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CV for International Consultancy
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1. Name of Expert: MR. TARUN KANTI DAS, Ph.D.
2A.Permanent Residential Address: 10/14 First Floor, East Patel Nagar, New Delhi-110008,
India. Telephone No.: (009111) 25884540 E-Mail Address: das.tarun@hotmail.com
2B. Current Position: African Development Bank Macroeconomic Adviser, Ministry of
Finance and Economic Affairs, the Gambia, Quadrangle, Banjul.
3. Personal:
Nationality : Indian
Date of Birth : August 19, 1947.
Marital status : Married (Wife: Mitali Das, Son: Arpan Das)
5. Languages known: English, Bengali, Hindi- Excellent in speaking, writing and reading.
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6. (b) Specialisation and working experience: Macroeconomic Modelling and Policy Planning;
Public Policy; Public Financial Reforms Management; Governance Reforms; Management of
Public Debt, External Debt and Contingent Liabilities; Medium Term Public Expenditure
Framework; Strategic Planning and Budget Forecasting; Poverty and Inequality analysis;
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Poverty Reduction Growth Strategy; Performance
Based Output Budgeting and Program Budgeting; Performance Evaluation; Accrual Accounting;
Benchmarks setting; Transport Modelling and Regional Planning; Conducting on-the-job training
and Multi-stakeholders’ Workshops.
7. Other experiences:
(a) Worked as a Consultant to the African Development Bank, UN Economic Commission for
Africa (UN-ECA), Commonwealth Secretariat, World Bank, Asian Development Bank,
ILO, ESCAP, UNCTAD, UNDP, UNITAR, UN-SIAP, Global Development Network and.
(b) Worked as Consultant in Cambodia, Ethiopia, Gambia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Lao
PDR, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Philippines, Samoa, Senegal, Switzerland,
Thailand, UK and USA. Also visited Bangladesh, Belgium, China, France, Germany,
Morocco, Ireland, Singapore and U.A.E. to attend international conferences.
(c) Possesses diversity in skills in research, teaching, on-the-training, policy planning,
modeling, public sector management and conducting seminars and workshops.
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Annex-1:
Member of Indian Delegation and presentation of academic papers:
1. UNCTAD Ad-Hoc Working Group on Non-Debt Creating Financial Flows, Geneva, 1st
meeting (June 1993), 2nd meeting (Nov 1993) and Final meeting (Oct 1994).
2. Third Workshop on Asian Economic Outlook (AEO) (5-9 Nov 1990), Fourth Workshop on
AEO (28-31 Oct 1991), Fifth Workshop on AEO (4-6 Nov 1992), Sixth Workshop on AEO
(21-23 Oct 19930 and Seventh Workshop on AEO (26-28 Oct 1994), ADB, Manila.
3. UNCTAD Meeting on Mid-Term Global Review, UN, New York, 26 Sep-6 Oct 1995.
4. UNDP and Harvard Institute Workshop on Population Growth and Economic
Development, at Dhaka, Bangladesh, 22-25 April 1998.
5. UNDP and UNICEF Regional Workshop on the Public Expenditure on Basic Social
Services, at Bangkok, Thailand, 30 July-1 Aug 1998.
6. Workshop on Budget and the Economy, IMF Institute, Singapore, 15-30 Aug 1998.
7. Study Team on Economic Crisis, Asian Productivity Council, Tokyo, 15-18 Dec. 1998.
8. Forum on Sovereign Debt, World Bank, Washington D.C., 1-3 Nov. 1999.
9. Seminar on External Debt, IMF Institute, Singapore, 21-24 Mar 2000.
10. Workshop on Sovereign Debt, World Bank, Washington D.C., 28 March-4 April 2000.
11. Second UN Commission on Sustainable development, UN, New York, 24-28 April 2000.
12. Visits to Public Debt Offices of England and Ireland, 16-20 October 2000.
13. Workshop on Contingent Liabilities, World Bank, Washington D.C., 9-11 Nov 2000.
14. Expert Group Meeting on Revised GFS, IMF, Washington D.C., 5-9 February 2001.
15. Investors Role for Mitigation of Financial Crisis, IMF, Washington D.C., 5-7 Nov 2001.
16. Expert Group Meeting on Development Policies, UN-ESCAP, Bangkok, 10-12 Dec 2001.
17. Trade Policy Review Meeting, World Trade Organization, Geneva, 19-21 June 2002.
18. Expert Group Meeting on Development Policies, UN-ESCAP, Bangkok, 9-11 Dec 2003.
19. Annual Conference of the Global Development Network, New Delhi, 21-25 January 2004.
20. Annual Conference of the Global Development Network, Dakar, Senegal, 22-26 Jan 2005.
21. Annual Conference of the World Trade Centre, Mumbai, India, 22 October 2005.
22. National Workshop on Capacity Building on External Debt Management, organized by UN-
ESCAP and the Government of Samoa, at Apia, Samoa, 20-22 August 2005.
