CURRICULUM VITAE A. Name: TAPAS KUMAR SEN B. Date of Birth: February 01, 1956 C. Sex: Male D. Nationality: Indian E. Current Address: National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, 18/2 Special Institutional Area, New Delhi - 110067, India. Telephone: 91-11-26963421/ 26569303 (office), 26867428 (Res.) Fax: 91-11-6852548 Email: [email protected], or [email protected] F. Permanent Address: H/o Late M. B. Sen, Pandit Laxminarayan Lane, Sambalpur-768001, Odisha, India. G. Father's Name: Late Mukti Bhushan Sen H. Marital Status: Married - with two daughters. I. Qualifications: 1. B.A. (Hons. in Economics) I class from Sambalpur University, India with distinction in all other subjects in 1974. 2. M.A. (Economics) from Sambalpur University, India in 1976 (I class – First Rank). 3. Ph. D. from University of Pune, India in 1983. Work on dissertation entitled "Shifting of Corporate Income Tax in India" carried out at Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune. J. Experience: i. Worked as Economist in the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy from October 1981 to April 1985, as Senior Economist until May 1994, as Fellow (Associate Professor) until October 1999 and as Senior Fellow (the position was re-designated as Professor) since then. ii. Visiting scholar at the Department of Economics, University of Maryland, U.S.A. from August 1984 to May 1985. iii. Visiting Fellow at Department of Economics, Shivaji University, Kolhapur for four weeks during December 1985. Delivered several lectures to the M.A. and M.Phil. students of the department as also to the staff and students of other local academic institutions during this period. iv. Visiting scholar at STICERD, London School of Economics for two weeks in September 1993. v. Have been a member of the research team of the Institute working on fiscal federalism in Canada and in Sri Lanka (twice). The clients in Sri Lanka were the Finance Commission, the constitutional body overseeing centre-province financial relations in the country and the Ministry of Finance, Government of Sri Lanka. vi. Have undertaken several personal consultancies for the World Bank [in Indian states (Orissa – four times, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, West Bengal and Uttarakhand and one cross-state evaluation study) as well as in Ethiopia, and one on PPPs in India], Asian Development Bank (five times, out of which three were in the states of Kerala, Madhya Pradesh and Mizoram and two evaluation tasks), European Commission (through local contractor in the state of Chhattisgarh, India), UN-ESCAP, UNDP and Forum of Federations, Canada (in Nigeria). vii. Led the NIPFP team for preparing the Draft 12th Five Year Plan of Sikkim (submitted to the Planning Department, Government of Sikkim in August, 2012). K. Publications and Other Research Reports/Papers (Newspaper articles not included): 1. "Empirical Testing of Tax Implications in the Williamson Model: A Suggested Approach", Public Finance, No.3 1979. 2. "Municipal Finances: A Simple Comparative Analysis" (co-author), paper presented in the Seminar on Urban Finances held at Shivaji University, Kolhapur in January 1979. 3. Income Responsiveness of State Taxes in Maharashtra (co- author), report submitted to the Government of Maharashtra, NIPFP, July 1983. 4. Relative Taxable Capacity and Tax Effort of Indian States, report submitted to the Eighth Finance Commission, NIPFP, October 1983. 5. Forecasting Major Subsidies of the Central Government, report submitted to the Eighth Finance Commission, NIPFP, November 1983. 6. "Estimating the Revenue Effects of Selective Changes in Excises" (co-author), paper for discussion at the Tax Research Division, CBEC, Ministry of Finance, New Delhi, October 1983. 7. "Determining the Impact of the Monsoon on the Budget: An Approach to the Problem", paper submitted to the Committee on Change in Financial Year for NIPFP, August 1984; reproduced as Appendix 6 in the report of the Committee. 8. Corporate Income Tax and Profit Rates, Criterion: New Delhi, 1984. (Revised version of the Ph.D. dissertation). 9. Inflation and Taxation of Capital Income in the Corporate Sector, report submitted to ICICI, 1984. Since published by NIPFP with the title Inflation Accounting and Corporate Taxation in 1987. 10. "Inflation and Corporate Accounting", Fortune India, June 1986. 11. "Evasion of Indirect Taxes and Market Structure" (co-author), Working Paper No. 28, NIPFP, March 1987. This paper was earlier presented in two conferences at Indian Statistical Instiutute, New Delhi and Presidency College, Calcutta. 12. "Determination of Share Prices in India: An Analysis of the Aggregate Time Trend", Working paper No. 32, NIPFP, August 1987. 13. "Reducing Government Controls: Who'll Bell the Cat?" Fortune India, September 1987. 