Prof. Hema Swaminathan, Chair, Centre for Public Policy at IIMB, appointed on new Standing Committee on Economic Statistics
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has made a move to overhaul the system for reviewing statistics related to economic activity. It has constituted a broad-based 28-member Standing Committee on Economic Statistics (SCES), headed by India’s first Chief Statistician, Pronab Sen.
The new, broad-based panel, which has a sweeping mandate to review key data sets that track economic activity and labour force participation trends, has representatives from the United Nations, Reserve Bank of India, Finance Ministry, NITI Aayog, two industry chambers, Tata Trust, and economists and statisticians from several educational institutions.
Prof. Hema Swaminathan, Chair, Centre for Public Policy at IIM Bangalore, is on the new Standing Committee. Her recent and ongoing research focuses on inequality in income and wealth distributions between men and women and its implications for welfare outcomes. She was a co-PI on the Gender Asset Gap project, a comparative study of Ecuador, Ghana and Karnataka (India). Prof. Hema Swaminathan’s other research interests include the understanding the links between economic growth and women’s labour supply in India and the effect of policy initiatives on health outcomes. Swaminathan is also working on survey methodology to collect improved data on several domains; individual-level data asset ownership and wealth, decision making by women, and women’s engagement with the labour market in developing countries.
The Standing Committee, with 10 non-official members and 16 official members, has been mandated to review the framework for economic indicators pertaining to the industrial sector, the services sector and the labour force statistics. It has been tasked with looking into datasets such as the Periodic Labour Force Survey, the Annual Survey of Industries, the Annual Survey of Services Sector Enterprises, the Annual Survey of Unorganised Sector Enterprises, Time Use Survey, Index of Service Production, Index of Industrial Production, Economic Census and other surveys or statistics brought before it.
Prof. Hema Swaminathan, Chair, Centre for Public Policy at IIMB, appointed on new Standing Committee on Economic Statistics
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has made a move to overhaul the system for reviewing statistics related to economic activity. It has constituted a broad-based 28-member Standing Committee on Economic Statistics (SCES), headed by India’s first Chief Statistician, Pronab Sen.
The new, broad-based panel, which has a sweeping mandate to review key data sets that track economic activity and labour force participation trends, has representatives from the United Nations, Reserve Bank of India, Finance Ministry, NITI Aayog, two industry chambers, Tata Trust, and economists and statisticians from several educational institutions.
Prof. Hema Swaminathan, Chair, Centre for Public Policy at IIM Bangalore, is on the new Standing Committee. Her recent and ongoing research focuses on inequality in income and wealth distributions between men and women and its implications for welfare outcomes. She was a co-PI on the Gender Asset Gap project, a comparative study of Ecuador, Ghana and Karnataka (India). Prof. Hema Swaminathan’s other research interests include the understanding the links between economic growth and women’s labour supply in India and the effect of policy initiatives on health outcomes. Swaminathan is also working on survey methodology to collect improved data on several domains; individual-level data asset ownership and wealth, decision making by women, and women’s engagement with the labour market in developing countries.
The Standing Committee, with 10 non-official members and 16 official members, has been mandated to review the framework for economic indicators pertaining to the industrial sector, the services sector and the labour force statistics. It has been tasked with looking into datasets such as the Periodic Labour Force Survey, the Annual Survey of Industries, the Annual Survey of Services Sector Enterprises, the Annual Survey of Unorganised Sector Enterprises, Time Use Survey, Index of Service Production, Index of Industrial Production, Economic Census and other surveys or statistics brought before it.