A former consultant to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, Bhattacharya advised various agencies and departments of the Indian government on macroeconomic issues. A trained economist, he was also part of India’s business academia, and held the professorial chair at IIM-Lucknow, one of India’s top four state-run management institutes.
Economist BB Bhattacharya dead
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A former consultant to the WB and the IMF, Bhattacharya advised various agencies and departments of the Indian government on macroeconomic issues.
NEW DELHI: BB Bhattacharya, the former vice-chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University and an eminent economist, died in New Delhi on Tuesday after suffering a cardiac arrest. He was 71 and had been ailing for a while.
A former consultant to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, Bhattacharya advised various agencies and departments of the Indian government on macroeconomic issues. A trained economist, he was also part of India’s business academia, and held the professorial chair at IIM-Lucknow, one of India’s top four state-run management institutes.
A former consultant to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, Bhattacharya advised various agencies and departments of the Indian government on macroeconomic issues. A trained economist, he was also part of India’s business academia, and held the professorial chair at IIM-Lucknow, one of India’s top four state-run management institutes.
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