14. "Fiscal Defiance and Tax Evasion" (co-author); paper presented in a conference at Presidency College, Calcutta, February 1988. 15. "Issues before the Ninth Finance Commission" (co-author), Economic and Political Weekly, March 1988. 16. Sales Tax in Orissa (co-author), Report submitted to Government of Orissa, NIPFP, April 1988. 17. Taxable Capacity and Tax effort of States in India (co-author), report submitted to the Ninth Finance Commission, NIPFP, September 1988. Supplementary Report submitted in December 1988. 18. "Business Property Tax as an Alternative to Octroi" (co-author), Economic & Political Weekly, March 4, 1989. 19. Kerala's Revenue Potential - Projections for 1990-95 (co-author), Report submitted to the Government of Kerala, NIPFP, August 1989. 20. "Sales Tax Evasion in India: Some Issues", Bulletin for International Fiscal Documentation, 1990: 12, pp. 605 -608. 21. "Fiscal Decentralisation in India" (co-author), in Development Papers No.11, 1991, UN-ESCAP, Bangkok. 22. "Overview of State Finances in India" (co-author), in A Bagchi, J L Bajaj and W A Byrd (ed.), State Finances in India, New Delhi: Vikas, 1992. 23. "Public Expenditure on Human Development in India: Trends and Issues", in Kirit Parikh and R Sudarshan (ed.s) (1993), Human Development and Structural Adjustment, MacMillan, New Delhi. 24. Some Aspects of Kerala State Finances (co-author). Forms Appendix III of the Report of the Resources Commission, Government of Kerala, Trivandrum, 1993. 25. Management of Public Finances in Punjab: Interim Report (co- author), Report submitted to the Government of Punjab, NIPFP, 1993. 26. Government Expenditure in India: Level, Growth and Composition (co-author), Report submitted to the World Bank, NIPFP, 1993. 27. "Issues before the Tenth Finance Commission" (co-author), Economic and Political Weekly, November 1993. 28. Management of Public Finances in Punjab: Final Report, Report submitted to the Government of Punjab, NIPFP, April 1994. 29. "Implications of 1994-95 Budget for Growth and Stability" (co- author), Economic and Political Weekly, April 16-23, 1994. 30. Passenger and Goods Tax for Delhi: Pros and Cons (co-author), Report submitted to the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi, NIPFP, February 1995. 31. "Economic Reforms, Industrial Growth and Development at the State Level", Centre for New Perspectives, New Delhi, April 1995. 32. "Intergovernmental Transfers and Equalisation in India" (co- author), in Christine Fletcher (ed.)(1996), Equity and Development Across Nations, Allen and Unwin, St. Leonards, Australia. 33. Fiscal Federalism in India: Theory and Practice (co-author), Report submitted to the Conference Board of Canada, NIPFP, May 1995. Revised version published by MacMillan India, New Delhi as a monograph with the same title in 1997. 34. "Fiscal Federalism in Canada and India: A Comparative Analysis", Technical Paper Series, publication No. 2, Canada-India Institutional Linkage Programme, Conference Board of Canada, Ottawa, October 1995. 35. "Public Finance and Economic Development; Lessons from India" (co-author), Asia-Pacific Development Journal, June 1995. 36. "Uneven Growth of Government Expenditure in India: An Analysis of the Trends Between 1974-75 and 1990- 91" (co- author), Journal of Indian School of Political Economy, June 1995. 37. "Public Expenditure Policy and Management in India: A Consideration of the Issues" (co-author), Working Paper No. 8, NIPFP, June 1996. 38. "Tax Revenues of States: Projections upto 2001-2002", Background paper for the Working Group on States' Resources, Planning Commission, New Delhi, May 1996. 39. "Expenditure Management: A Note on Policy", background paper prepared for the Sub-Group on Expenditure Management, Budget Formulation and Implementation, Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance, New Delhi. 40. "Revenue Receipts of Orissa", paper prepared for the World Bank, June 1996. 41. "Government Expenditure in Uttar Pradesh", a paper prepared for the Committee on Resource Mobilisation and Tax Reform, Government of Uttar Pradesh, July 1996. 42. “Tax Revenues in Karnataka”, paper prepared for the World Bank, January 1997. 43. Government Subsidies in India (co-author), NIPFP, New Delhi, 1997. 44. Tax Administration at the State Level: Profession Tax, Report prepared for UNDP, NIPFP, September 1997. 45. "Excise Policy in Indian States: A Note", presented in the National Workshop on Alcohol Policy: Health Perspectives, held at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, September 25-26, 1997. 46. Fiscal Trends in Maharashtra (co-author), Report Submitted to IDFC, NIPFP, July 1998. 47. Fiscal Federalism in Ethiopia , Report submitted to the World Bank, August 1998. 48. State Fiscal Studies: Haryana (co-author), Report submitted