Biography
Ranjan has been engaged in research in the area of development for more than three decades. Within this broad area, developmental issues in the context of South Asia have been the focus of much of his research.
These include analysis of expenditure patterns in India, design and reform of commodity taxes, the distributional implications of inflation in developing country contexts such as India, child labour in India, Pakistan and Nepal, and malnutrition in India with special reference to child health. Other research areas include aspects of food consumption with special reference to food security and nutritional intake, poverty and inequality estimation, multi-dimensional deprivation in India and comparison with China.
