Krishnakumar S

Asst Professor Department of Economics, Sri Venkateswara CollegeUniversity of Delhiskkumar@svc.ac.inforkrishna@gmail.com

Courses currently taught: International Economics, Economic History, Macroeconomics and Indian economy

Honours and Awards K N Raj Fellowship for researchers and lecturers in economics. 2014 American Studies Institute Fellowship for lecturers in Economics /Political Economy

on US Political Economy and Global Economic System (June 15 to July 31 2006) Saccchivotamma Shastiabthapoorthi Gold Medal of University of Kerala 1992-93

Research and Publications

1. Global Imbalances and Bretton Woods II Postulate. CDS Working Paper 460. December 2014. http://cds.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/WP460.pdf

2. Global imbalances since the financial crisis: effects on emerging market economies. World Affairs-Journal of International Issues 2015

3.  Krishna Kumar, S and Ashis Taru Deb (2013) Is Microfinance the Panacea for Development? Lessons from the Developing World, Mudra Journal of Finance.

4. India's External Sector:Issues and Concerns in published as a chapter in Saksena (ed)India in the post liberalisation era : Challenges and prospects. Apple Books.2013

5. Obamacare and the Politics of Libertarian Right MAINSTREAM, VOL LI NO 44, OCTOBER 19, 2013

6. Fifty Years of Martin Luther King Jr’s "I Have A Dream" MAINSTREAM, VOL LI, NO 38, SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

7. Global Imbalances, Financial Globalisation and Decoupling. Article published in Mathrubhumi Year Book 2013

8. Krishnakumar Sulochana Panicker (2012): Migration, Remittances and Development in South Asia, Diaspora Studies, 5:2, 219-224 (Book review of Saman Kalegama’s book.)

9. Historical Origins of the Kerala Model. Thaliyola 201010. Agricultural Trade Liberalisation and Food security -Theoretical debates and

Empirical Issues-- in M S Bhat(ed) Poverty and Food Security in India.2005

11. Labour productivity, international labour standards and developing countries . Indian Journal of Labour Economics, June2003.

12. Sustainable Development and Decentralized Planning: the Kerala Experience, published in Arora (ed) Sustainable development-An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Research and Publishing House, New Delhi.

13. Keynes on Hot Money Flows , Economic and Political weekly, March 200314. Keynesian Policy in a Borderless World . Economic and Political Weekly, November

23-29,200315. Decentralised Planning and Sustainable Development- A Study With Special

Reference To Water Resource Harvesting at the Local level in the State of Kerala, Journal of Rural Development, vol. 21, July-Sept. 2002

16. M. Phil. dissertation submitted to Jawaharlal Nehru University on “The Endogenity of Money-A Survey”, 1997.

17. Papers due to be published in a forthcoming report, State of India’s Labour, by the Centre for Education and Communication, New Delhi on (i) The Migration of Indians to the Middle east-A case study of Varkala, Trivandrum and (ii)Women in Workforce-the Cashewnut Labour of Quilon’

Research projects

(a) Completed and submitted UGC-Minor Research Project on “The Impact of export Orientation in Agriculture in the Context of economic Reform.” 2010-12

(b) Co-investigator in the Delhi University Innovation project “To study the nutritional and socio-economic viability of consuming Olive oil versus Ground nut oil in the Indian context”. SVC 105.completed and submitted in 2012-13.

Research works – Papers presented

(a) Lecture delivered on "Ongoing Financial Crisis in the West: An Assessment" Department of International Studies, Christ University, Bangalore, 2 July 2015

(b) Presented a seminar on Banks and the Global Financial Crisis. Department of Economics, St Joseph’s college, Bangalore, 1st July 2015

(c) Presented a seminar on Trends in Contemporary Global Economy, University of Kerala. February 2015.

(d) Presented a seminar on Global Imbalances and Bretton Woods II Postulate at Centre for Development Studies , Thiruvananthapuram on 12th August 2014.

