Pacific Countries: A New Approach. New York: NOVA Science
Publishers, October 2009.
Determinants of Human Well-being. New York: NOVA Science Publishers, 2003.
Human Well-being: Socio-Economic Indicators, A Global Study.
Delhi: SHIPRA Publications, October 2000.
Patterns of Socio-Economic Development. New Delhi: Inter-India Publications, 2000.
Human Capital Formation: A Study of Unaccounted Components. New Delhi: Mittal
Publications, 1991.
Papers
Socio-economic factors determining adult literacy in developing countries. (2005). Journal of Social Economics, 32, 98-120.
A new approach to Human Development Index. (2003). Review of Social Economy, 61, 535-549.
Do standards of living converge? (2003). Social Indicators Research, 64, 29-50.
A note on cross-country convergence in standard of living. (2002). Applied Economics Letters, 9, 87-90.
Divergence and convergence of international development: A socio-economic approach. (2002). In Glatzer W. (Ed.). Rich and Poor. Disparities, Perceptions and Concomitants. New York: Springer, pp.59-72.
Kolkata—The City of Wetlands. (2002). In Mukherjee, M., Chattopadhay K. (Eds.) Kolkata—The City of Wetlands. Department of Fisheries, Government of West Bengal, pp.168-208.
Measuring human well-being of the countries: Achievement and Improvement Indices. (2002). In Datt R. (Ed.) Human Development and Economic Development, New Delhi: Deep & Deep.
Improvements in life expectancy: 1960-1995. (2001). Social Indicators Research, 55, 303-328.
Multivariate analysis of quality of life in Indian Cities. (2001). Indian Journal of Regional Science, 33, 115-120.
Human well-being of the countries: Achievement and improvement indices. (2001). In Singer, H. (Ed.). Social Development. Delhi: BR Publishing Co. (in honour of A.K Sen).
Measuring human well-being of the countries: Welfare, choice and development. (2001). Ray, B. (Ed.). New Delhi: Kanishka Publishers, Distributors, pp. 56-85.
Causal flow between human well-being and per capita gross domestic product. (2000). Social Indicators Research 50, 297-313.
Inter-country inequality in social indicators of development. (2000). Social Indicators Research, 49, 335-345.
Divergence and Convergence of International Development: A Socio-economic Approach: Conference Proceedings of the Rich and Poor Conference (ISA-Working Group 6: Social Indicators and Social Reporting), Berlin 13th–14th October 2000.
A Multi-Variate Analysis of Urban Quality of Life in One-Million-Plus Cities of India. (2000). Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Quality of Life in Cities, Singapore, March, Vol. 2, pp. 511-517.
Service Sector and Economic Development. (2000). In Sen R.K. (Ed.) Socio-Economic Development in the 21st Century, New Delhi: Deep & Deep Publications.
Structural changes in selected agricultural economics of South and South-East Asia 1960-90. (2000). In Ray, B. (Ed.). Socio-Economic Development in India, New Delhi: Mohit Publications.
Measuring well-beings of the developing countries: 1960-1990. (1999). Social Indicators Research, 1999, 47, 1-60.
Inter-Country Inequality in Social Indicators of Development: CD published in XIIth World Congress of the International Economic Association,, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 23-27, 1999.
Pairwise Comparisons of Social Development of Selected Countries: 1960 to 1994: An Application of D2-Statistics. (1998). Social Indicators Research, 1998, 44, 155-194.
Criteria for identification of rural poor: Preliminary results based on a survey. (with Ashok Rudra, Nikhilesh Bhattacharya, and Snigdha Chakrabarti). In S. Balakrishna and K. Hanumantha Rao (Eds.). Database on Rural poverty Indicators, Hyderabad: National Institute of Rural Development, 1998.
Quality of Life in Developing Countries. (1998). Conference Proceedings of the First International Conference on Quality of Life in Cities, Singapore, March, Vol. 2, pp. 355-375.
Measuring well-beings of the Countries: Achievement and Improvement Indices: Conference Proceedings of the Indian Economic Association Conference, Bangalore, December 26-28, 1998.
Patterns of Inter-Country Inequality in Social Development: 1960-1990. (1997). Conference Volume, Indian Economic Association, December, pp. 255-264.
