Jitendra Gopal Borpujari

Jitendra Gopal Borpujari (31 August 1942 – 16 December 2009)[1] was an economist on the executive board of the International Monetary Fund from 1996 to 2005, and the Principal Economist of the Socio-Economic Data Division at World Bank.[2]

Jitendra Gopal Borpujari
Born31 August 1942
Barbheta, Assam, India
Died16 December 2009
NationalityIndian
EducationClare College, University of Cambridge (PhD)
EmployerWorld Bank

International Monetary Fund

Centre for Strategic and International Studies
Known forFiscal Policy
Board member ofInternational Monetary Fund

His initial research focused on the effect of British policies on the Indian economy,[3][4] which later progressed to research on fiscal policy for developing economies.[5][6][7]

Education

Jitendra was born in Barbheta in Jorhat district of Assam, India.[2] He attended the Jorhat Government High School and Cotton College, matriculating in 1958 and 1960, respectively.[2] He pursued an Economics Honours from Madras Christian College and a Masters in Economics from Delhi University.[2] He secured a Commonwealth Scholarship to pursue his PhD from Clare College, Cambridge University, UK and graduated in 1969.[2] He joined World Bank as an economist shortly after receiving his doctorate.[8]

References
  1. Borpujari, Jitendra (8 June 2019). "Obituary". legacy.com.
  2. "Economist JG Barpujari passes away | Posoowa". posoowa.assam.org. Retrieved 2019-06-08.
  3. Borpujari, Jitendra G. (1973-01-01). "Indian Cottons and the Cotton Famine, 1860-65". The Indian Economic & Social History Review. 10 (1): 37–49. doi:10.1177/001946467301000102. ISSN 0019-4646. S2CID 146450517.
  4. Borpujari, Jitendra G. (1973-01-01). "The Impact of the Transit Duty System in British India". The Indian Economic & Social History Review. 10 (3): 218–241. doi:10.1177/001946467301000302. ISSN 0019-4646. S2CID 143989324.
  5. Borpujari, J. G. (1980-01-01), "Production and Monetization in the Subsistence Sector**Printed by permission of the author.", in Coats, WARREN L.; Khatkhate, DEENA R. (eds.), Money and Monetary Policy in Less Developed Countries, Pergamon, pp. 85–93, doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-024041-1.50012-0, ISBN 9780080240411
  6. Borpujari, Jitendra G.; Ter-Minassian, Teresa (1973-11-01). "El método del saldo presupuestario ponderado para el análisis fiscal: una metodología y algunos estudios de casos". Staff Papers (in Spanish). 20 (3): 801–831. doi:10.2307/3866527. ISSN 1564-5150. JSTOR 3866527.
  7. Borpujari, Jitendra G. (1987). "Consumption and Productivity Patterns and their Implications for the Production Structure". In Pasinetti, Luigi; Lloyd, Peter (eds.). Structural Change, Economic Interdependence and World Development. Structural Change, Economic Interdependence and World Development: Volume 3: Structural Change and Adjustment in the World Economy. International Economic Association Series. Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 75–90. doi:10.1007/978-1-349-18840-6_6. ISBN 9781349188406.
  8. "Staying away from rat races". The Sentinel. 2017-05-14. Retrieved 2019-06-08.
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