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According to Wikipedia, Padma Desai was an Indian-American development economist who was the Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor Emerita of comparative economic systems and director of the Center for Transition Economies at Columbia University. Known for her scholarship on Soviet and Indian industrial policy, she was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2009.

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Padma Desai's Published Works

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India: Planning For Industrialization (1970) (219)
India, Planning for Industrialization: Industrialization and Trade Policies Since 1951 (1970) (105)
Evaluating a ten questions screen for childhood disability: reliability and internal structure in different cultures. (1995) (93)
Work Without Wages: Russia's Non-Payment Crisis (2000) (83)
Going Global: Transition from Plan to Market in the World Economy (1999) (60)
Financial Crisis, Contagion, and Containment: From Asia to Argentina (2003) (60)
Russian Retrospectives on Reforms from Yeltsin to Putin (2005) (59)
Macroeconomic Fragility and Exchange Rate Vulnerability: A Cautionary Record of Transition Economies (1998) (51)
Why Did the Ruble Collapse in August 1998 (2000) (49)
The international operations of national firms: A study of direct foreign investment : Stephen H. Hymer, (M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, MA, 1976) pp. xxii + 253, $12.50. (1977) (41)
The Production Function and Technical Change in Postwar Soviet Industry: A Reexamination (1976) (41)
Efficiency Loss from Resource Misallocation in Soviet Industry (1983) (40)
The prevalence of childhood disability and related medical diagnoses in Clarendon, Jamaica. (1992) (40)
The Soviet Economy: Problems and Prospects (1990) (39)
The Bokaro steel plant;: A study of Soviet economic assistance (1972) (35)
Total factor productivity in postwar Soviet industry and its branches (1985) (32)
Wage Arrears, Poverty, and Family Survival Strategies in Russia (1998) (28)
A comparison of efficacy of the key informant and community survey methods in the identification of childhood disability in Jamaica. (1991) (27)
Alternative Measures of Import Substitution (1969) (26)
Categories, classes and criteria in childhood disability--experience from a survey in Jamaica. (1992) (25)
Perestroika in Perspective: The Design and Dilemmas of Soviet Reform (1989) (23)
Conversations on Russia: Reform from Yeltsin to Putin (2006) (22)
Soviet Growth Retardation (1986) (16)
THREE ALTERNATIVE CONCEPTS OF FOREIGN EXCHANGE DIFFICULTIES IN CENTRALLY PLANNED ECONOMIES (1979) (15)
A Short-Term Planning Model for the Indian Economy (1961) (14)
Marxism, Central Planning, and the Soviet Economy: Economic Essays in Honor of Alexander Erlich (1984) (13)
I. Beyond Shock Therapy (1995) (12)
Weather and grain yields in the Soviet Union (1986) (12)
Service needs of children with disabilities in Jamaica (1992) (11)
Is the Soviet Union subsidizing Eastern Europe (1986) (11)
To Pay or Not to Pay: Managerial Decision Making and Wage Withholding in Russia (1998) (11)
Why Is Russian GDP Growth Slowing (2006) (10)
Socialism and Indian Economic Policy (1975) (10)
Marxism, central planning, and the Soviet economy : economic essays in honor of Alexander Erlich (1985) (9)
The Productivity of Foreign Resource Inflow to the Soviet Economy (1979) (9)
The Soviet Economy (1987) (9)
Aftershock in Russia’s Economy (1994) (8)
Soviet Grain and Wheat Import Demands in 1981–85 (1982) (8)
From Financial Crisis to Global Recovery (2011) (8)
The Bombay Urban Development Programme, Mumbai, India (2001) (7)
Russia's Financial Crisis: Economic Setbacks and Policy Responses (2010) (6)
1987 Panel on the Soviet Economic Outlook: Perceptions on a Confusing Set of Statistics (1987) (6)
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INDIAN ECONOMY: AN EXERCISE IN ECONOMIC PLANNING (1963) (6)
Studies in Soviet Economic Planning (1979) (6)
Reforming the Soviet Grain Economy: Performance, Problems, and Solutions (1992) (5)
Gorbachev's Economic Reform: A Soviet Economy Roundtable (1987) (5)
Third world social scientists in Santiago (1973) (4)
WHY DO SOME COUNTRIES RECOVER MORE READILY FROM FINANCIAL CRISES (2004) (4)
The Wage Arrears Crisis in Russia (1997) (4)
Import substitution in the Indian economy 1951-63 (1972) (3)
Estimates of Soviet grain imports in 1980-85: alternative approaches (1981) (3)
Financial Crisis, Contagion, and Containment (2017) (3)
Slum Redevelopment Scheme in Mumbai: building castles in the air? (2002) (3)
India: Planning for Industrialization.@@@Pakistan: Industrialization and Trade Policies. (1973) (2)
Banking Sector Stress Tests (2011) (2)
An Interview with Martin Malia (2000) (2)
The Search for Identity: Where Is Russia Heading? (2007) (2)
China and India: Development during the Last 25 Years: Discussion (1975) (2)
Breaking Out An Indian Woman's American Journey (2012) (1)
Alternative measures of import shares: Theory and estimates for the Soviet Union (1988) (1)
Conversations on Russia (2006) (1)
Secularism in India : Why is it Imperiled ? (2010) (1)