An analysis of causal flow between social development and economic growth. (1996). American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 55, 361-383.
Level of development of a country: a possible new approach. (1996). Social Indicators Research, 38, 245-278.
Criteria for identification of rural poor: Preliminary results based on a survey. (with Ashok Rudra, Nikhilesh Bhattacharya and Snigdha Chakrabarti). (1996). In S.K. Ghosh (Ed.). Trade, Welfare and Development. Kolkata: Bangiya Arthaniti Parishad, pp. 37-59.
Behaviour of Services Sector in India: 1960-1990. (1996). In B. Ray (Ed.). Socio-Economic Transformation in India. New Delhi: Kanishka Publishers and Distributors, pp. 353-362.
Patterns of Inter-regional Inequality: A Socio-Economic Approach. (1995). (with Amita Majumder and Snigdha Chakrabarti). Social Indicators Research, 34, 325-338.
Classification of countries: a socio-economic approach. (1995). Social Indicators Research, 34, 261-273.
Disproportional growth of services sector in India: 1960-1990. (1995). Indian Economic Journal, Special Issue, 43, 103-109.
Inter-state disparities in per capita state domestic product in India: 1960-1985. (1993). Indian Journal of Regional Science, 25, 13-17.
An alternative methodology of measuring inter-state disparities. (1990). Journal of Income and Wealth, 12, 27-32.
Behaviour of relationship between basic needs performance and per capita GNP in developing low income countries. (1989). Artha Shastra, 8, 27-32.
Relative position of selected Asian countries in the basic needs achievement. (1988). United Nations Bulletin for Asia and Pacific, December, XXXIX, 56-59.
An analysis of inter-state and inter-class consumer price indices in India. (1988). Artha Shastra, 7, 117-126.
Inter-state variation in human resources and economic development. (1987). Artha Shastra, 6, 17-23.
Wage share in a developing economy with special reference to India. (1987). (with Pradeep Mazumdar). Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 1987, XXIX, C1-C14.
Variation of national income with components of generalized capital. (1083). (with K.C. Majumder and Manabendra Paul). Journal of Income and Wealth, 7, 150-159.
Changes in structures of urbanization of big cities in India: An inter-sectoral comparative analysis. (1983). (with Biswa Nath Bhattacharya). Indian Journal of Regional Science, 15, 1-18.
Inter-state variations in the purchasing power of rupee. (1982). Journal of Income and Wealth, July, 104-111.
An inter-class time series analysis in sharing gains in productivity of manufacturing industries. (1982). Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 1982, XXIV, C1-C19.
Presentations at Conferences
Performances of Asia-Pacific Countries: 1975 – 2005: XVIIth World Congress of Sociology of the International Sociological Association, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 11-17, 2010.
Life Expectancy at Birth: Proposed Measure for Human Well-being: 9th ISQOLS Conference, Florence (Italy), July, 2009.
Education and Quality of Life: Cross Country Analysis: 8th ISQOLS Conference, California (USA), December 6 -9, 2007.
Genuine Well-being Index—A Possible New Approach: 8th ISQOLS Conference, California (USA), December 6 -9, 2007.
Quality of Life of the People Living in and around Wetlands in India (with Guddi Tiwary: 8th ISQOLS Conference, California (USA), December 6-9, 2007.
Human Well-being Index—A Possible New Approach: 9th Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics Conference, New Delhi, December 15-18, 2006.
Quality of Life in Asia-Pacific Countries: 1975 – 2000: 6th ISQOLS Conference, Philadelphia (USA), November 10-13, 2004.
Determinants of Human Well-Being in Developing Countries: 5th ISQOLS Conference, Frankfurt (Germany), July 20-24, 2003.
Relations between Economic Growth and Social Improvement: 5th ISQOLS Conference, Frankfurt (Germany), July 20-24, 2003.
Human Development Index: A Possible New Approach: XVth World Congress of the International Sociology Association, Brisbane, July 6-13, 2002.
Divergence and Convergence of International Development: A Socio-economic Approach: Rich and Poor Conference (International Sociological Association-Working Group 6: Social Indicators and Social Reporting), Berlin, October 13-14, 2000.
A Multivariate Analysis of Urban Quality of Life in One-Million-Plus Cities of India: Second International Conference on Quality of Life in Cities, Singapore, March 8-10, 2000.
