S. Subramanian

S. Subramanian is a former Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) National Fellow and a former professor of the Madras Institute of Development Studies. Subramanian is an elected fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA). He has worked extensively on measurement and other aspects of poverty, inequality, and demography, and on topics in collective choice theory, welfare economics, and development economics. In 2015, he was appointed as a member of the Advisory Board of the World Bank's Commission on Global Poverty under the Chairmanship of Sir Anthony Atkinson. He lives and works in Chennai.

The statue of India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, in Visakhapatnam. File photo: K.R. Deepak/The Hindu

On Rights and Duties – Two Essays

Views of leaders occupy prominent positions in the popular narrative in any society: they set a tone for political and social discourse and play a ...

Pandemic-induced Poverty in India after the First Wave of COVID-19: An Elaboration of Two Earlier Estimates

Policy making, to be effective, requires assessments of magnitudes and trends of major events based on evidence. One of the objectives of government ...

A philanthropist distributing food to migrant workers rendered jobless due to COVID-19 lockdown restrictions in Vijayawada on July 01, 2020. Photo: K.V.S. Giri/The Hindu Archives.

Pandemic-induced Poverty in India after the First Wave of COVID-19: An Elaboration of Two Earlier Estimates

Policy making, to be effective, requires assessments of magnitudes and trends of major events based on evidence. One of the objectives of government ...

A view of busy Sarojini Nagar Market, in New Delhi on December 5, 2019. Photo: Sushil Kumar Verma

Letting the Data Speak: Consumption Spending, Rural Distress, Urban Slow-Down, and Overall Stagnation

The National Statistical Office (NSO) brings out a survey, once every five years, on the distribution of consumption expenditure in the rural and ...

A resident in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, receives Rs.1,000 as a festival gift from the State government on January 9, 2019. In the run up to the General Election, due in May, India's main political parties are holding out promises of basic income transfers to the electorate. Photo: J. Manoharan / The Hindu-Tamil

Some Basic Issues Underlying Basic Income

As India gears up for another general election, the politics of poverty eradication has again gained centre-stage; and there has been a great deal of ...

Some Views on Public Policy Outcomes in India - Is it the Message or the Messenger?

How has India been doing on the economic and social fronts? The picture that emerges—from casual empiricism as much as from careful analysis of facts ...