23. Multi-stakeholders’ Consultation on Draft Law on Public Debt, organized by the UNITAR,
and the Ministry of Finance, Government of Indonesia, at Jakarta, Dec 2005.
24. Expert Group Meeting on Development Policies, UN-ESCAP, Bangkok, 9-11 Dec 2005.
25. Annual Conference 2005 of the Centre for Social Markets, U.K., New Delhi, Dec 2005.
26. International Conference on Globalization, organized by The Academy of International
Business, USA and IILM, New Delhi, 17-19 February 2006.
27. National Workshop on Capacity Building on External Debt Management, organized by the
UN-ESCAP and the MOF, Govt of Cambodia, at Phnom Penh, 20-22 Feb 2006.
28. National Workshop on Capacity Building on External Debt Management, organized by the
UN-ESCAP and the MOF, Govt of Lao PDR, at Vientiane, 24-25 February 2006.
29. National Workshop on Capacity Building on External Debt Management, organized by the
UN-ESCAP and the Ministry of Finance, Govt of Nepal at Katmandu, Nepal, May 2006.
30. International Seminar on Global Economic Environment, Malaysian Institute for Economic
Research, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 2006.
31. Regional Conference on Bond Markets, organized by UN-ESCAP, ADB and Bank of
Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, 21-22 June 2007.
32. Lecturer for Training on Official Economic Statistics, UN-SIAP, Chiba, Japan, Aug 2007.
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1.15 Role of Agro-based and Resource-Based SMEs for Export Promotion and Poverty
Alleviation in ESCAP countries, pp.1-126, UN ESCAP, Bangkok, January 2003.
1.16 Economic Reforms in India- Rationale, Scope, Progress and Unfinished Agenda,
pp.1-80, Bank of Maharashtra, Planning Department, Pune, February 2003.
1.17 Impact of Pro-Market Reforms on the Poor in India- an Assessment and Lessons
for Policy Makers, pp.1-40, Global Development Network, June 2003.
1.18 Preparation of Indices for Services Production, jointly with R. Dasgupta, pp.1-250,
National Institute for Banking and Management, Pune, India, Jan 2003.
1.19 Poverty and Environment- How to break the vicious circle? Pp.39-46, Souvenir of
the Global Society for Protection of Human Rights, New Delhi, Jan 2000.
1.20 Impact of reforms on productivity of the public sector enterprises in India, pp. 1-35,
Asian productivity Council, Tokyo, Sept 1994.
1.21 Implications of Globalization on Industrial Diversification in Asia, pp.ix+1-86, UN
ESCAP, Bangkok, UN Publications Sales No.E.02.II.F.52, December 2001.
1.22 Role of private sector including privatization in selected Asian countries and
lessons for Africa, pp.1-110, UN-ECA, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Oct. 1998.
1.23 Foreign Investment- Technology Transfer- and Growth Nexus in Asian economies,
pp.1-158, ESCAP, United Nations, Bangkok, Oct 1997.
1.24 Policies and Strategies for Promoting Private Sector’s Role in Industrial and
Technological Development in Asia, pp.1-171, ST/ESCAP/1696, UN, NY, 1996.
1.25 Macro-economic Framework and Foreign Investment in India, WG on Investment
and Financial Flows, pp.1-75, TD/B/WG.1/Misc.3/ Add.3, UNCTAD, 1993.
1.26 Structural Reforms and Stabilization Policies in India – Rationale and Medium
Term Outlook, pp.20-56, in Economic Liberalization and its Impact, edited by SP
Gupta, Macmillan India Limited, Delhi, 1993.
1.27 Pricing, productivity and competitiveness of Indian Steel industry, pp.269-292, in
Indian Industrialization, ed. Arun Ghosh, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1992.
1.28 Trends and projections of rail and road goods and passenger traffic in India,
pp.105-161, in Transport Planning and Development, ed. V Mahajan, Deep &
Deep, Delhi, 1991.
1.29 Multisectoral and multiregional transport model for India– database and calibration
techniques, pp.391-403, Environment and Planning (London), 15-A, 1983.
