Dr. Arpita Mukherjee
Professor
arpita@icrier.res.in

Brief Profile

Dr Mukherjee has over twelve years of experience in policy oriented research in India and the UK. Her research interest includes services; WTO; bilateral/regional agreements; infrastructure; FDI; agriculture reforms and agribusiness investment; retail; migration; labour mobility and labour market programmes. She has successfully completed several projects for different departments of the Indian and the UK governments; international organization such as UNCTAD, WTO, ASEAN Secretariat, Hamburg Institute of International Economics, CENTAD (Oxfam), SANEI, Policy Studies Institute and Australian National University; and Indian organizations such as NASSCOM and NABARD. Her research is a key contributor to India’s negotiating strategy in services in the Doha Round. Dr Mukherjee has been a part of the negotiating team for the services negotiations in India’s bilateral agreements such as the India-Singapore CECA and the on-going India-EU Bilateral Trade and Investment Agreement. She has over 50 publications including books, journals, working papers and government reports.  Her study on “FDI in Retail Sector: India” contributed significantly to the debate in this area. Dr Mukherjee has presented her research in various international and national conferences. She has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Portsmouth, UK.

Selected publications:

• “Food for Policy – Reforming Agriculture” jointly edited with Surabhi Mittal  Cambridge University Press (Foundation Books), New Delhi, 2008
  
  
• “Domestic Politics and Building of Alliance for Preferential Services Liberalization - The Experiences of India and Singapore” in Martin Roy and Juan A. Marchetti Liberalizing Trade in Services: Bilateral, Regional, and Multilateral - Perspectives in the 21st century” ,  Cambridge University Press and the WTO (forthcoming 2008)
  
  
• East Asian Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) in Services: Facilitating Free Flow of Services in ASEAN?, with Ray Trewin, Malcolm Bosworth, Dionisius A. Narjoko, Andrew Stoler, James Redden, Victoria Donaldson and Graeme Thomson, ASEAN-Australia Development Cooperation Program, ASEAN Secretariat, June 2008.
  
  
• “Fuelling India’s Retail Boom – What should be the Right Policy?” in Murali K. Mantrala and Shaoming Zou edited “Retailing Revolutions in China and India”, Springer Publishing Inc., Washington (Forthcoming 2009).
  
  
• “Developing Country: the Case of India” in D. Barrowclough and Z..Kozul-Wright (eds) Creative Industries and Developing Countries: Voice, Choice and Economic Growth, Routledge, UK, 2007.
  
  
• Indo-US FTA: Prospects for IT-enabled/BPO Services” in IIMB Management Review, Vol. 19, No 3, September 2007, pgs. 231-250.
  
  
• “FDI in Retail Sector: India”, with Nitisha Patel, Academic Foundation, 2005, with Nitisha Patel.
  
  
• Developing Countries and GATS Negotiations: The Case of India", Global Economy Journal: Vol. 5: No. 2, Article 1, 2005.

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