Area of Specialisation

• Public Economics: Expenditure Planning and Management: Fiscal Policy analysis, Program Performance Budgeting’ and Measurement of Performance

• Industrial Economics: Industrial Policy, Industrial Subsidies and Tax concessions

• Ph.D Public Finance: University of Mysore (Through ISEC) 1990

• M.A. Economics S.K.University, Anantapur

Articles

• Government Financing of Social Sector during the reform phase: Some Insights from Southern States, 2005.  in G.K Karanth ed Dimensions of Social Development: Status Challenges and Prospects. ISEC Monograph Series 8,  ISEC, Bangalore.

• Deprivation: The Social Dimension (With G.S Aurora), 2004 in Poverty and Economic Reforms: The Social Concerns, Academic Foundation with ISEC, New Delhi.

• Fiscal Distress in Karnataka: Some Issues, 2003, Journal of Social and Economic Development, Institute for Social  and Economic Change,Vol.5 No.2.

• Housing Subsidies in Karnataka 2003, in Govinda Rao (ed) Volume and Composition of Budgetary Subsidies in Karnataka, Monograph, ISEC, Bangalore

• Industrial Incentives in Karnataka  2003, in Govinda Rao (ed) Volume and Composition of Budgetary Subsidies in Karnataka, Monograph, ISEC, Bangalore.

• Industrial Co-Operatives: Problems and Prospects in Abdul Aziz and Mahadeva (ed) 2002 Co-operation at Cross Roads, Chetana Publishers, Mysore.

• Infrastructure in the Industrial Development of Karnataka, in Srinivasa Gowda and D.T.Nanje Gowda (ed) Economic Development of Karnataka, Leading Issues 1999,The Local Advisory Committee, 81 Annual Conference of the Indian Economic Association, Bangalore.

• "Karnataka Rajya Hana Kasu" in Abdul Aziz (ed) (1997), Karnataka Arthikathe, Kannada University, Hampi.

• Role of Infrastructure in the Industrial Development of Karnataka: A District Level Analysis, Artha Vijnana, Vol. XXXIX, No. 2. June, 1997.

• "Employment in the Manufacturing Sector in Karnataka: Reflections on the New Industrial Policy" (with Prof M Prahladachar), The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, April-June 1996.

• "New Economic Policy, Voluntary Organisation and Rural Poor" (with Aurora, G S, Sashikala S and Smriti Srinivas) Economic and Political Weekly, April 2, 1994, Vol.XXIX, No.14.

• Credit Delivery in Rural Karnataka: A Case Study of     Chickmagalur District" Journal of Rural Development, March 1993, Vol.12(3), pp.301-317. 

• "A Review of Central Government Expenditure", Artha Vijnana, Vol. XXXIV, No. 3,  pp.283-299, Sept. 1992.

• "Some Researchable Issues in the Economics of Indian Telecommunications" (with Vinod Vyasulu), Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research, August, 1991.

Working Papers

•  Who Benefits from Industrial Incentives: A Study of Capital Investment Subsidy in Karnataka.  ISEC 2003 (No 124)

• Reducing Fiscal Deficit: Canadian Experiment and Lessons for India, ISEC 2003, (No 127)

• Electronics Industry: Status and Prospects (with Prof M Prahladachar), ISEC, 1996.

• Industrial Potential in Karnataka (with Prof M Prahladachar) ISEC, 1996.

•  Credit Delivery in Rural Karnataka: A case of Chickmagalur District, ISEC, 1992.

• Shastri Indo-Canadian Fellowship, visited the Carleton University  1997-1998

• Consultant, USAID REFORM project