Vishwa Nath Alok
Professor
Public Finance
Foreign Service Institute
India
Biography
Sep 1999 – present : Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi as Associate Professor of Public Finance since March 2008. Prior to that, Assistant Professor of Public Finance The description of duties, achievements and responsibilities include: · Coordinating all the academic, financial and administrative activities of the Centre for Urban Studies with the strength of 25 sanctioned posts including 10 faculty positions for which grant-in-aid (non-plan) is received from the Union Ministry of Urban Development since 1966.
Research Interest
Public Sector Management, Public Finance, Fiscal Decentralization, Fiscal Federalism, Inter governmental Fiscal Relations, State Finance, Municipal Finance, Metropolitan Governance, Urban Finance, Fiscal Harmonization, Tax Policy, Tax Reforms, Value Added Tax, Transition to Goods and Service Tax, State-local Relations, Devolution Index, Industrial Economics etc.
Publications
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(2013) Strengthening of Panchayats in India: Comparing Devolution across States [an abridged version of the report of the same title], in Indian Journal of Public Administration, vol. LIX, No. 1, Jan-Mar.
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(2013) Thirteenth Finance Commission on Urban Governance and Service Delivery: Some Neglected Recommendations, Nagarlok, Vol. XLV, Jan-Mar 2013, No. 1.
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(2013) Leadership matters at the grassroots – a report on the field visit to Punsari gram panchayat, Sabarkantha district, in Inclusion, Special Supplement, July – Sep, Vol 4, Issue 3, 2013. [Jointly with Meenakshi Datta Ghosh and G Palanithurai]
