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BOOKS
Santhakumar, V., Ritika Jain, Muralee Thummarukudy. Land Restoration: A Rational, Grounded and Pragmatic Approach. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2026.
Mani, Sunil, India’s High Tech Leap, Industrial policy and future of innovation, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, Mass.USA: Edward Elgar, 2026
J Devika, Anamika Ajay , Family, Women, and Ill-Being: A Critique of the Family in Twentieth Century Kerala, New Delhi: Zubaan, 2026.
Beena, PL, and Thiagu Ranganathan (eds), Kerala Transforming: Labor and Trade Mobility in Times of Pandemic. Taylor & Francis, 2025.
Beena, PL, Murali Kallummal and Santosh Kumar (eds), Indian Economy during the Neoliberal Era: Finance, Industry and Employment, Routledge, South Asia Series, 2023
Bhattacharyya, Chandril and Dona Ghosh, Introductory Macroeconomics, Book Rivers, 2023
J Devika, Feeling Kerala: An Anthology of Malayalam Short Stories, Penguin India, New Delhi, 2023
Ranganathan, Thiagu and Sarthak Gaurav, Accidental Gamblers: Risk and Vulnerability in Vidarbha Cotton, Cambridge University Press, 2023
Mani, Sunil and Chidambaran G Iyer (eds.), India’s Economy and Society, Lateral Exploration, Singapore: Springer, eBook ISBN978-981-16-0869-8, 2021
Nagaraj, R, Industrialisation for Employment and Growth in India: Lessons From Small Firm Clusters and Beyond, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 287 pages, HB. ISBN: 9781108832335, 2021
Oommen , MA, Essays on Fiscal Decentralisation to Local Governments in India, Concept Publication, December. ISBN-13: 978-9354397721, 2021
Jacob, Babu and Suraj Jacob, Governing Locally: Institutions, Policies and Implementation in Indian Cities, Cambridge: Cambridge University 293 pages, HB. ISBN: 9781108832342, 2021
Mitra, A., Das, S., Tripathi, A., Sarangi, T.K. and Ranganathan, T., Climate Change, Livelihood Diversification and Well-Being: The Case of Rural Odisha. Springer, November.ISBN-13 : 978-9811670480, 2021.
RESEARCH PAPERS AND ARTICLES IN JOURNAL
Mani, Sunil. “The Guarantee Bridge : How Loan Guarantees Fuel India’s Corporate Global Ambitions.” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 61, No. 21, May 2026, pp. 18–21.
Balakrishnan, Pulapre, and Aman Raj. “The Thali Index of the Standard of Living.” Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 61, no. 20, May 2026,
pp. 45–50.
Oommen, M. A. “The Sixteenth Finance Commission and the Third Tier: A Wider Perspective.” Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 61, no. 19, May 2026, pp. 67–71.
Rajit Biswas, Neelanjan Sen and Muskaan Ahlawat, “Recycling of Waste: Competition and Extended Producer Responsibility induced Vertical Integration” , The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy (accepted May 2026)
Aishwarya Prakash, New Collectives, Old Hierarchies? Unfulfilled Promises of Farmer Producer Companies
Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 60, Issue No. 49, 06 Dec, 2025
K. Vidyarani, Hrushikesh Mallick. Does Credit From Various Sources Improve MSME Performance? An Empirical Analysis for a Large Transitioning Developing Economy of India, Journal of International Development, 2025.
Shreya Biswas & Ritika Jain.The Road to Safety – Examining the Nexus between Road Infrastructure and Crime in Rural India
Journal of Quantitative Economics, 2025.
Neetha N., Praveena Kodoth, Rajni Palriwala. Analysing the Co-constitution of Unpaid Care Labour and Paid Work
Economic and Political Weekly, 60(26-27), 28 June 2025.
Thiagu Ranganathan, Praveena Kodoth, Tirtha Chatterjee. Contingent Aspirations and Employment Dynamics among Higher-educated Young Mothers in Kerala, Economic and Political Weekly, 60(26-27), 28 June 2025.
Kizhakkeppat Vidyarani & Thangamani Maheshkumar., Business obstacles to the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises in India: Evidence from enterprise surveys, Journal of the International Council for Small Business, 2025.
T, Abhilash. “Land Rights and Livelihood: Contextualizing the Forest Conservation Act, 2023.” Artha Vijnana, vol. LXVII, no. 4, 2025. UGC Care.
T, Abhilash. “Persisting Exclusion? Contextualizing the Tribal Welfare Policies of Kerala State.” Education and Society, vol. 46, no. 4, 2025, pp. 014–22. UGC Care.
T, Abhilash. “Tribal Rights and Kerala Model of Development: Exploring New Trend.” Indian Journal of Political Science, vol. 85, no. 2, 2025, pp. 401–406. UGC Care.
LT Abhinav Surya and PL Beena (2025) Investment and Capital-Labour Relations in India’s Organized Manufacturing Sector, International Review of Applied Economics, Online, Routledge, Taylor and Francis.
