Ranjula Bali Swain
Visiting teacher at Nationalekonomiska institutionen; Anknutna forskare och lärare
- E-mail:
- ranjula.bali@nek.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ekonomikum
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10 - Postal address:
- Box 513
751 20 UPPSALA
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Biography
Ranjula Bali Swain is Research Director at Center for Sustainability Research, SIR, Stockholm School of Economics and a Professor of Economics at Södertörn University. Her research focuses on Economic Development, Sustainable Finance, Sustainable Development, Gender and Circular Economy. Bali Swain has received and led various research grants from Swedish Research Council (VR and Uforsk), Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (Formas), Swedish International Development Cooperation (Sida), Swedish Energy Agency etc. She is also affiliated to the Center for European Research in Microfinance (CERMi), at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management. Bali Swain has worked at the International Labour Organisation, Geneva; Uppsala University and has been Visiting Professor at University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, Tufts University, University of Pretoria, South Africa and UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, New York, USA etc.
Publications
Selection of publications
- Modeling interlinkages between sustainable development goals using network analysis (2021)
- Last night in Sweden? (2020)
- Renewable Electricity and Sustainable Development Goals in the EU (2020)
- Regulation, Governance and the Role of the Informal Sector in Influencing Environmental Quality? (2020)
- Achieving sustainable development goals (2020)
- Can upstream ecosystems ensure safe drinking water (2020)
- Sustainable development and global emission targets (2018)
- Environmental Challenges in the Baltic Region (2017)
- Setting development goals using stochastic, dynamical system models (2017)
- The Sustainable Development Oxymoron (2017)
Recent publications
- Group-based financial services in the global south (2021)
- Modeling interlinkages between sustainable development goals using network analysis (2021)
- Last night in Sweden? (2020)
- Does Foreign Aid Improve Gender Performance In Recipient Countries? (2020)
- Renewable Electricity and Sustainable Development Goals in the EU (2020)
All publications
Articles
- Modeling interlinkages between sustainable development goals using network analysis (2021)
- Last night in Sweden? (2020)
- Does Foreign Aid Improve Gender Performance In Recipient Countries? (2020)
- Renewable Electricity and Sustainable Development Goals in the EU (2020)
- Regulation, Governance and the Role of the Informal Sector in Influencing Environmental Quality? (2020)
- Achieving sustainable development goals (2020)
- Income and food Engel curves in Rwanda: A household microdata analysis (2020)
- Can upstream ecosystems ensure safe drinking water (2020)
- Competition, performance and portfolio quality in microfinance markets (2018)
- Are Microfinance Markets Monopolistic? (2018)
- Sustainable development and global emission targets (2018)
- The impact of microfinance on factors empowering women (2017)
- Setting development goals using stochastic, dynamical system models (2017)
- The Sustainable Development Oxymoron (2017)
- Growth, Water Resilience, and Sustainability (2016)
- Microfinance, Vulnerability and Risk in Low Income Households (2014)
- Microfinance, Vulnerability and Poverty among Low Income Households (2014)
- Evaluating the Impact of Training in Self Help Groups in India (2014)
- Interest Rates and Financial Performance of Microfinance Institutions (2014)
- Delivery mechanisms and impact of microfinance training in indian self-help groups (2013)
- Food Security, Gender, and Occupational Choice among Urban Low-Income Households (2013)
- Differential impact of microfinance delivery mechanism on vulnerability (2012)
- Assessing the Effect of Microfinance on Vulnerability and Poverty among Low Income Households (2012)
- Factors Empowering Women in Indian Self Help Group Program (2012)
- Zambezi River Basin (2012)