Inter-Country Inequality in Social Indicators of Development: XIIth World Congress of the International Economic Association,, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 23-27, 1999.
Quality of Life in Developing Countries: First International conference on Quality of Life in Cities, Singapore, March 4-6, 1998.
Measuring Well-beings of the Countries: Achievement and Improvement Indices: Indian Economic Association Conference, Bangalore, December 26-28, 1998.
Patterns of inter-country inequality in social indicators of development: 1960-90: Indian Economic Association Conference, Hyderabad, December 27-29, 1997.
Service sector and economic development. Fourth International Conference on Development and Future Studies, Bangi, Malaysia, September 2-4, 1997.
Inter-country inequality in social indicators of development: test of Kuznets' inverted-U hypothesis. International Conference on Economic Theory and Applications, Antalaya, Turkey, June 16-21, 1997.
Patterns of structural changes in agricultural countries of South and South-East Asia: 1960 to 1994: 29th Annual International Conference of Regional Sciences, Delhi, January, 1997.
An alternative methodology of measuring inter-sectoral interstate disparity in per capita state domestic product: Conference of the Indian Association for Research in National Income and Wealth, IARNIW Calcutta, 1989.
Wage share in a developing economy—with special reference to India: Labour Association Conference, 1987.
Inter-country inequality in development indicators: 24th Indian Econometric Conference, 1987.
Role of tertiary sector in economic development with special reference to India: IARNIW Conference, Calcutta, 1983.
Variation of national income with components of generalized capital (with K.C. Majumder and M. Paul): IARNIW Conference, Calcutta, 1983.
Inter-state variation in the purchasing power of rupee. IARNIW Conference, Bhubaneswar, 1982.
An inter-class time series analysis in sharing gains in productivity of manufacturing industries (with B.N. Bhattacharya): Indian Labour Conference, 1981.
Measurement of the degree of urbanization with special reference to India: Urban Conference, Calcutta, 1981.
Changes in structure of urbanization of big cities in India: An inter-sectoral comparative analysis (with B.N. Bhattacharya): Urban Conference, Calcutta, 1981.
Relationship between labour force structure and degree of urbanization in India: Urban Conference, Calcutta, 1980.
Externally Funded and Nonfunded Projects
Valuation of Wetlands in India: Funded by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Governmenmt of India, Report sent February 2008.
Environmental Conservation and Valuation of East Calcutta Wetlands (with Dr. Kunal Chattopadhyay): World Bank-financed Project (1999 - 2000): Report sent November, 2000.
Benchmarking Project on Quality of Life in Cities: Report published March 2000, Singapore.
Projects
Externally Funded
2008Principal Investigator of Valuation of Ecological Services of Wetlands in India, funded by the government of India
1998-2003Member of the Project Team World Bank Aided India Environmental Management Capacity Building Technical Assistance Project
1999-2000 Environmental Conservation and Valuation of East Calcutta Wetlands (with Dr. Kunal Chattopadhyay): World Bank-financed Project
1998-2000Project Collaborator Benchmarking Project on Quality of Life in Cities (International Project, Project Head Office: National University of Singapore, Singapore)
1992-1993 Study of Impact of Total Literacy Campaign in Birbhum and Bankura, West Bengal. Project Leaders: Professor Samir Guha Roy and Professor Atis Dasgupta (funded by the government of West Bengal).
1992 Evaluation of Total Literacy Campaign in North 24 Parganas, West Bengal. Project Leaders: Professor Samir Guha Roy and Professor Atis Dasgupta (funded by the Government of West Bengal).
1990-1992 Project leader, Identification of Rural Poor. The project was offered to Professor Nikhilesh Bhattacharya. He was Acting Director of the Indian Statistical Institute and stayed abroad most of the time, the project was mainly looked after by me (unded by the Planning Commission, government of India).
ISI Funded Projects
1988-1989 Behaviour of Selected Services: A Case Study of India and Selected Developing Countries (with Neela Mukherjee)
1983-1984 Estimation of Unaccounted Part of Human Capital Formation
1982-1983 Estimation of Generalized Capital
Editorial/Academic Projects
Editorial Board Member, Social Indicators Research (Publisher: Springer Science Publishers, formerly Kluwer Academic Publishers), since January 1998
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Research
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Environmental Protection
Reviewer
Ecological Economics
ocial Economy
ocial Indicators Research
Sociological Forum
Journal of Happiness
Member, Board of Directors, International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (2005-2006).
