Dr. Aasheerwad Dwivedi

Assistant Professor

Economics

aasheerwaddwivedi@fms.edu

About

Aasheerwad Dwivedi is an economist whose research interests are Indian economy, Climate Change and Economics of Innovation. His current research focuses on understanding the fiscal impact of energy transition in India, measuring willingness to pay for green goods and understanding the Informal sector in India. Prior to joining FMS, he has taught Economics at Shri Ram College of Commerce for more than a decade and was a tenured faculty at National Law University-Delhi as well. He has also been working as a consultant at the Centre for Social and Economic Progress, New Delhi. He is also a member FICCI’s Economists’ Forum.

Education

1. PhD, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, 2021

2. M.Phil., Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, 2016

3. M.A. Economics, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, 2012

Research

Conference/Seminar/Workshop

1. Participated in Raisina Dialogue as Raisina Young Fellow, 2024
2. Attended Workshop on Climate Finance organised by Task force on climate, development and the IMF at Geneva, Switzerland, 18-21October, 2022.
3. Attended and Presented for the meetings of Task force on climate, development and IMF at Washington DC, USA, 22-24 June, 2022.
4. Selected as Young Scholar to present paper titled “Determinants of Innovation in India” at the Institute of New Economic Thinking, Asia Convening, organised at Vietnam National University, Hanoi on August 12-15, 2019.
5. Paper titled “Economic Geography of Innovation in India: An Empirical Assessment” accepted for presentation at the 47th Annual Conference of the Regional Science Association International – British and Irish Section (RSAI-BIS) organised at Downing College, University of Cambridge on July 16-18, 2019.
6. Presented paper titled “Infrastructure, Growth and Poverty” at the National Seminar on Paradigm Shift of the Indian Economy- New Growth Forces with Better Inclusiveness, organised by Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma Institute of Democracy, University of Lucknow, Lucknow. January, 2019.
7. Presented paper titled “Population and Infrastructure: An empirical assessment of Urban India” at the International Conference on Population and Development of Asian Developing Countries at Kunming, China. August, 2018.
8. Participated in National Conference on “Global risks, sustainability and inclusive growth: India’s policy responses” for Shri Ram College of Commerce. April 16-17, 2019.

Articles/Cases/ Working Papers

1. “On India’s Electricity Consumption”, CSEP Working paper no. 61
2. IMF-BU Working paper titled “Critical challenges in realising the energy transition: An overview of Indian States” for the Task Force on Climate, Development and the IMF
3. IMF-BU Working paper titled “India’s Energy and Fiscal Transition” for Task force on Climate, Development and the International Monetary Fund;
4. “ Spousal Violence in the times of COVID-19 in India”; a DID analysis using NFHS data

Academic experience

1. Associate Editor for special issue on Climate change and Development, Journal of Globalization and Development
2. Member Curriculum Area Group (CAG)- Economics created by NCERT to write text books for class 6-12
3. Member Curricular Area Group: Economics, National Syllabus and Teaching Learning Material Committee, NCERT
4. Knowledge Community on Children in India (KCCI) internship with UNICEF May 27- August 3, 2011, project on “Community Management of Rural Water Supply Systems and Water Quality Monitoring Programme”. The report written was published by UNICEF.
5. Member of National resource centre, co-ordination committee, responsible for creating economics modules for e learning portal SWAYAM by Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.
6. Collaborator for creating Global Platform on “COVID-19 AND OLDER ADULTS IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES”

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