Girish Mohan Dubey
Girish Mohan Dubey (Prof.) is a Head of Department of Economics, Dr. Harisingh Gour, a Central University, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, with more than thirty years of experience in teaching. He strive to create a challenging and engaging learning in which students become lifelong earner. He also served as Proctor and First Appellate Authority of the Sagar University. He has published more than sixty articles in a reputed journals nationally and also internationally along with he has also chaired more than fifty seminars/conferences. He is also a executive member of Indian Economic Association (IEA), Indian Economists' Trust (IEAT), Uttarakhand-Uttar pradesh Economic Association (UPUEA).
Papers Published in World Economics:
The Informal Economy of the BRICS
This article evaluates the impact of trade liberalisation on the informal economy in the BRICS countries, which have significant unorganised sectors and trade policy changes. The article uses panel data from 1996 to 2015 to measure informality based on the method of Kaufmann and Kaliberda, which estimates the size of the informal sector as the difference between official GDP and electricity consumption. It finds that trade liberalisation has increased informality in the BRICS countries, implying that globalisation and economic growth have not benefited the unorganised sector or reduced inequality and development issues. It suggests that trade policy reforms should be accompanied by measures to improve governance, regulation, social protection and formalisation of the informal sector.
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