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Padma Desai (October 12, 1931 – April 29, 2023) was an Indian-American development economist who was the Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of comparative economic systems and director of the Center for Transition Economies at Columbia University.
- Padma Bhushan (2009)
6. Mai 2023 · Padma Desai, economist, 1931-2023. The scholar, who overcame many personal setbacks, produced groundbreaking work on Indian and Soviet industrial policy. Padma Desai, as a graduate student...
- Shruti Rajagopalan
Padma Desai is a Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Comparative Economic Systems and the Director of the Center for Transition Economies at Columbia University. She is a leading economist who has written on topics such as the political economy of India, the role of the state in development, and the transition to democracy.
Padma Desai, Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Comparative Economic Systems and Director of the Center for Transition Economies, joined the Columbia faculty in 1980 as Professor of Economics. After earning her undergraduate and M.A. degrees in Bombay, Desai made the journey to Harvard in 1955 for her Ph.D. degree in economics on a ...
Padma Desai, a pioneering economist and expert on the Russian economy as it made the transition from communism, passed away in April 2023. This column outlines her many contributions over several decades to our understanding of barriers to economic development in pre-reform India, the former Soviet Union and further afield, as well as her ...
Padma Desai, Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor Emerita of Comparative Economic Systems and Director of the Center for Transition Economies at Columbia University, received her PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1960, where she began her teaching career.
15. Mai 2023 · Padma Desai (AB ‘57, PhD ‘60) was an extraordinary scholar, friend, and supporter of Soviet and Russian Studies. Training as an economist at Harvard under Alexander Gerschenkron and Robert Solow, Dr. Desai initially specialized in understanding how misallocation slowed the Soviet economy during the Cold War. Her work extended lessons from ...
