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His previous appointments were at the Australian National University, Canberra and University of New South Wales @ ADFA, Canberra. Anurag has worked on several projects, most prominent being “ Poverty Traps, Nutrition, Health Status and Anti-Poverty Interventions in Rural India ” funded by DFID, UK and “International exchanges of knowledge, temporary skilled labour movements, and Australia's economic growth” funded by Australia Research Council.
Anurag's main research interests include health and public economics, CGE modelling, poverty nutrition linkages and related parametric and non-parametric econometric analysis to investigate relevant policy issues. At CHE, he is working on the project titled “Modelling the economics of the Australian health care system for policy analysis” funded by NHMRC. Currently he is focussing on the impact of Victorian Case Mix funding regime on allocation of resources across hospitals, waiting time management and patient choices.
Recent Publications:
Calorie and Micronutrient Deprivation and Poverty Nutrition Traps in Rural India (with R. Jha and R. Gaiha), Forthcoming World Development
Inter-DRG Resource Dynamics in a Prospective Payment System: A Stochastic Kernel Approach, Forthcoming Health Care Management Science (Download)
Incomplete Reoforms or Boon: The Role of Banking Sector in Credit Transmission Mechanism in India, Forthcoming Journal of Economic Policy Reform
On Modelling Variety in Consumption Expenditure on Food (with R. Jha and R. Gaiha), Forthcoming International Review of Applied Economics
Market Integration in Wholesale Rice Markets in India, (2005) Economic and Political Weekly 40(53) (with R. Jha and K.V. Bhanu Murthy)
Structural Breaks, Unit Roots and Cointegration: A Further Test of the Sustainability of the Indian Fiscal Deficit (2004) Public Finance Review 32(2) (with R. Jha) (Download )
“The Spatial Distribution of Rural Poverty in the Last Three Quinquennial Rounds of NSS” (2003) Economic and Political Weekly 38(47) (with R. Jha)
The Fiscal Constraint of India’s Economic Growth (2003), in Indian Economic Reforms, R. Jha (ed.), Hampshire, UK and New Delhi, India: Palgrave Macmillan (with R. Jha and S. Chand)
Manuscripts under Review/Revision:
Does disaggregation affect the relationship between health care expenditure and GDP? An analysis using regime shifts (with P Ramful)
Does Exercise Reduce Obesity: Evidence from Australia (with Puskar Maitra)
Use of Elective Surgery in Public Hospitals: Modelling Access-Cost Quality Trade-offs in a Spatial Framework (with A. Harris and Jeff Richardson)
Impact of Public Spending on Waiting Times (with A. Harris)
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