Rahul Ranjan

Educational Qualifications

• Awarded Ph. D. degree in 2020, the title “Cooking Energy Consumption and Women’s Health in Rural India” in Centre for the Study of Regional Development (CSRD), School of Social Sciences (SSS), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. 

• Awarded M.Phil. (Economics) degree in 2015, title “Energy Consumption, Energy Efficiency, and Carbon Dioxide Emissions in the Indian Organized Manufacturing Sector: 1999-00 to 2009-10”. 

• NET Qualified (National Eligibility Test) in UGC June 2015. 

Specialization

Micro Economics, Quantitative Economics and Econometrics.

Teaching:

UG Level: Micro Economics, Quantitative Economics, Research Methodology and Econometrics.

Research Interest: 

Labor Market, Energy/Industry, and issues related to Developmental Economics. 

Research Project

• “Factors Affecting on Learning Achievement of Students in Humanities Subjects at Secondary Level”, funded by NCERT (15 Lacs): Ongoing

• “Financial Inclusion in India: Pathways to Economic Empowerment through Indian Knowledge Systems”, funded by IKS Division, Ministry of Education (60K): Completed. 

• “An Analysis of PM Jan Aushadhi Scheme: A Multisite Study”, funded by ICSSR (13 Lacs): Completed.

Research Experience 

• Worked as a Consultant with Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi from February 2022 to September 2023. 

• Worked as a Consultant with the Office of Economic Adviser, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), New Delhi from December 2020 to February 2022.

• Worked as a Senior Research Associate with Institute for Human Development, New Delhi from July 2019 to November 2020. 

Profiles

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7950-2817

Published Research Papers

• “Worldwide Trade Analysis of Indian AYUSH Products”, World Medical & Health Policy, Vol.1, pp.1-11, 2025.

• “Enhancing Workforce Dynamics: Examining the Role of Vocational Training on Employability” (with Dr. Anish Gupta), The International Journal of Education and Allied Sciences, Vol.15, No.2, December 2023. 

• “Addressing MSME’s Financing Challenges Through G20 Action” (with Dr. Priyadarshi Dash), T20 India 2023. 

• “Financial Literacy across Different States of India: An Empirical Analysis” (with Dr. Priyadarshi Dash), RIS Discussion Paper Series, RIS-DP # 286, November 2023. 

• “Switching Towards LPG: Indian Household Perspectives” (with Mr. Sudershan Singh), January 2023, Journal of Quantitative Economics, Springer Publication. 

• “Industrial Performance and Industrial Dispute: A Case Study of Tamil Nadu”, Indian Journal of Economics. July 2023.

• ‘Just Transition’ Initiatives by G20, G20 Digest, Vol. 2, No.2&3, pp 75-90, April-September, 2022

• “Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Industries on Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Spillover”. Indian Journal of Economics. July 2022. 

• “Decomposing the Gaps in Access to LPG across Socio-Religious Groups in Rural India”, Journal of Social Inclusion Studies, October 2020. 

•  “Household Cooking Fuel Patterns in Rural India: Pre and Post Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana”, Indian Journal of Human Development, November 2020.

• “Impacts of Traditional Cooking Fuels on the Prevalence of Short-term and Long-term Ailments in India” (with Dr. Kaushik. Badra). Indian Journal of Human Development, Sage Publication, 2019, Vol.13, Issue.3, pp-294-307. 

•  “Deciphering Growth: Past and Present” (with Prof. Ravi. Srivastava), Economic and Political Weekly, Dec 2016, Vol.51.

• “Does Socio-Religious Identity lead to Structural Disadvantage? Evidence from the Indian Labor Market” (with Mr. Alwin and Mr. Sudershan), Indian Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, Vol. 1, Issue. 3, pp 1-17. 

• “Determinants of Emission and Energy Intensity in Indian Organized Manufacturing Sector”, Artha Vijnana, September 2015, Vol. 57, No.03, pp 193-210. 

• “Energy Consumption and Carbon Dioxide Emission in Indian Organized Manufacturing Sector”, Journal of Business Studies, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi, 2015-16, Vol-VIII.

Newspaper 

• “Unpacking how MSMEs are defined in India’s Manufacturing and Services Sector”, Ideas for India, 2023.

• “Some Facts of Slum need to be in consideration to combat COVID 19”, The Pioneer, 2020. 

• “Industrialisation in Tamil Nadu: Some worrisome trends”, The Pioneer, January 16, 2022

• “Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana: Issues and gaps in service delivery and access”, 11^th December 2019 in Ideas for India. 

Book Published

• “Financial Inclusion in India Pathways to Economic Empowerment through Indian Knowledge Systems”, A.K. Publications, New Delhi, 2025. 

Conferences/ Seminars attended

• Paper presented “Are Caste Differences in Women’s Employment Narrowing Over Time?” in 65^th Conference of The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE) organized by in Institute for Social and Economic Change, January 9-11, 2025. 

• Attended “T-20 Summit” (Indonesia G20 Presidency) at Bali, Indonesia, September 5-6, 2022. 

• Paper resented “A Re-examining the Nexus of Energy Inequality and Energy Poverty in India: Evidence from NSS Data” in Human Development and Capability Association’s 2017 Conference- Challenging Inequalities: Human Development and Social Change” organized by University of Cape Town, South Africa, September 6-8, 2017. 

• Attended the workshop titled “Summer School in Environmental and Resource Economics” organized by the South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE) from May 9-26, 2016 in AITCC, Pathumthani, Thailand. 

• Paper presented “Energy Consumption and Carbon Dioxide Emission in Indian Organized Manufacturing Sector”, 51^st The Indian Econometric Society (TIES) Workshop 2014, Dec 12-14, Patiala. 

• Paper presented “The Impact of Global Meltdown on Indian Economy”, International Workshop 2012, Feb 4-5, “Post Economic Meltdown Era Challenges & Strategies” organised by Faculty of Management Studies, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in association with AMDISA & Alliance University, Bengaluru.

Lecture Delivered 

• “Uses of Secondary Data for Social Research and Policymaking” at Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Centre, Karnatak University, Dharwad, Karnataka.

• “Integration of Indian Knowledge Systems in Education and Economic Practices” at Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Centre, Karnatak University, Dharwad, Karnataka.

• “Application of Secondary Data for Social Research and Policymaking” at Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Centre, Regional Institute of Education, Mysuru.

• “Skill Enhancement and Data Analysis” at Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Centre, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak, Madhya Pradesh. 

• “NSSO Data Extraction” at Department of Economics, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak, Madhya Pradesh. 

• “Handling the national Sample Survey (NSS) and Periodic Labourforce Survey (PLFS) using STATA software” at Department of Economics, Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith,Varanasi, September 3-9, 2020.