Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur |

My major research interests include Development and Macro Economics with special focus Public Policy related to the Indian Economy. So far I have worked on issues like employment intensity of growth, infrastructure and human development, infrastructure and agricultural productivity, participation and public service delivery, forest sustainabilty and drivers of forest loss, payments for enviornmental services, socioeconomic and cultural aspects of Ganga River basin, transition rates of education, issues and determinants of FDI, regional inequalities and convergence measures, MFI, mission drift and repayment risks, health financing and healthcare choices among the elderly, cost of dying, giving behaviour and economics of generosity, risk assessment of coastal hazards, assessment of food subsidy scheme in the Indian context, and MGNREGA processes, procedures, convergence, distress migration and impact assessment. In pursuance of furthering my research in issues of contemporary relevance, currently, I am carrying out research on MGNREGA and distress migration, financial inclusion, and food and nutrition vulnerability during COVID. Besides, I am supervising students on a wide variety of issues including economics of cyclone: forecasting, measuring welfare loss and identifying coping and adaptation strategies; green innovation, growth and firm performance; food security and household welfare; MGNREGA and migration; personal finances and their determinants; etc. In addition to providing research guidance to the students, I have collaborated with various national and international agencies including UNDP, ICAR, ICSSR, Government of Odisha, Ministries of Rural Developemnt, Environment and Forests and HRD, New Delhi, and Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute.

All Publications

Borrowers credit risk factors, perception towards repayment interventions and moral hazard in loan delinquency: an investigation of Indian microfinance institutions Sangwan S., Nayak N.C., Harshita, Sangwan V. By Applied Economics 53 6554-6569 (2021)
Understanding the role of participation in public service delivery: Evidences from rural West Bengal Nayak N. C., Samanta D. By International Journal of Public Administration 37 875-884 (2014)
Impact of tropical cyclones on sustainable development through loops and cycles: Evidence from select developing countries of Asia Sen S., Nayak N. C., Mohanty W. K. By Empirical Economics - 1-32 (2023)
Estimating household vulnerability to tropical cyclones: An investigation of tropical cyclone shocks in coastal villages of eastern India Sen S., Nayak N.C., Mohanty W.K. By International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 83 - (2022)
Magnitude and determinants of inpatient health expenditure among the elderly in India Chatterjee C., Nayak N. C., Mahakud J. By International Journal of Health Planning and Management 37 1402-1420 (2022)
Vulnerability and risk perceptions of hydrometeorological disasters: a study of a coastal district of Odisha, India Sen S., Nayak N.C., Mohanty W.K., Keshri C.K. By GeoJournal Published online on 5 April 1-21 (2022)
Multidimensional impact of food security on household welfare: Evidences from a household survey in three Indian states Satapathy J., Nayak N. C., Mahakud J. By International Journal of Social Economics 47 913-932 (2020)
Foreign Direct Investment in India: Emerging Horizon Vani Archana, N C Nayak, B Basu By Indian Economic Review 42(2), Delhi School of Economics 255-266 (2007)
Investigating preferences between cash and in-kind transfers among the food subsidy beneficiaries of India Satapathy J., Nayak N.C., Mahakud J. By Journal of Public Affairs - (2021)
Determinants of Individual Giving Behavior in Urban India Sen A., Chatterjee R. S., Nayak N. C., Mahakud J. By Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations 31 271-285 (2020)

Completed Projects

Principal Investigator

Impact of Labour Market Security and Covid-19 on Dynamic of Rural Migrant Worker

Co-Principal Investigator

Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP) of Talcher Coalfields, Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL), CI, GoI Mahanadi Coalfields Limited

Alumni members

Ph. D. Students

Aditi Sen

Area of Research: Behavioural Finance