Chaired sessions
The Second International Conference on Quality of Life in Cities, Singapore, March 8-10, 2000
Appointed Track-Chair
6th ISQOLS Conference, Philadelphia (USA), November 10-13, 2004
8th ISQOLS Conference, California (USA), December 6-9, 2007
11th ISQOLS Conference, Venice (Italy) November 1-4, 2012
Moderator of two round tables: 6th ISQOLS Conference, Philadelphia (USA), November 10-13, 2004.
Panelist for Asia-Pacific Region for a Panel on Global and Regional trends in QOL: 6th ISQOLS Conference, Philadelphia (USA) November 10-13, 2004.
Faculty of Workshop 4 on Constructing QOL Indicators and Indexes: 6th ISQOLS Conference Philadelphia (USA) November 10-13, 2004.
Member of the Abstract Oversight Committee: 6th ISQOLS Conference, Philadelphia (USA), November 10-13, 2004.
Member of the International Planning Programme Committee: 6th ISQOLS Conference, Philadelphia (USA), November 10-13, 2004.
Listed International Referee for the Quality of Life Indicators, 1998-present.
Referee for Second International Conference on Quality of Life in Cities, Singapore, March 8-10, 2000.
Appointed judge for selecting best authors of the papers presented at the Second International Conference on Quality of Life in Cities, Singapore, March 8-10, 2000
Invited discussant, Human Development and Economic Growth, Annual Conference of the Association for Social Economy, Atlanta, January, 2002.
Invited panel discussant for the International Development Studies Conference, Bhubaneswar, January, 2002.
Seminars
University of Southampton (UK), 06.09.99
Institute of Social Studies (The Netherlands), 16.09.99
Leicester University (UK), 29.09.99
Consult, Professor Siv Gustafsson, Amsterdam University, for her PhD student Mr. Abu Ray Choudhury, 16.09.99
Guest speaker, One-week Training Programme on Environmental Economics for Government Officials at the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta,, 18.01.99 to 23.01.99, conducted under the World Bank Aided India Environmental Capacity Building Technical Assistance Project. Topic: Sustainable Development: Potential Reality or a Passing Fad?
Invited Lecture, Measurement of Well-being at the Academic Staff College (Department of Economics) of the University of Calcutta. Participants were college teachers in economics of the undergraduate colleges attached to the University of Calcutta, January, 1996.
Two papers presented at the Seminar on Women Studies, Department of Economics, University of Calcutta, April, 1996
Views on Population Policy: sent to the Member-Secretary of the Expert Group on the National Population Policy in response to letter No. NIHFW/DIR/1-31/93, Sept. 20, 1993 from the same.
Efficacy of Central Plan Grants for State Plans: a Cross-Sectional Analysis: Paper presented by A.K. Gour at the Conference on Planning and Economic Policy in India, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta 1993.
Conversation with Malaysian economists, 5.09.1997.
Professional Awards
Recipient of the Distinguished Fellow Award of the International Society for Quality of Life Studies in November, 2004.
PhD Supervisions
Topic: Social Development in India: An Interstate Analysis.
Candidate: Ms. Jaya Mukherjee
Co-Supervisor: Professor Sarmila Banerjee (Calcutta University)
Awarded in 2007 from Calcutta University
Topic: Growth of the Asia-Pacific Countries: A Multi-dimensional Welfare Approach
Candidate: Mr. Jadab Chandra Bhattacharya
Co-Supervisor: Professor Henk Folmer (Tilberg University and Wageningen University, The Netherlands)
Submitted to the Wageningen University (The Netherlands)
Association Memberships
International Society for Ecological Economics
Association for Social Economy
The Association for Comparative Studies
International Studies Association
International Sociological Association
International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (Life Member)
Indian Econometric Association (Life Member)
Indian Economic Association (Life Member)
Regional Science Association, India ((Life Member)
Indian Society for Labour Economics (Life Member)
Indian Statistical Institute (Life Member)
Bengal Economic Association (Life Member)
Indo-American Centre for International Studies (Life Member)
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