Research Interests
Global Finance & Banking, International Institutions, Trade
Areas of Interest
Growth, Development, India, China, Trade
Biography
Arvind Subramanian is a senior fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and a distinguished non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development. He was previously a professor at Ashoka University, a visiting lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School (2018-2020) and the chief economic adviser to the government of India between October 2014 and July 2018. Foreign Policy magazine named him as one of the world's top 100 global thinkers in 2011.
Research
The economics of India, international trade and economic growth.
Publications
India's Export-Led Growth: Exemplar and Exception
Dynamism With Incommensurate Development: The Distinctive Indian Model
Validating India's GDP Growth Estimates
The Hyperglobalization of Trade and Its Future
Institutions Rule: The Primacy of Institutions over Geography and Integration in Economic Development
Why Did Financial Globalization Disappoint?
Aid and Growth: What does the Cross-Country Evidence Really Show?
Arvind Subramanian comments for Hindustan Times, "If the US breaches the limit, then financial markets panic because trust in the single most trusted borrower in the world — Uncle Sam — is jeopardised. And literally every interest rate in every market in the world is priced off US government bonds (the debt). So, if this market is rattled, the risk is of all global markets being rattled."
Senior Fellow Arvind Subramanian wrote an opinion piece for The Daily Star advocating for competitive technological progress as a tool to fight climate change.
The Daily Star article co-authored by Arvind Subramanian explains how disruptions in the economy will most likely transform the global trading system, rather than shrink it, with the impact varying across the countries.