Raghuram imprint: first time ever ministry reveals faces who wrote eco survey

Eco Survey enters open era: They toiled hard behind the scenes

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Kumar Deep Banerjee | February 27, 2013



The economic survey 2012-13 has an indelible imprint of the MIT-educated economic advisor to the finance minister, Raghuram Govind Rajan.

For the first time for the economic survey, there are 38 brief bios attached, talking, about those silent voices who have burnt the midnight oil to put together the survey at a time when the economy is facing sever tailwinds.

Interestingly in the link provided for the "Faces behind the Economic Survey" the boss, ie, Rajan himself, features on page three. Go ahead take a look at the people who wrote the economic survey here.

As a sample, consider the bio-data of the chief economic advisor himself:

Raghuram G. Rajan, Chief Economic Adviser

Raghuram Rajan is the Chief Economic Advisor, Finance Ministry, Government of India. He is also the Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago’s Booth School. Between 2003 and 2006, Dr. Rajan was the Chief Economist and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund.
Dr. Rajan’s research interests are in banking, corporate finance, and economic development, especially the role finance plays in it. He co-authored Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists with Luigi Zingales in 2003. He then wrote Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy, for which he was awarded the Financial Times-Goldman Sachs prize for best business book in 2010.
Dr. Rajan is a member of the Group of Thirty. He was the President of the American Finance Association in 2011 and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In January 2003, the American Finance Association awarded Dr. Rajan the inaugural Fischer Black Prize for the best finance researcher under the age of 40. The other awards he has received include the global Indian of the year award from NASSCOM in 2011,the Infosys prize for the Economic Sciences in 2012, and the Center for Financial Studies Deutsche Bank Prize for financial economics in 2013.

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