Dr. Vinod Kumar Rana
Ph.D. & M.Phil (Economics), Himachal PradeshUniversity, Shimla, India
Expertise: State Accounts Statistics, State Finances, Macroeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Environmental Accounting, Experimental Economics, Public Economics, and Human Development Issues.
Life Member: Indian Association for Research in National Income and Wealth (IARNIW)
Currently Member of Executive Committee [IARNIW]
Dr Vinod Rana, is the Economic Adviser in the Economic & Statistics Department of Government of Himachal Pradesh. The Directorate of Economics & Statistics, Government of Himachal Pradesh is the nodal agency for collection, compilation, analysis of statistics relating to various sectors of Himachal Pradesh Economy. The main functions of the Department is to build firm and broad data bank for the Pradesh so as to serve as useful data base for all plan and policy formulations, bring out the estimates of GSDP/State Income/District income and the economic growth, Capital formation, participating in the Socio-Economic service of National Sample Surveys, Government of India, conduct of various studies and Surveys and coordinate various Statistical activities of different departments in the State.
The most important work of the department is to estimate the State Income / District Income which has now being recognized significant and reliable indicators to measure the economic growth of the state. These estimates are presented in the Economic Survey during budget session of Vidhan Sabha every year. The state income estimates also help in studying the sectoral /regional development imbalances, formulation of taxation policies and receiving central grants etc.
Dr Rana has 20 years of research experience and he has published 12 papers/reports on various issues.
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