Dr. Probir Karar
- Designation: Associate Professor
- Department: Economics
- Qualification: M.Sc., M.Phil,Ph.D., MBA (Finance),
- Contact No:
- Email: probirkarar@gmail.com and pkarar@bhairabgangulycollege.ac.in
- Area of Specialization: Statistics and Econometrics
Research Interest:
Growth Economics and Women Empowerment
Teaching Experience:
24 years
Awards:
Professional Membership:
IORA (India) Pune, ISI (Kolkata)> <Important Publication:
Research Paper Publications in Journal:
1. Employment Growth in the Services Sector in India’’, in Gupta et al (eds.), Issues in Development Economics, Orient Longman, (ISBN 81 250 1166 8), Calcutta 2000.
2. Generation of Income Opportunities and Empowerment of Women through SHG in Journal of Social Work & Social Development (ISSN 2229 6468) Vol. 2, No. 2, December 2011.
3. Linkage & Vertical Integration of Service Sector in the Indian Economy: An Input-Output Approach. Journal of Management Research in Emerging Economics, Vol. 2, No. 2, Jul 2012 – Dec 2012, (ISSN: 2229 4252).
4. Education and Women Empowerment- A case Study of Kalna Subdivision in West-Bengal, India. Working Papers: A.K. Dasgupta, Centre for Planning and Development, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, West-Bengal, Volume I, First Edition 2013, (ISBN: 978 93 81274 30 9), New Delhi Publishers.
5. SHG and Women Empowerment: A Case Study of Kalna Subdivision, District Burdwan, West-Bengal, India in Emerging Issues on Women Empowerment, Jayanta Mete et al (eds.), Kunal Books, New Delhi-110002 (India), 2013 (ISBN: 978 93 82420 20 0).
6. Growth of Services Sector in Indian Economy; An Input-Output Structural Decomposition Analysis, Artha Vijnana, Special Issue, Vol. LVI No.1, March 2014, pp. 147-157 (ISSN 0971-586X).
7. Output measurement of Services: Case studies of Medical Care and Retail Trade in India, Artha Vijnana, Vol. LVIII No. 3. September 2016, pp-234-38 (ISSN 0971-586X).
8. Growth of Services Sector in India (1983-84 to 2011-2012): An Input-Output Analysis, in Applications of the Input-Output Framewrk, Mukhopadhyay(ed.), December, 2018, pp-137-56,Springer (ISSN 2198 7246 and ISBN 978-981-13-1506-0)
Conference Presentation:
1. Given a talk on, “Macroeconomic Model: An Analytical Framework” in the 4th Annual Conference on Contemporary Issues in Development Economics held in September,1992, at the Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Calcutta.
2. Given a talk on, “Macroeconomic analysis of the growth of the Indian economy with special reference to the services sector” in the 9th Annual Conference on the Contemporary Issues in Development Economics, held in December 17-18, 1999 at the Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India.
3. Given a talk on “ Structural Change and the Labour Force: The Role of the Services Sector” in the 10th Annual Conference on Contemporary Issues in Development Economics, held in January 12-13, 2001, at the Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Calcutta.
4. Given a talk on, “Growth of Services Sector in the Economy of West Bengal” in the XVI-th Annual Conference on Contemporary Issues in Development Economics held in 16-17 December, 2006 at the Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Calcutta.
5. Given a talk on, “Linkages and Vertical Integration in Indian Economy: An Input-Output Analysis” in International Conference of IORA held in March, 2012 at Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, India.
6. Given a talk on, “Growth of Services Sector of India: A Structural Decomposition Analysis”, in International Conference of IORA held in January, 2014 at Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, India.
7. Presented a Paper, entitled, “Growth of Services Sector in India: An Input-Output Analysis” in International Conference of IORA held in January 11-12, 2017 at Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, India.
Research Projects:
1. Successfully completed a Minor Research Project (MRP) funded by UGC, Kolkata on Self-Help Group in Kalna sub-division, Burdwan, West-Bengal (2008-09).
2. Successfully completed a Minor Research Project (MRP) funded by ICSSR, New Delhi on Growth of Service Sectors in India: A Structural Decomposition Analysis (2010-11).
3. Successfully completed a Minor Research Project (MRP) funded by UGC, Kolkata on Self-Help Group in Hooghly District, West-Bengal (2012-13).
