Awards and Distinctions
- I was awarded (1) Sir James Fergusson Scholarship in
1965 for securing 1st Rank at the B.A. Examination of the Bombay University.
- I was awarded (1) The Chancellor's Gold Medal & (2)
The K.T.Telang Gold Medal in 1968 for securing
1st Rank at the M.A. Examination of the Bombay University.
- Paper no.13 (see Publications above) was awarded the D.K.Desai Prize by The Indian Society of
Agricultural Economics for being the best
paper published in the Society's journal for the year 1989.
- Papers No. 50 and 55 (see Publications above) obtained
citations of excellence from ANBAR Electronic Intelligence, U.K.
- Chaired a session on "Econometric Theory" at
the 1992 India
and South?East Asia
Meeting of the Econometric Society.(Bombay,19?21, December 1992).
- 20th Century Achievement Award of American Biographical
Institute.
- International Man of the Year 1998-99 Award by
International Biographical Centre, Cambridge,
U.K.
- Listed in MARQUIS' International Who's Who.
- "Best Teacher" Award of the University of
Mumbai, 1999-2000.
- President, The Indian
Econometrics Society, 2002-2003.
- Recipient
of UGC-Swami Pranavanada Saraswati Award
(Economics), 2004
- Delivered Third Ranade
Memorial Oration (University
of Mumbai) on the theme “Indian Economics in Disarray: Tragedy
of a Forsaken Legacy” (24 September 2003).
- Delivered Eighth Lalit Doshi Memorial Lecture, (St. Xavier’s
College, Mumbai)on the theme “Globalisation and Inequality among Nations” (23
December 2003).
- Delivered Distinguished Lecture (Central University Hyderabad)
on the theme “ Causality in Economics” (12 January 2004).
- Delivered Second Dubashi Public Lecture, (Gokhale
Institute of Politics & Economics, Pune)
Mumbai)on the theme “Globalisation and Inequality among Nations” (23
December 2003)
- Honorary Senior Fellow, ISAS, National University of Singapore, Singapore