• Curriculum Vitae

    After an engineering degree in 1978, I shifted to my greater interest in economic development and started working on and writing about matters related to economic policy.

    Brief Biography:

    • B.Tech. (Electronics), Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 1978
    • M.Phil. (Applied Economics), Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, 1979
    • Ph.D (Economics), Boston University, 1986
    • Research Associate, Centre for Development Studies, Trivandum, 1979-1986
    • Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories, 1986-1987
    • World Bank, 1987-2003
    • Visiting Professor of Public Policy, The Wharton School, 1997-1998
    • International Monetary Fund, 2001-present

Ashoka Mody is the Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor in International Economic Policy and Lecturer in Public and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.

This web page includes: (a) a blurb on the policy issues that I have worked on, followed by a listing of my papers on the subject; (b) abstracts of most papers; and (c) wherever possible, the full text of the paper.

As will be evident from the listing of the papers, I have been lucky to work with some very fine co-authors, to whom I am most grateful.

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