Applications of the Input-Output Framework

This book provides a fresh perspective on the ever-growing relevance of input-output analysis in problem solving. It is based on the “19th National Conference of the Input-Output Research Association of India (IORA)”, held in 2017 in Mumbai, India. The conference promoted the exchange of ideas on input-output analysis and related methods among economists, government officials, policymakers, academicians and industrialists.

The book captures the unique ideas of prominent scholars, extends the basic “input-output framework,” analytical tool, outlines the possible impacts of some major policy decisions adopted by the Government of India, and puts forward concrete policy suggestions. In addition, it highlights the versatility of the Leontief model, which is currently being extended to cover a diverse spectrum of policy issues, ranging from agricultural productivity to science and technology and from carbon hotspots to energy and environmental consequences. A perfect blend of theory and application, the book provides a realistic outlook on sensitive economies and interdependencies between sectors.

Kakali Mukhopadhyay is a professor at Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (Pune, India) and adjunct professor/senior academic fellow in the Agricultural Economics Program in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences at McGill University (Montreal, Canada). She earned her MPhil and PhD in Economics with a specialization in Energy and Environment at Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India.

Prior to joining McGill University in 2007, she was a postdoctoral research fellow and subsequently a member of the faculty at the Center for Development and Environmental Policy, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, and the Madras School of Economics, Chennai, India. Her research focuses on energy and environment, trade and environment, air pollution and health, economics of health, regional economic integration and R&D. She has received a number of international fellowships and awards from the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Indo-Dutch Program and the Ford Foundation. She was a postdoctoral/visiting fellow at the Faculty of Business Management, Oulu University (Finland); Stockholm Environment Institute (Sweden); the SOM Research Institute University of Groningen (the Netherlands), UNU MERIT-Maastricht University (the Netherlands) and the School of Environment, Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand). She was also a distinguished visiting professor at De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines and visiting professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. She has numerous publications in respected international peer-reviewed journals, and has authored five books in various fields of energy, environmental pollution and trade. Professor Mukhopadhyay has completed several studies on behalf of the United Nations Environment Programme, Asian Development Bank, Public Health Agency of Canada, Indian Council of Social Science Research, and South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics.