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  List of Books    
   
  • Why are We Waiting? The Logic, Urgency, and Promise of Tackling Climate Change, MIT, 2015.
   
  • The New Bihar: Rekindling Governance and Development (ed. with NK Singh), HarperCollins Publishers India, 2013.
   
  • A Blueprint for a Safer Planet: how to manage climate change and create a new era of progress and prosperity, London: The Bodley Head, 2009 (Also printed as A Global Deal: climate change and the creation of a new era of progress and prosperity, New York: Public Affairs, 2009).
 
   
  • The Economics of Climate Change, The Stern Review, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
 
   
  • Our Common Interest, Report of the Commission for Africa, (as Director of Policy and Research) Commission for Africa, 2005.
 
   
  • Growth and Empowerment, Making Development Happen, (with Jean-Jacques Dethier and F. Halsey Rogers), MIT Press, 2005.
 
   
  • State-level Reforms in India, (ed. with Stephen Howes and Ashok Lahiri), Macmillan, Delhi, 2003.
 
   
  • A Case for Aid (with Ian Goldin and Halsey Rogers), the World Bank 2002.
 
   
  • A Strategy for Development, The World Bank, 2002.
 
   
  • Economic Development in Palanpur over Five Decades (with Peter Lanjouw), Oxford University Press, 1998.
 
   
  • Development Strategy and Management of the Market Economy, Volume I, (with Malinvaud et al.), 1997.
 
   
  • Growth Theories Old and New, and the Role of Agriculture in Economic Development, FAO, Rome 1996.
 
   
  • Editor of the Transition Report (the EBRD's main annual publication) and the Transition Report Update from 1994-1999.
 
   
  • Development Experiences in China and India (ed with S.P.Gupta, A,Hussain and W.Byrd), Allied, Delhi, 1991.
 
   
  • Tax Policy and Planning in Developing countries (with Amaresh Bagchi), Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1991.
 
   
  • Le Rôle de l'Etat dans le Développement Économique, Editions Payot, Lausanne, 1992. The first annual Conference Walras-Pareto delivered at the University of Lausanne, 1-3 May 1991.
 
   
  • Development Experiences in China and India: Reforms and Modernisation (edited with S.P. Gupta, A. Hussain and W. Byrd), Allied Publishers, Delhi, 1991.
 
   
  • The Theory and Practice of Tax Reform in Developing Countries (with E. Ahmad), Cambridge University Press, 1991.
 
   
  • The Theory of Taxation for Developing Countries (edited with D.M.G. Newbery), (Chapter 1, with D. Newbery), (Chapter 2), (Chapter 3), (Chapter 5 with D. Newbery), (Chapter 11, with E. Ahmad), (Chapter 25, with D. Newbery), World Bank and Oxford University Press, 1987.
 
   
  • Palanpur: The Economy of an Indian Village (with C.J. Bliss), Oxford University Press, 1982.
 
   
  • Crime, The Police and Criminal Statistics (with R.A. Carr-Hill), Academic Press, May 1979.
 
   
  • Theories of Economic Growth, edited with J.A. Mirrlees. Proceedings of a conference of the International Economic Association in Jerusalem, April 1970), Macmillan, 1973.
 
     
   

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  Published Articles/ Book Chapters    
  2018

 

 
     
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  2017    
     
  • Report of the High-Level Commission on Carbon Prices” (with Joseph E. Stiglitz and writing team led by Stephane Hallegatte, under the guidance of John Roome, and comprised of Radhika Goyal, Céline Ramstein, and Julie Rozenberg), World Bank, June 2017 (online).

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2016

 

     
     
   
  • China’s Post-Coal Growth" (with Ye Qi, Tong Wu, Jiaqi Lu and Fergus Green), Published in Nature Geoscience, 25, July, 2016, 9(8), pp. 564-566. ISSN: 1752-0894.
 
     
     
     
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  2015    
   
  • The Low-Carbon Road”, Finance & Development, V.52, pp.6-9, The International Monetary Fund, December 2015.
 
     
     
   

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  2011    
   
  • "Sustainable healthcare needs interdisciplinary research: Interdisciplinary collaboration is needed to ensure we develop future proof models of care" (with Anita Charlesworth, Alastair Gray, David Pencheon), British Medical Journal, October 2011.
 
     
   

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  2010    
   
  • Commentary (with Paul Johnson) on "Environmental Taxes" by Don Fullerton, Andrew Leicester, and Stephen Smith, in Stuart Adam, Timothy Besley, Richard Blundell, Stephen Bond, Robert Chote, Malcolm Gammie, Paul Johnson, Gareth Myles, and James Poterba (eds.) Dimensions of Tax Design: The Mirrlees Review, New York: Oxford University Press for the Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2010.
 
   
  • "Climate change and India" (with Ruth Kattumuri and Nandan Nilekani), in Shankar Acharya, Rakesh Mohan (eds.) India's Economy: Performance and Challenges Essays in Honour of Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
 
     
     
     
   
  • The Economics of Climate Change”, in Stephen M. Gardiner, Simon Caney, Dale Jamieson, and Henry Shue (eds.) Climate Ethics: Essential Readings, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
 
     
   

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  2009    
     
   
  • The Global Deal on Climate Change” (with Cameron Hepburn), in Dieter Helm and Cameron Hepburn (eds.) The Economics and Politics of Climate Change, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 36-57, 2009.
 
     
   
  • Changing Economics” in Felix Dodds, Andrew Higham and Richard Sherman (eds.) Climate Change and Energy Insecurity: The Challenge for Peace, Security and Development, Earthscan, London, 2009.
 
   
  • "Economics, ethics and climate change" (with Simon Dietz and Cameron Hepburn), in Kaushik Basu and Ravi Kanbur (eds.) Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honour of Amartya Sen (Volume 2: Society, Institutions and Development), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
 
   

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  2008    
     
     
   
  • The Economics of Climate Change", Richard T. Ely Lecture, American Economic Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 4 January 2008, American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 2008, Vol. 98. No.2, pp.1-37.
 
     
   

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  2004    
     
   

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  2003    
     
     
   
  • “Growth and Poverty Reduction”, CESifo Economic Studies, Vol. 49, No. 1/2003.
 
     
     
   

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  2001    
     
     
   

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  2000    
     
   

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  1999    
     
   
  • "Macroeconomic Progress" (with Marina Wes), in Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands, The Second Decade: Prospects for European Integration after Ten Years of Transition, pp.19-47, The Hague: Sdu Publishers, 1999.
 
     
   

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  1998    
     
     
     
   

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  1997    
     
   
  • "The World Bank as 'Intellectual Actor'" (with Francisco Ferreira), in D. Kapur, J.P. Lewis and R. Webb (eds.) The World Bank: Its First Half Century, Volume 2: Perspectives, pp.523-609, Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1997.
 
     
     
     
     
   
  • "Tax Reform and Stabilisation in Sri Lanka" in Mario I. Blejer and Teresa Ter-Minassian (eds.), Macroeconomic Dimensions of Public Finance: Essays in honour of Vito Tanzi, pp.413-439, London: Routledge, 1997.
 
     
   

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  1996    
     
   

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  1995    
     
   
  • "The Reform of Indirect Taxes in India" (with Robin Burgess and Stephen Howes), pp.113-166 in Robert Cassen and Vijay Joshi (eds.), India: The Future of Economic Reform, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995.
 
     
   

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  1994    
   
  • "Tax Reform in India" (with Robin Burgess), Indian Journal of Applied Economics, 3, pp.1-81, 1994.
 
   

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  1993    
     
   
  • "Comment on 'James Meade and Benevolence' by Frank Hahn", pp.264-268 in A.B. Atkinson (ed), Alternatives to Capitalism: the Economics of Partnership (Proceedings of a conference held in September 1991, in honour of James Meade by the International Economic Association at Windsor), Macmillan/St Martin's Press, 1993.
 
     
   
  • Agricultural Changes and Inequality in Palanpur 1957-1984” (with P. Lanjouw), K. Hoff, A. Braverman and J. E. Stiglitz (eds.), The Economics of Rural Organisation: Theory, practice, and policy, Oxford; New York; Toronto and Melbourne: Oxford University Press for the World Bank, 1993.
 
   

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  1992    
   
  • "Economic Reforms and Public Finance in China” (with Athar Hussain), Public Finance, 47 (supplement), 289-317, 1992.
 
   
  • "Discussion on 'Structural Factors and Tax Revenue in Developing Countries: A Decade of Evidence', by Vito Tanzi", pp.286-289 in Open Economies: Structural Adjustment and Agriculture, Ian Goldin and L. Alan Winters (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 1992.
 
     
   
  • "The Determinants of Growth", Economic Journal, 101, 404, January 1991. Also published in The Future of Economics, John D. Hey (ed.), Basil Blackwell, 1992.
 