LT Abhinav Surya and PL Beena (2026) Labour Market Relations across Technology and Size class categories in India’s Organised Manufacturing Sector, The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Online, February, Springer.
Devika J, ‘Malayalam’, Symposium on translation and Indian languages, Special Issue on Indian Languages,Granta 173, 2025, 40-42.
Dyer, Caroline, Suraj Jacob, and Archana Choksi. “Accountability for learning in contexts of fragile school attendance in India.” International Journal of Educational Development 121, 2026: 103485.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2025.103485
Shekar, K. Chandra. “Informality, innovation, and firm performance: evidence from World Bank Enterprise Survey in India.” Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 14.1 (2025): 17.
Paul, A., Anand, I. & Chaudhary, S. “Chronic Unemployment in India.” Indian Journal of Labour Economics (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41027-026-00611-6
Ranganathan, T., and S. Krithi. “Heterogeneous Interests and Monetary Payments for Afforestation: Findings from a Framed Field Experiment (FFE) in Uttara Kannada, India.” Environment and Development Economics, forthcoming 2026.
Singh, R., and Thiagu Ranganathan. “Does Parental Involvement Improve the Learning Outcomes of Children? Evidence from India.” Oxford Development Studies, forthcoming 2026.
Thapa, H. S., and Thiagu Ranganathan. “Dynamics of Mechanisation and Labour Use in Semi-Arid India: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study.” Economic and Political Weekly, forthcoming 2026.
Ranganathan, T., Kodoth, P., and T. Chatterjee. “Contingent Aspirations and Employment Dynamics among Higher-educated Young Mothers in Kerala.” Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 60, no. 26-27, 2025, pp. 14-19.
Biswas, Shreya, and Ritika Jain. “The Road to Safety-Examining the Nexus between Road Infrastructure and Crime in Rural India.” Journal of Quantitative Economics (2025): 1-24.
Jain, Ritika. “Who has ICT Access in India? A Gender-based Analysis.” The Indian Economic Journal 73.3 (2025): 515-533.
Balakrishnan, P. and Parameswaran, M. ‘Inflation in India: Dynamics, distributional impact and policy implication’, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics vol. 74, 2025, pp. 556–566.
Veeramani and Anwesha Basu (2025). Why is Labour Receiving a Declining Share of Income in India? Role of Trade, Technology, and Market Share Reallocation.Asian Economic Papers, 24(3). MIT Press.
Veeramani (Forthcoming). India’s Integration into Global Value Chains: Policy Approaches to Growth and Supply Chain Resilience.Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies. Wiley.
Veeramani and Manish (2026). Do Global Value Chains Clean or Harm the Environment?Indian Economic Review. 04 March 2026.
Veeramani (Forthcoming). The New World Trade Order: Reorganization, Not Retreat,IIM Kozhikode Society and Management Review, Sage Publications.
Veeramani (2025). External Sector Outlook and 2025–26 Union Budget.Economic and Political Weekly, 60(16), 19 April.
Amitendu Palit, C. Veeramani, Shailja Singh, Surendar Singh & Malini L. Tantri (2025). Industrial policy and trade policy in the evolving new global order. Journal of Social and Economic Development (Suppl 2), 135–137.
Mani, Sunil (2025), ‘Building India’s semiconductor ecosystem: policies, capabilities, and challenges in achieving technological self-reliance’, Science and Public Policy, scaf094, https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scaf09
Mani, Sunil (2025), ‘India’s RDI Scheme Overcoming Governance Bottlenecks for Strategic Innovation’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 60, Issue No. 45, pp. 20-22
Mani, Sunil (2025), ‘Evolving Strategies in India’s Technological Self-reliance, Patent Policies, R&D Incentives, and Human Resource Development’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 60, Issue No. 23,pp. 52-64
Mani, Sunil, VK Dadhwal, and C S Shaijumon (2025), Space economy of India, its impact on rest of the economy, Space Policy , DOI: 10.1016/j.spacepol.2025.101692
Online Journal Article
Devika J, Ajay Anamika, Debt, Discipline, and Gender in Contemporary Kerala’,Social Change. Published online, 20 April, 2026, doi/10.1177/00490857261435013
Mallick, Hrushikesh, et al. “Dynamics of Energy Consumption, Economic Growth and Carbon Emission in a Sub-national Economy Context of India: An Evidence from Kerala.” Green and Low-Carbon Economy (2025). DOI- https://doi.org/10.47852/bonviewGLCE52024837
Kodoth, P. “Paternalist Governance, Tacit Accommodations: The Dynamics of Informality in Women’s Labour Mobility to the Middle East.” Sociological Bulletin, vol 74, no 4, pp 489-503, https://doi.org/10.1177/00380229251349569
Iyer C.G. (2025). Assessing the PLI Scheme for Mobile Manufacturing in India. The India Forum, A Journal-Magazine on Contemporary Issues, 6 July 2025.
https://www.theindiaforum.in/economy/assessing-pli-scheme-mobile-manufacturing-india
https://www.theindiaforum.in/sites/default/files/article_pdf/2025/07/23/1819-1753245851.pdf
Neetha, N. Praveena Kodoth and Rajni Palriwala. “Analysing the co-constitution of unpaid care labour and paid work, Introduction to Review of Gender Studies,” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 60, no 26 & 27, 2025, pp June 28 and July 5.
