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My major research interests include Development and Macro Economics with special focus Public Policy related to the Indian Economy. So far I have worked on issues like employment intensity of growth, infrastructure and human development, infrastructure and agricultural productivity, participation and public service delivery, forest sustainabilty and drivers of forest loss, payments for enviornmental services, socioeconomic and cultural aspects of Ganga River basin, transition rates of education, issues and determinants of FDI, regional inequalities and convergence measures, MFI, mission drift and repayment risks, health financing and healthcare choices among the elderly, cost of dying, giving behaviour and economics of generosity, risk assessment of coastal hazards, assessment of food subsidy scheme in the Indian context, and MGNREGA processes, procedures, convergence, distress migration and impact assessment. In pursuance of furthering my research in issues of contemporary relevance, currently, I am carrying out research on MGNREGA and distress migration, financial inclusion, and food and nutrition vulnerability during COVID. Besides, I am supervising students on a wide variety of issues including economics of cyclone: forecasting, measuring welfare loss and identifying coping and adaptation strategies; green innovation, growth and firm performance; food security and household welfare; MGNREGA and migration; personal finances and their determinants; etc. In addition to providing research guidance to the students, I have collaborated with various national and international agencies including UNDP, ICAR, ICSSR, Government of Odisha, Ministries of Rural Developemnt, Environment and Forests and HRD, New Delhi, and Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute.
Borrowers credit risk factors, perception towards repayment interventions and moral hazard in loan delinquency: an investigation of Indian microfinance institutions by Sangwan S., Nayak N.C., Harshita, Sangwan V. Applied Economics 53 6554-6569 (2021)
Impact of tropical cyclones on sustainable development through loops and cycles: Evidence from select developing countries of Asia by Sen S., Nayak N. C., Mohanty W. K. Empirical Economics 65 2467-2498 (2023)
Estimating household vulnerability to tropical cyclones: An investigation of tropical cyclone shocks in coastal villages of eastern India by Sen S., Nayak N.C., Mohanty W.K. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 83: 103404 1-17 (2022)
Magnitude and determinants of inpatient health expenditure among the elderly in India by Chatterjee C., Nayak N. C., Mahakud J. International Journal of Health Planning and Management 37 1402-1420 (2022)
Vulnerability and risk perceptions of hydrometeorological disasters: a study of a coastal district of Odisha, India by Sen S., Nayak N.C., Mohanty W.K., Keshri C.K. GeoJournal Published online on 5 April 1-21 (2022)
Multidimensional impact of food security on household welfare: Evidences from a household survey in three Indian states by Satapathy J., Nayak N. C., Mahakud J. International Journal of Social Economics 47 913-932 (2020)
Foreign Direct Investment in India: Emerging Horizon by Vani Archana, N C Nayak, B Basu Indian Economic Review 42(2), Delhi School of Economics 255-266 (2007)
Investigating preferences between cash and in-kind transfers among the food subsidy beneficiaries of India by Satapathy J., Nayak N.C., Mahakud J. Journal of Public Affairs 22: e2592 1-11 (2022)
Determinants of Individual Giving Behavior in Urban India by Sen A., Chatterjee R. S., Nayak N. C., Mahakud J. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations 31 271-285 (2020)
Choices between adaptation and coping strategies as responses to cyclonic shocks and their impacton household welfare in villages on the eact coast of India by Sen S., Nayak N. C., Mohanty W. K. International Journal of Disaser Risk Reduction 94 1-16 (2023)
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