   

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  1991    
     
   
  • "On the Recent Increase in Death Rates in China" (with A. Hussain), in Development Experience in India and China, S.P. Gupta, N. Stern, A. Hussain and W. Byrd (eds.), Allied Publishers, New Delhi 1991.
 
     
     
     
   
  • "Poverty in Palanpur" (with P. Lanjouw), The World Bank Economic Review, 5, 23-33, January 1991.
 
     
     
   

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  1990    
     
   
  • "Tax Reform and Shadow Prices for Pakistan" (with E. Ahmad), Oxford Economic Papers, 42, 135‑159, 1990. Also published in Taxation, Private Information and Capital, P.J.N. Sinclair and M.D.E. Slater (eds.), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.
 
     
     
     
   
  • "Comments for the Closing Panel" presented at the World Bank Conference on Tax Policy in Developing Countries, Washington, DC, March 1990, in Tax Policy in Developing Countries, Javed Khalilzadah-Shirazi and Anwar Shah (eds.), The World Bank, Washington, DC.
 
   
  • "Principles of Taxation for Developing Countries" (with E. Ahmad) in Public Policy and Economic Development: Essays in Honour of Ian Little, M.FG. Scott and D. Lal (eds.), Oxford University Press, 1990.
 
     
     
   

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  1989    
   
  • "Taxation for Developing Countries" (with E. Ahmad), in Handbook of Development Economics, Volume II, H.B. Chenery and T. N. Srinivasan (eds.), North Holland, 1989.
 
   
  • "The Poverty Trap in Britain” with (A.B. Atkinson and M.A. King), in Poverty and Social Security, A.B. Atkinson (ed.), Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989.
 
     
   

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  1988    
     
   
  • "A Complete Set of Shadow Prices for Pakistan: Illustrations for 1975‑76" (with E. Ahmad and D. Coady), Pakistan Development Review, 27(1), 7‑43, Spring 1988.
 
     
     
   

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  1987    
   
  • “Optimum Taxation", in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, J. Eatwell, M. Milgate and P. Newman (eds.), Macmillan Press, September 1987.
 
   
  • Entry on "Peasant Economy", in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, J. Eatwell, M. Milgate and P. Newman (eds.), Macmillan Press, September 1987.
 
     
     
     
   

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  1986    
     
     
   
  • "On the Specification of Labour Supply Functions", ESRC, Programme on Taxation, Incentives and the Distribution of Income, Discussion Paper No.50, and published in Unemployment, Search and Labour Supply, R. Blundell and I. Walker (eds.) (Chapter 9), Cambridge University Press, 1986.
 
     
   

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  1985    
     
   

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  1984    
     
     
   

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  1983    
     
   
  • "The Structure of Personal Income Taxation and Income Support" (with A.B. Atkinson and M.A. King), SSRC Programme on Taxation, Incentives and the Distribution of Income, Discussion Paper No.44, published as evidence in the third special report of the House of Commons Treasury and Civil Service Committee HC (1982‑83), 386, June 1983.
 
     
     
   
  • "Taxation for Efficiency", in Microeconomic Efficiency and Macroeconomic Performance, D. Shepherd, J. Turk and A. Silberston (eds.), Philip Allan, 1983.
 
   

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  1982    
     
     
   

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  1981    
   
  • "On Labour Supply and Commodity Demands" (with A.B. Atkinson in conjunction with J. Gomulka), Chapter 10 in Essays in the Theory and Measurement of Consumer Behaviour, A.S. Deaton (ed.), Cambridge University Press, 1981.
 
   

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  1980    
     
     
   

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  1979    
     
   

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  1978    
     
     
     
   

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  1977    
     
   

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  1976    
   
  • "Taxation and Labour Supply—A Partial Survey", presented to the Institute for Fiscal Studies Conference on Taxation and Incentives, January 1976 and published by the IFS, 1976.
 
   
  • "Theory and Estimation in Models of Crime and its Social Control and their Relations to Concepts of Social Output" (with R.A. Carr-Hill), presented to the International Economic Association Conference on The Economics of the Public Services, in Turin, April 1974 and published (Chapter 6) by MacMillan for the IEA, Feldstein and Inman (eds.), 1976.
 
   

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  1975    
     
   
  • "Some Aspects of the Theory of Economic Policy", paper delivered to a conference of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, June 1974, published in the Journal of the I.M.A. in 1975.
 
   

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  1974    
     
     
     
     
   

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  1973    
     
     
   

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  1972    
     
     
     
     
     
   
  • "On Fairly Good Plans" (with J.A. Mirrlees), Journal of Economic Theory, 4, 268‑288, April 1972.
 
   

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