Dr. Balakrushna Padhi(Assistant Professor)
Department of Economics and Finance
BITS Pilani,
Pilani Campus.

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Dr. Balakrushna Padhi is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and Finance, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani Campus, Rajasthan. Apart from his current assignment he has also worked in various capacities (Economist, Research Assistant and Consultant) in national level institutions like, CEFT (Bhubaneswar); IIM (Indore); CDS (Trivandrum); IEG (New Delhi); ISID (New Delhi). His research interest includes: employment, informality and labour migration; and issues related to poverty, inequality and health¸ social sector budgeting. His teaching interest topics include Public finance, Principles of Economics, Microeconomics and Business environment. He has completed his PhD from Centre for the Study of Regional Development (CSRD), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Prior to this he has completed his MPhil. in Applied Economics at Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Trivandrum, Kerala and Masters in economics from Sambalpur University, Odisha. He has published several research papers in the journal of national and international repute.