1.30 Application of shift and share technique for forecasting regional and sectoral
growth in India in the Sixth Plan, pp.187-200, Indian Journal of Regional
Science, 13(2), 1981.
1.31 An economic evaluation of investment on roads and road transport in India,
Planning Commission, New Delhi, WP No.18, pp.1-50, May 1980.
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3.1 Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) - Basic Concepts, Methodology and
Applications for Mongolia, pp.1-50, ADB Capacity Building Project on
Governance Reforms, Ministry of Finance, Govt of Mongolia, July 2008.
3.2 An Introduction to Program Budgeting and Program Evaluation Review Technique
(PERT), pp.1-36, ADB Capacity Building Project on Governance Reforms,
Ministry of Finance, Government of Mongolia, June 2008
3.3 Budget Performance Evaluation- Methodology, Systems and Management, pp.1-55,
ADB Capacity Building Project on Governance Reforms, Ministry of Finance,
Government of Mongolia, May 2008.
3.4 Performance Based Budgeting- Methodology, Systems and Management, pp.1-55,
ADB Capacity Building Project on Governance Reforms, Ministry of Finance,
Government of Mongolia, March 2008.
3.5 Financial Planning- Part-1: Methodology, pp.1-34, Part-2: Policies, pp.1-32, ADB
Capacity Building Projects on Governance Reforms, Mongolia, January 2008.
3.6 Benchmarks Setting and Best Practices for Output Costing and Output Budgeting-
Part-1: Basic Concepts, pp.1-31, Part-2: Practical Applications for Mongolia, pp.1-
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4.1 External Debt Sustainability for Gambia- Macroeconomic trends and policy issues,
pp.1-30, Commonwealth Secretariat, London, August 2008.
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4.2 Management of external debt in Mongolia- legal, institutional framework and policy
issues, pp.1-35, ADB Capacity Building Project on Governance Reforms, Ministry
of Finance, Government of Mongolia, Dec 2007.
4.3 Management of External Debt- International Experiences and Best Practices, pp.1-
46, Best Practices series No.9, United Nations Institute for training and research
(UNITAR), Geneva, 2006.
4.4 Governance of Public Debt- International Experiences and Best Practices, pp.1-44,
Best Practices series No.10, UNITAR, Geneva, 2006.
4.5 Management of external debt in Nepal- legal, institutional framework and policy
issues, pp.1-30, UNESCAP, Bangkok, May 2006.
4.6 Management of external debt in Cambodia- legal, institutional framework and
policy issues, pp.1-30, UNESCAP, Bangkok, Feb. 2006.
4.7 Management of external debt in Lao PDR- legal, institutional framework and policy
issues, pp.1-30, UNESCAP, Bangkok, Feb. 2006.
4.8 Financing International Cooperation behind National Borders- a Case Study for
India, pp.1-50, Office of Development Studies, UNDP, New York. March 2006.
4.9 Management of external debt in Indonesia- legal, institutional framework and policy
issues, pp.1-30, Ministry of Finance, Govt of Indonesia, Dec. 2005.
4.10 Management of external debt in Samoa- legal, institutional framework and policy
issues, pp.1-30, UNESCAP, Bangkok, Sept 2005.
4.11 Off budget risks and their management, Chapter-3, Public Expenditure, and
Financial Management Review, Report No. 24256-PH, A Joint Document of The
Govt of the Philippines, World Bank and ADB, World Bank Philippines Country
Office, April 30, 2003.
4.12 Prepayment of expensive external debt of India, Expert Group Report, pp.1-40,
Ministry of Finance, New Delhi, Sept 2002.
4.13 Management of Public Debt in India, pp.85-110, in Accompanying Document to the
Guidelines for Public Debt Management, IMF, Washington, June 2002.
4.14 External Sector Contingent Liability- a Case Study on India, with Raj Kumar, A.
Bisen and M.R. Nair, pp.1-123, Commonwealth Sect, London, Jan 2001.
4.15 Sovereign Debt Management in India, pp.561-579, Sovereign Debt Management
Forum: Compilation of Presentations, World Bank, Washington, 2000.
4.16 East Asian Economic Crisis and Lessons for External Debt Management, pp.77-95,
in External Debt Management, ed. by A. Vasudevan, RBI, Mumbai, April 1999.
4.17 Fiscal Policies for Management of External Capital Flows, pp. 194-207, in
Corporate External Debt Management, edited by Jawahar Mulraj, CRISIL,
Bombay, Dec 1999
4.18 Management of external debt in India and lessons for developing countries, IMF
Singapore Regional Training Institute, Singapore, Sept 1998.
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