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Ajit Singh - Project Leader
My research falls into three broad areas:
(A) studies relating to the modern corporation, corporate organisation, finance and governance and theories of the firm;
(B) 'de-industrialisation' in advanced economies; North-South competition and issues of employment and unemployment in the North and the South;
(C) industrialisation and economic policy in emerging markets.
All these subjects continue to be very important in the real world and they have significant implications both for economic theory and for policy. I have continued to extend my research both conceptually and empirically in each of the above areas while integrating developing countries more fully in a common analytical framework.
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 Enterprise and Innovation
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 Corporate Governance Programme
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Ajit Singh is an Indian economist who graduated from Punjab University and
obtained his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, and has been
teaching economics at Cambridge University since 1965. He is currently Professor
of Economics at the University and Senior Fellow at Queens' College Cambridge.
He has been a senior economic adviser to the governments of Mexico and Tanzania
and a consultant to various UN developmental organisations, including the
World Bank, the ILO, UNCTAD and UNIDO.
CBR
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Other Publications
Professor Singh has published many CBR Working Papers, including
most recently Dasgupta.S and Singh. A (September 2005) 'Will Services Be The New
Engine of Economic Growth in India?',
CBR Working Paper no. 310; and
De Hoyos. R,. Glen. J., Singh. Ajit., Singh. Alaka., Weisse, B. and and Zammit. A. (September 2005),
'Shareholder Value Maximisation, Stock Market and New Technology: Should the US Corporate Model
Be the Universal Standard?',
CBR Working Paper no. 315.
He is the author of Takeovers:
Their Relevance to the Stockmarket and the Theory of the Firm and co-author
of Growth, Profitability and Valuation, both published by Cambridge
University Press. He has also published extensively in academic economic
journals. His books include his co-edited volume with C. Howes Competitiveness Matters: Industry
and Economic Performance in the U.S., published in 2000 by the University of Michigan
Press; the edited volume, (with A. Dutt and K. Kim), The State, Markets and Development, Edward Elgar, 1994;
and the monographs, Corporate Financial Patterns in Industrialising Countries,
Technical Paper No.2, World Bank/IFC, Washington, DC, 1995 and, (with G.
Whittington and V. Saporta), The Effects of Hyper-Inflation on Accounting
Ratios: Financing Corporate Growth in Industrialising Economies, Technical
Paper No 3, World Bank/IFC, 1997.
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