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data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2172\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Research Areas<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-2173\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2173\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Research Publications<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-2174\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"4\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2174\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Projects<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-2175\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"5\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2175\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Teaching Interests<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tabs-content-wrapper\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"true\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2171\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Bio<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-2171\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-2171\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"false\"><div>Prof Lakshmi Kumar has been the Dean of IFMR Graduate School of Business since March 2022, having been in the institution since January 2000.\u00a0\u00a0She has held several administrative positions including MBA Chair, PhD Chair, EMBA Chair and Alumni Chair at the institution before assuming the office of Dean. She handles Macroeconomics, Managerial Economics, International Business, Microfinance and Entrepreneurship both at the business school as well as in management development programs from corporates and the government.<\/div><div><p>She is passionate about understanding the financial behaviour of low-income households, rural livelihoods and analysis of Government-provided basic services. Prof Lakshmi has also participated in various field-based studies in Tamil Nadu, including projects sponsored by Harvard University, DFID UK, NSE India, University of California, Irvine and NABARD, India.<\/p><p>Her educational background includes a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Mathematics (1984), a Master\u2019s in Econometrics (1987) from the University of Madras and PhD from IIT Madras in 2008.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2172\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Research Areas<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-2172\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-2172\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><ul>\n \t<li>Macro Economic Modelling &#038; Analysis<\/li>\n \t<li>Development Economics including education, health and poverty reduction<\/li>\n<li>Entreprenurship including incubation and accelerator model<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2173\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Research Publications<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-2173\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-2173\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><ul><li>Augustine, B., &amp; Kumar, L. (2020). Original Sin, Currency Depreciation and External Debt Burden: Evidence from India. International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, 10(3), 58-68.<\/li><li>Thomas, A., &amp; Kumar, L. (2019). Unconventional monetary policy spillovers: Evidence from India.\u00a0<em>Journal of Public Affairs<\/em>,\u00a0<em>19<\/em>(4), e1940.<\/li><li>Dash, S. K. &amp; Kumar, L. (2018). Does Inflation Harm Saving? Evidence from India, Margin: The Journal of Applied Economic Research, 12(4), 431-457<\/li><li>Lakshmi Kumar and Swati Dutta (2015), Is Poverty Stochastic or Structural in Nature? Evidence from Rural India, <em>Social Indicators Research<\/em>, August 2015.<\/li><li>Lakshmi Kumar and Swati Dutta(2015), Role of mobile money in replacing cash:A study among migrant workers in South India, <em>Economic and Political Weekly<\/em>, Vol.L(Issue 28).<\/li><li>Lakshmi Kumar, (2014), Cooperative Banks in India:Alternative Banks Impervious to the Global Crisis in Alternative Banking and Financial Crisis, edited by Oliver Butzbach and Kurt von Mettenheim, Pickerings and Chatto Publishers, UK<\/li><li>Lakshmi Kumar and Jyoti Prasad Mukhopadhyay. (2013), SHGs and Micro finance: A tale of two poor women in rural Tamil Nadu, Journal of Rural Development, Vol32, No. 3.<\/li><li>Swati Dutta and Lakshmi Kumar (2013) Poverty Dynamics in Rural India: An Asset-Based Approach, <em>Margin,<\/em>Vol 7, No. 4.<\/li><li>Lakshmi Kumar (2013) Illusion of Women Empowerment in Microfinance: A Case Study, <em>Economic and Political Weekly<\/em>, Vol.48 (Issue 15)<\/li><li>Lakshmi Kumar, D Malathy, L S Ganesh ( 2011), The diffusion of ATM technology in Indian Banking, <em>Journal of Economics Studies<\/em>, Vol. 38 (Issue 4).<\/li><li>Lakshmi Kumar, Swati Dutta and Anitha Rao (2011) Can Literacy Alleviate Poverty? A study of Indian States, <em>The Asian Economic Review,<\/em> 53 (Issue 2).<\/li><li>Lakshmi Kumar, D Malathy, L S Ganesh (2010), Productivity growth and efficiency change in Indian Banking-Technology effect versus Catch up effect, <em>Journal of Advances in Management Research<\/em>, Vol. 8 (Issue 2).<\/li><li>Lakshmi Kumar and R Madhumathi (2004) Multifactor evaluation and forecasting of Bank performance in India,<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"4\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2174\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Projects<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-2174\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"4\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-2174\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><ul>\n \t<li>Studying the impact of various types of pedagogy with respect to learning outcomes in the MBA classroom. 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(2014-15).<\/li>\n \t<li>Worked on a NABARD project on understanding voluntary savings among SHG members and SHGs as agents of change. (2014-15)<\/li>\n \t<li>Worked on an IMTFI (University of California, Irvine) sponsored project to understand how mobile money has replaced cash among migrant workers in South India. 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