- Reassessing the Impact of SHG Participation with Non-experimental Approaches (2011)
- Microfinance- inefficient universal cure or medicine? (Mikrofinansiering – ineffektivt botemedel eller universalmedicin?, in Swedish) (2010)
- Financial Services for low-income households (2009)
- Money With a Mission, Volume 1, Microfinance and Poverty Reduction, by James Copestake, Martin Greely, Susan Johnson, Naila Kabeer, and Anton Simanowitz. Warwickshire, UK: Practical Action, 2006. 272 pp. ISBN-978-1853396144 (2009)
- Does Self Help Group Participation Lead to Asset Creation? (2009)
- Does microfinance empower women? (2009)
- Microfinance and Poverty Reduction in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam (2008)
- Empowering Women through Microfinance (2008)
- Access to Rural Credit in Vietnam (2008)
- The Demand and Supply of Credit for households (2007)
- Can Microfinance Empower Women? Self-Help Groups in India (2007)
- Microfinance (2006)
- Credit Rationing in Rural India (2002)
- Assessment Guidelines to the Quasi-Experimental Design for I-WEB and Managing People programmes in Trinidad and Tobago (2001)
- Credit programs in Eritrea (1998)
- Sustainable Development in the Wake of Covid-19
Books
- Environmental Challenges in the Baltic Region (2017)
- The Microfinance Impact (2012)
- Climate Change and the Risk of Violent Conflicts in Southern Africa (2011)
- The democratisation of finance (2005)
- Demand, segmentation and rationing in the rural credit markets of Puri (2001)
- The Agrarian Credit Markets, Rate of Interest and the Collateral: Some Indian Evidence. (1995)
Chapters
- Group-based financial services in the global south (2021)
- Competition in Microfinance: Does it affect Performance, Portfolio quality and Capitalization? (2014)
- Reducing Poverty and Empowering Women through Microfinance (2010)
- Financial Services for low-income households (2010)
- Microfinance in Sweden (2009)
- Microfinance and Women empowerment (2007)
- Contemporary Macroeconomic Issues in Developing Economies (2004)
- A Critical Report on the Econometric Analysis of the Prices of Food Grains in India (1997)
- Participation: Challenges for Policy and Practice in Approaches to Poverty Reduction and Democratisation
Conferences
Reports
- Does revolution change risk attitudes? (2019)
- Growth. Water Resilience and Sustainability: A DSGE Model Applied to South Africa (2015)
- Setting Sustainable Development Goals – A Dynamical Systems approach (2014)
- The impact of microfinance on factors empowering women: Differences in regional and delivery mechanisms in India’s SHG programme (2014)
- The impact of microfinance on factors empowering women: Regional and Delivery Mechanisms in India’s SHG Programme (2014)
- Growth, Water Resilience, and Sustainability (2014)
- Competition, performance and portfolio quality in microfinance markets (2014)
- Analysing Mechanisms for Meeting Global Emissions Target - A Dynamical Systems Approach (2014)
- A Dynamical Systems Approach to Modeling Human Development (2014)
- Time Investment by Parents in Cognitive and Non-cognitive Childcare Activities (2013)
- Impact of Technological Change on the Incidence of Child Labour in the Indian Match Industry (2011)
- Delivery Mechanisms and Impact of Training through Microfinance (2011)
- M. Floro and Bali Swain, R., "Food Security, Gender and Occupational Choice Among Urban Low-Income Households" Working paper No. 2010-6, Department of Economics, American University, Washington DC, May 2010 (2010)
- Reducing Vulnerability through Microfinance (2010)
- Being Patient with Microfinance (2010)
- Microfinance ‘Plus’ (2010)
- The Impact of Skill Development and Human Capital Training on Self Help Groups (2009)
- Does Self Help Group Participation Lead to Asset Creation? (2008)
- Economic or Non-Economic Factors – What Empowers Women? (2008)
- Effect Of Microfinance On Vulnerability, Poverty and Risk In Low Income Households (2007)
- Does Microfinance Empower Women?: Evidence from Self Help Groups in India (2007)
- Microfinance and Women's empowerment (2006)
- Evidence from Impact Assessment (2004)
- Steps Towards Impact Assessment of SED Interventions on Employment, SEED, ILO (2002)