(e) Presented a paper on Migration, Remittances and the Kerala Model- the Two way Flows at the seminar organized by Department of Archives, Government of Kerala at Travancore House 14th September 2013

(f) Presented a paper on India's External Sector: Issues and Concerns at National Seminar organised by Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, University(Jan 2013) and published as a chapter in Saksena (ed)India in the post liberalisation era : challenges and prospects. Apple Books.2013 Collapse of the Rupee and the Neoliberal Response. Mainstream, VOL LI, No 30, July 13, 2013

(g) Presented  a paper on Financial Globalisation and Capital flows to Emerging Market Economies at a seminar organized at Department of Economics, Jamia Milia Islamia. 11 September 2013

(h) Invited speaker at the Sikkim Central University, Gangtok. The three events were (a) Book discussion on Oxford Companion to Economics in India (b) lecture at Dept of

Economics on Reading Peddling Prosperity of Krugman towards understanding Great Recession (c) lecture at Department of International Relations on International Economic Institutions in Global Economy March 2012

(i) Capital Flows and Development- a comparison of the Brettonwoods period with the Washington Consensus Period. Paper presented at International Conference on Changing Structure of international Trade and investment ; Implications for Growth and Development, organized by Department of Economics, Jamia Milia Islamia in collaboration with Centre for WTO Studies. 2-3 March 2011

(j) The Rise and Fall of Washington Consensus. Paper presented at Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka. 15th June 2010

(k) Towards a course in Principles of Economics . Paper presented at National Seminar on Economics Education in Indian Schools at National Council for Educatioanl Research and Training, New Delhi. 4-6 March, 2010

(l) Microfinance and International Capital Flows-Will Benefits Outweigh the Costs? Paper presented at the International Conference on Microfinance, organized by Department of Economics, Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi. February 2009

(m) Financial Liberalisation and the Microfinance Sector in India: Any Lessons from Compartamos? Paper presented at National Seminar India 2050: Eyeing the Growth Potential 13th to 14th March 2009, Kamala Nehru College, New Delhi.

(n) Historical origins of the Contemporary Kerala Model- The Evolution of Kerala Identity and the Role of Concerted Social Movements- Paper presented the seminar on Kerala in the making , organized by the Dept of Archives, Government of Kerala at Travancore House, New Delhi. September 2007

(o) Macroeconomic Aspects behind the growth miracle in India. Paper presented at Conference on US Political Economy and Global Economic System, Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, July 2006

(p) Millennium Development Goals and the Sachs-Easterly Debate . Paper presented at a seminar organised at the Center for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University August 2006

(q) Microfinance Models in India- Paper presented at the National Seminar on Decentralisation hosted by Jamia Milia Islamia February 2005

(r) Paper entitled Treasury View on Disinvestment – A Critique, accepted for presentation at the Joan Robinson Conference held at Cambridge in Sept. 2003.(The author could not participate in the same)

(s) Paper entitled “Agricultural Trade Liberalisation and Food security -Theoretical debates and Empirical Issues”, presented at the National Seminar on Poverty and Food Security in India-Problems and Policies, Department of Economics, Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi, Feb 2003

(t) Labour productivity, international labour standards and developing countries. Paper presented at the National Seminar on WTO and Allied Issues held at Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, February 2002

(u) Paper presented at the National Seminar on Drinking Water Supply and Irrigation held at the Centre For Development Studies, Trivandrum on “The Role Of NGOs in Dryland Irrigation-The Case Study of Seva Mandir”,June 1996.

(v) Paper presented at the International Conference on Kerala’s Development Experience hosted by the Institute of Social Sciences at New Delhi on “Caste- Class dichotomy in the Princely State of Travancore, 1870-1930”, December 1996

Discussant/ Convenor at National Seminars

1. Discussant at the workshop on Rethinking Economic History: Circulation, Exchange and Enterprise in India, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library , New Delhi  March 14-15 2012, of the following papers.(a) K T Ram Mohan: A New Regime of Accumulation in Travancore 1936-49 . See discussion note here (b)Vrunda Pathare: Business Archives : A Window into the Corporate Past. See discussion note here 2. Discussant of the paper by Venaktaramana Yanamandra on Exchange rate pass-through in Indian exports at Seminar on Empirical Issues in Second Research Conference on Empirical issues in International Trade and Finance, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade 16th -17th December 2010. 3. Served as Convenor, Golden Jubilee National Seminar on Public Policy and Delivery in Post-Reform India organised by Department of Economics, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi 20th -21st September 2010. Articles in regional newspapersPublished number of articles in regional newsmagazines like Keralakaumudi, Malayalam and Ashaya Samanvayam on contemporary economic issues.(1) Nobel prize for Amartya Sen (2) East Asian Crisis (3) Indian Rupee under the Asian crisis (4) Economic Alternatives in Latin America (5) Economic Strategies of Hu Jintao’s China (5) Has Dollar’s role come to an End? (6) Obama’s Economic Policy and American RecoveryEducational attainments:BA (Economics) from Govt Arts College, University of Kerala. M A and M Phil degrees in Economics from Centre For Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Currently working for Ph D on Capital Flows, Global Liquidity and Emerging market Economies under the guidance of Prof C P Chandrasekhar, CESP, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University.