D T Lakdawala was a noted Indian economist. His contributions in the area of poverty measurement continue to be relevant today. He spent most of his life as an academic at
Mumbai University
The University of Mumbai is a collegiate, state-owned, public research university in Mumbai.
The University of Mumbai is one of the largest universities in the world. , the university had 711 affiliated colleges. Ratan Tata is the appointed ...
. He also served as Deputy Chairman of the
Planning Commission and Director of the
Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy
The Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) is an independent private limited entity that serves both as an economic think-tank as well as a business information company. CMIE research group has built databases on the Indian economy and pri ...
.
External links
New Kerala 24 x 7 Online News Channel Gujarat University, Department of Economics (Web Archive)
20th-century Indian economists
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