Ranganathan T., Praveena Kodoth and Tirtha Chatterjee. 2025. Contingent aspirations and employment dynamics of young mothers in Kerala, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 60, no 26 & 27) 2025.
Kodoth, P. Failures of Marital Provisioning and the Framing of Agency by Migrant Domestic Workers from Kerala, National Law University Journal of Labour, Vol 1 (1), 2025.
CHAPTER IN EDITED BOOK
Jacob, Suraj. “Geography of Electoral Support: The BJP and Congress over Time.” State Politics in Contemporary India, edited by Yatindra Singh Sisodia, Ashutosh Kumar, and Pratip Chattopadhyay, Routledge, 2025, pp. 57-74.
Jacob, Suraj. “Process Tracing.” An Introduction to Qualitative Research, edited by Hridya Kant Dewan and Vimala Ramachandran, Aakar Books and Azim Premji University, 2025, pp. 191-213.
Jacob, Suraj. “Stirrings of Collective Conscience.” Being Earth: Portraits of Militant Nonviolence, edited by Amrita Nandy, Seva Mandir, 2025, pp. v-xvi.
Thapa, H. S., and Thiagu Ranganathan. “Mechanisation and Gendered Labour Market Impacts: Evidence from Longitudinal Data in Maharashtra.” Mechanization of Small-Scale Farms in Asia: Current Status, Impacts, and Future Prospects, edited by W. Ma and D. B. Rahut, Asian Development Bank Institute Publications, forthcoming 2026.
Parameswaran, M. and Balakrishnan, Pulapre. “Economic Growth in India: A Longer View” 75 Years of Growth, Development and Productivity in India: Issues, Measures, Causes and Impacts, edited by Dibyendu Maiti, Bishwanath Goldar, and K L Krishna, Springer, 2025, pp.91—114.
Veeramani (2025). Trade, FDI, and Growth: Overview and Evidence from India.In Dibyendu Maiti, Bishwanath Goldar, and K.L. Krishna (Eds.), 75 Years of Growth, Development and Productivity in India. Springer.
India Needs to Move Beyond Sector-Specific Use of Industrial Robots by
Sunil Mani. The Policy Edge, 7 May 2026.
https://www.policyedge.in/p/in
U.S. Hegemony and the West Asian War: A Political-Economic
Intervention by Dhruv Golani. MRonline, 4 May 2025.
https://mronline.org/2026/05/0
India’s IP Surge: A Questionable Patent Filing Boom Obscures a
Persistent Innovation Deficit by Sunil Mani. The India Forum, 26 Mar
2026. https://www.theindiaforum.in/e
Why Rising Foreign Demand for Nurses Benefits Keralite Women by Sunil
Mani. Global Indian Times Podcast, 15 Mar 2026.
https://www.globalindiantimes.
Does Kerala Have Lessons on Reducing Poverty by Pulapre Balakrishnan.
The Wire, 2 March 2026.
https://thewire.in/economy/doe
Inspiring Achievements of Keralite Women in Science and Technology by
Sunil Mani. Global Indian Times, 22 Feb 2026.
https://www.globalindiantimes.
Madhav Gadgil: the hub of a wheel, the voice of the Ghats by John
Kurien. Mongabay, 18 Feb 2026.
https://india.mongabay.com/202
Sexual and Reproductive Justice at the Margins by Shraddha Jain. The
India Forum, 17 Feb 2026.
https://www.theindiaforum.in/b
Budget’s Service Sector-Led AI Strategy: Perils for Educated Workforce
by Sachin Varghese Titty, Anjana Kesav. News Click, 03 Feb 2026.
https://www.newsclick.in/budge
Loan Guarantees and the Internationalisation of Indian Firms by Sunil
Mani. IEDL UOA WP No. 16/2026.
https://iedl.econ.uoa.gr/filea
This is an elitist Budget. But it may still yield growth by Pulapre
Balakrishnan. The Indian Express, 1 Feb 2026.
https://indianexpress.com/arti
Beyond empty slogans by Amresh Senapati and Udaya Shankar Mishra. The
Telegraph Online, 24 January 2026.
https://www.telegraphindia.com
A Republic of Rights, Not of Dietary Policing: The Koraput Episode by
Madhusudan Nag & Shakuntala Ghadai. The Mooknayak English, 26 Jan
2026. https://en.themooknayak.com/am
Will the Adani Embraer Partnership Enable India to Build Aircraft by
Sunil Mani. Global Indian Times, 28 Jan 2026.
https://www.globalindiantimes.
MGNREGA gave women freedom: New law may not by Srimanjori Guha,
Annesha Mukherjee. The Indian Express, 16 Jan 2026.
https://indianexpress.com/arti
Signing free-trade deals is not enough to secure real economic gains
by C Veeramani and Himanshu Jaiswal. Business Standard, 12 January
2026. https://www.business-standard.