1. Awarded the Ford Foundation Post Doctoral Fellowship in 1991 enabling a Visiting Fellowship for a year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.
2. Best Paper Award: 2001 ABAS International Conference at Quebec City, Canada, for paper entitled “How Does the Tertiary Sector Grow? The Indian Experience”, http://www.sba.muohio.edu/abas/

1. Consultant on measurement of capital services, Economic Statistics Division, OECD, Paris, (November, 2007).

1. The Significance and Growth of the Tertiary Sector of the Indian Economy – 1950 to 1997, published by Northern Book Centre, New Delhi, with financial grant from the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi, 2001.
2. Petroleum Refining in India: Reform and Technical Efficiency in Public Sector Enterprises, monograph of the SPIESR, 2010, Forthcoming

Major Research Project undertaken as Director

1. Economic Efficiency in Petro-refining in India, ICSSR, New Delhi. Report submitted in March, 2007.

Major Publications:

1. The Rising Share of Trade in NDP – An Explanation, 1985, Journal of Income and Wealth, 7 (2), N. Delhi.
2. Net Material Product and Net Domestic Product – Significance of the two concepts for Less Developed Countries, 1987, Economic and Political Weekly, Jan.3-10, Mumbai.
3. Tertiary Sector and Net Material Product – Indian Economy: 1950-51 to 1983-84, 1989, Economic and Political Weekly, Sept. 23, Mumbai.
4. A Measure of Commercial Bank’s Share in GDP – Indian Economy: 1950-51 to 1983-84, 1990, Journal of Income and Wealth, 12(2), N. Delhi.
5. Productivity Trend in Organized Manufacturing Sector in India, 1996, (jointly with Mihir K. Pal), Journal of Income and Wealth, 18(2), N.Delhi.
6. An Analysis of the Growth of Distributive Trade in India, 1998, Arthavijnana, 11(3), Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune.
7. Determination of Capital Formation in Large Developing Economies, 1999, Journal of Income and Wealth, 21(1), N. Delhi.
8. Public Administrative Services in India – Analysis of Trend, 2001, Journal of Income and Wealth, 23(1), N. Delhi.
9. How Does the Tertiary Sector Grow? The Indian Experience, 2001, Paper presented in ABAS international conference, Quebec, Canada, http://www.sba.muohio.edu/abas/
10. Public Profitability in Oil-refining PSU’s, Economic and Political Weekly, 2004, 39 (22) (Joint paper with Dr. Pradipta Bhattacharya)
11. The Story of Inefficiency in Petro-refining in India, in Ghose, R. and Neogi, C. (2005) (eds), Theory and Application of Productivity and Efficiency, Macmillan. Delhi. (Joint paper with Dr. Pradipta Bhattacharya)
12. Measurement of Capital Stock: The PIM and the EPD Approach, Indian Economic Review, 2006, Vol 41, No. 2.
13. Just Compensation for Land: Singur Controversy, Counterviews, 2(1). http://www.cournteviews.org.
14. Material Basis of Service Sector Growth in India: 1950-51 to 2004-05, invited paper for key-note address in the Annual Conference of the Bengal Economic Association, 2008, Arthabeekshan, 16(4), March, 2008.
15. Reform and Technical Efficiency in Public Sector Oil Refining in India, Journal of Quantitative Economics, 2008, 6(2), Mumbai.
16. Goods Induced Service Growth or the Other Way Round? Arthavijnana, 2010, (joint paper with Sulagna Bhattacharya) Forthcoming.

Working Paper:

1. Service Boom in the Indian Economy: An Analysis of Causal Influences, SPIESR working paper, 2010.

Contact:

Email: m1datta@hotmail.com /mdatta@spiesr.ac.in