Debdatta Pal Assistant Professor Economics and

Name
Debdatta Pal
Position
Assistant Professor
Area
Economics and Business Environment
E-mail
[email protected]
Area of
Research
Publications
Awards &
Honours
Membership
Training &
Consultancy
Educational Qualifications
Fellow Programme in Management (equivalent to Ph.D.)
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Thesis title: ‘Managing rural institutional credit: Lessons from interlinked Transactions’
Advisory Committee: Samar K. Datta (Advisor), Vasant P. Gandhi and Arnab K. Laha
Certified Associate Member
Indian Institute of Banking & Finance, Mumbai
Postgraduate Programme in Agribusiness Management
National Institute of Agricultural Marketing, Jaipur
M.Sc. (Agricultural Extension)
Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, West Bengal
B.Sc. (Agriculture) Hons.
Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, West Bengal
Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Management Raipur
Earlier positions held
Visiting Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Management Indore
Manager (Agri.), Indian Bank
Area of Research
Agricultural Credit and Insurance
Developmental Banking and Microfinance
Agricultural Household Modelling
Transaction Cost Economics
Choice Modelling
Awards & Honours
1. Industrial Finance Corporation of India (IFCI) Thesis Proposal Award at IIMA
2. ACR Grant of US$ 500 for 2012 Boulder Summer Conference on Consumer Financial
Decision Making (did not avail)
3. Stood second in Post Graduate Programme in Agribusiness Management (PGPABM)
4. Awarded University Merit Scholarship for all semesters in M.Sc. (Agriculture)
5. Awarded University Merit Scholarship for all semesters in B.Sc. (Agriculture) Hons.
Professional Membership
1. Indian Institute of Banking & Finance
2. Indian Society of Agricultural Economics
Publications [Research Paper (referred journals), Cases & Books]
Research Paper (referred journals)
1. Pal, D. (forth coming). A note on household approach to credit rationing in agrarian
economies. Development in Practice.
2. Mukherjee, S. & Pal, D. (forth coming). Implications of Transaction Cost Economics
on the Consumer Choice Heuristics: A Grounded Theory Analysis at the Indian
Bottom of the Pyramid. International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets.
3. Pal, D. (2012). Revisiting the Micromanagement of Microfinance: Case of India.
Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers, 37(4), 63-68.
4. Pal, D. (2010). Measuring Technical Efficiency of Microfinance Institutions in India.
Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 65(4), 639-657.
Cases
1. Mukherjee, S. & Pal, D. (2013) Pricing Telecom Licences in India. Richard Ivey
School of Business, University of Western Ontario. (Product No. 9B12A065)
Book Chapters
1. Krishnan, S. K. & Pal, D. (forth coming). Designing A Distributed Microfinance
Credit Bureau Scoring System. A. Ashta (ed.) Management Information System for
Microfinance: Catalyzing Social Innovation for Competitive Advantage, Cambridge
Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
2. Pal, D. & Das, A. (2014) Integrating Geographical Indication with Development. In T.
K. Rout & B. Majhi (eds.) WTO, TRIPS and Geographical Indications (GIs). New
Century Publication, New Delhi, pp. 90-110.
3. Datta, S. K., Chakrabarti, M., & Pal, D. (2012). Recent Developments and Fresh Issues
in Rural Credit. In S. K. Datta & M.S. Sriram (eds.) Towards A Perspective on Flow of
Credit to Small and Marginal Farmers in India. Allied Publishers India Pvt. Ltd.
Mumbai, pp. 269-279.
Research Monograph
1. Pal, D. (2013) Assessing Policy Intervention in Agri-business and Allied Sector Credit
versus Credit Plus Approach for Livelihood promotion. Allied Publishers India Pvt.
Ltd. Mumbai. (co-author)
Training & Consulting
1. Coordinator, Management Development Programme ‘Financing Agribusiness: A value
chain approach’.
2. Coordinator, In-company (Canara Bank) Management Development Programme
‘Financing Agribusiness: A value chain approach’.

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