Amarendra Sahoo

Amarendra Sahoo is currently working as an International Visiting Scientist and research fellow at PEP-Nairobi, where he is engaged in studies related to food and water securities. He has a Ph.D. degree in Economics from Tilburg University, The Netherlands. His dissertation is related to impact of competitive pressure on productivity-efficiency of the economy and household welfare distributions. Prior to his current assignment, Amarendra Sahoo has served as a researcher in Leiden University (The Netherlands), research fellow in University College Dublin, external consultant at ECORYS (The Netherlands), economist at the National Council of Applied Economic Research (New Delhi), consultant in The Indian Planning Commission (New Delhi) and researcher at Indian Statistical Institute (New Delhi). His major fields of interest broadly include: applied macroeconomics, development economics, computable general equilibrium modeling and input-output analysis.

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Fields of specialization

Poverty and inequality , Fiscal policy, Globalization and trade

Projects

Title	Country	Themes
Economy-wide impacts of Technological Change in Food Staples in Ethiopia	Ethiopia	Poverty and Inequality , Agriculture and food security
A CGE analysis of the implications of technological change in Indian agriculture	India	Agriculture and food security
Economy wide Impacts of Promising Maize and Wheat Technologies on Food Security and Welfare in Kenya	Kenya	Agriculture and food security
The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Household Welfare and Poverty in India	India	Poverty and Inequality , Globalization and trade

Details

Dr. Amarendra Sahoo
Visiting Scientist
ICIPE, Nairobi, Kenya
PEP

Contact information:

Kenya
amar_sahoo@hotmail.com
nl.linkedin.com/pub/amarendra-sahoo/13/3a5/525/