Shankkar Aiyar

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Shankkar Aiyar is an Indian political economy analyst, author, and columnist. He is currently a visiting fellow at the IDFC Institute where he focuses on economics and public policy. He has been the Wolfson Cheving Fellow at Cambridge University where he specialized in the lifecycles of emerging markets. [1] [2]

Aiyar's news articles in 1991, about the Indian government's pledging of its gold reserves internationally, and its subsequent plans to ship bullion outside the country, is believed to be one of the contributing factors to drawing international and Indian attention to India's impending Balance of Payments economic crisis, and subsequently accelerating efforts toward the 1991 Economic Liberalization of India. [3] [4]

Aiyar is a contributor to The New Indian Express , Firstpost , and BloombergQuint . [5] [6] [7] He has been the recipient of the Observer Business Journalist of the year in 1992, [8] and the Pole Star award for Best Feature in Business Journalism, in 2003. [8]

Books

As an author, Aiyar's focus is at the intersection of economics and public policy. Some of his books include:

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References

  1. ↑ "Shankkar Aiyar". IDFC Institute.
  2. ↑ Thirani, Neha (23 October 2012). "A Conversation with: Author Shankkar Aiyar".
  3. ↑ "YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  4. ↑ Sitapati, Vinay (27 June 2016). Half - Lion: How P.V. Narasimha Rao Transformed India. Penguin Random House India Private Limited. pp. Chapter 7, Rescuing the Economy 1991–92. ISBN   978-93-86057-72-3.
  5. ↑ "Shankkar Aiyar (opinion columns)". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
  6. ↑ "Articles by Shankkar Aiyar". Firstpost. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
  7. ↑ "Shankkar Aiyar (list of articles)". BloombergQuint. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
  8. 1 2 "Shankkar Aiyar" (PDF). PoleStar Foundation. 2003. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
  9. ↑ Reviews of Accidental India:
  10. ↑ Saurabh Kumar (10 September 2017). "Shankkar Aiyar's Aadhaar is definitive story of unique identity project; here is book review". Financial Express. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
  11. ↑ Reviews of Gated Republic:


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