The Soviet Union and Cancún (1982) (1)
High Rates of Anxiety Among Adolescents in a Partial Hospitalization Program (2022) (1)
A Russian Optimist (2000) (1)
Modeling Soviet Agriculture for Assessing Commanding Economy Policies (1994) (0)
Russian to Judgment (1995) (0)
4. Global Recovery Prospects: North America and Eu rope, Asia, and South America (2011) (0)
Perestroika dalam perspektif (2014) (0)
Conference on Russia Held in Honor of Professor (2007) (0)
Slum Redevelopment in Mumbai: rhetoric and reality (1999) (0)
Shock Therapy and After: Prospects for Russian Reform (2019) (0)
8. Contagion from the Ruble to the Real (2003) (0)
Soviet Industrial Production: Estimates of Gross Outputs by Branches and Groups (2009) (0)
CHAPTER TEN. Perestroika: Retrospect and Prospect (1990) (0)
An Indian Tragedy-A Comment (1973) (0)
6. U.S. and EU Regulatory Proposals: How Strict? How Cooperative? (2011) (0)
Russia's Transition Toward the World Economy: Is There a Market Mechanism?* (2008) (0)
Russia's Transition Toward the World Economy: Is the Market Mechanism Working? (1995) (0)
Global Recovery Prospects (2011) (0)
4. Japan: The Lost Decade of the Nineties amidst Policy Paralysis (2003) (0)
In Celebration of Jagdish Bhagwati's 70th Birthday, August 5, 2005: Padma Desai's Comments (2005) (0)
11. International Monetary Fund to the Rescue: How Did It Fare? Badly (2003) (0)
8. The Great Depression and the Current Financial Crisis (2011) (0)
9. Beyond Bangkok: Crisis Erupts in Buenos Aires and in the Bosphorus (2003) (0)
India's Economic Relations with the USSR and Eastern Europe 1953-1969.@@@Pakistan's Trade with Eastern Bloc Countries. (1973) (0)
CHAPTER FOUR. The Likelihood of Success: 1965 versus Now (1990) (0)
CHAPTER EIGHT. The Strategy of Reform (1990) (0)
ON RECONSTRUCTING PRICE, OUTPUT AND VALUE-ADDED INDEXES IN POSTWAR SOVIET INDUSTRY AND ITS BRANCHES* (2009) (0)
Privatizing Russia: By Maxim Boycko, Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London, 1995, pp. ix + 165 (1997) (0)
1. Financial Crisis Origin (2011) (0)
APPENDIX TWO. Political Structure and Election Procedures (1990) (0)
Land and the Constitution in India.@@@India: Planning for Industrialization.@@@The Crisis of Indian Planning: Economic Policy in the 1960s. (1972) (0)
Economic Reform and Democracy: Beyond Shock Therapy (1995) (0)
APPENDIX ONE. Illustrating the Economic Reform and Its Inadequacy (1990) (0)
Russia's Market Transition: Who Has Lost and How? (1997) (0)
2. Banking Sector Stress Tests: United States Versus the European Union (2011) (0)
CHAPTER SIX. Changing the "Superstructure": Beyond Economic Reforms (1990) (0)
Soviet Post-War Economic Development. By Abram Bergson. Wicksell Lecture Series, 1974. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1974. 87 pp. Paper. (1977) (0)
CHAPTER SEVEN. Foreign Policy: New Thinking and Initiatives (1990) (0)
Two British Initiatives for IMF Lending to its Members, 1960â€“1962 (2006) (0)
U.S. and EU Regulatory Proposals (2011) (0)
Income Tax Reform in India.@@@Tariff Protection and Industrialization: A Study of the Indian Tariff Commissions at Work 1946-1965@@@Political Attitudes of Indian Industry: A Case Study of the Baroda Business (1972) (0)
2. The U.S. Economy in Transition (2003) (0)
5. The Asian Financial Crisis (2003) (0)
7. The Ruble Collapses in August 1998 (2003) (0)
CHAPTER ONE. Why Reforms (1990) (0)
12. Crisis Prevention and Containment: The Next Steps in Financial Reform (2003) (0)
CHAPTER NINE. How Long Will Gorbachev Last (1990) (0)
CHAPTER TWO. The Legacy of the Economic Malaise (1990) (0)
3. Is the U.S. Economy on the Mend (2011) (0)
Production Efficiency and Agricultural Reform in Ukraine: Comment (1994) (0)
Explorations in light of ﬁnancial turbulence from Asia to Argentina (2014) (0)
The Concept of Import Substitution (2009) (0)
Analytical Framework : Why Mounting Wage Arrears ? II (2008) (0)
5. Hedge Funds and Derivatives, Credit Default Swaps, and Rating Agencies (2011) (0)
On the Meaning of Comparative Factor Productivity (1983) (0)
Tariff protection and industrialization : a study of the Indian Tariff Commissions at work, 1946-1965 (1970) (0)
CHAPTER FIVE. Introducing Markets: A Faulty Design (1990) (0)
India, Pakistan, US and Bangla Desh (1971) (0)
7. The Dollar’s Future as a Reserve Currency (2011) (0)
9. The Future of American Capitalism (2011) (0)
3. The Euro: Teething Troubles and Faltering Responses (2003) (0)
6. The Asian Crisis Chronology (2003) (0)
CHAPTER THREE. The Reforms: Their Design (1990) (0)
Youth Top Problems in an Acute Psychiatric Sample: Describing Consumer-Nominated Treatment Needs in an Adolescent Partial Hospital Setting. (2022) (0)
Child vs. Parent Perception of Health-Related Quality of Life in Healthy Weight and Obese Children (2012) (0)
The School Interference Questionnaire: Examining a Novel Measure of Mental Health–Related Academic Functional Impairment in Youth (2021) (0)
Providing Evidence-based and Culturally Competent Care to Racial/ethnic Minority Young Adults with Anxiety Disorders: The Experience of an Urban Medical Center Clinic (2020) (0)

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