Dr Balu teaches courses in economics at the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics. His research interests primarily lie in the Economics of Distribution and Development Economics. He has presented his work at various national and international conferences. He is pursuing PhD at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

Balu loves discussions with students and mentoring them. Apart from his academic interests, he enjoys music, trekking, swimming, and playing volleyball.

Detailed CV

• Pawde, Balu; Shaw, Tara Shankar & Trivedi, Pushpa (2024). Manufacturing Activity and Inequality in India. Journal of Quantitative Economics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40953-024-00416-8
• Pawde, Balu; Shaw, Tara Shankar & Trivedi, Pushpa (2022). Household Consumption Expenditure Inequalities in Rural India: 1993-94 to 2011-12. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 57, Issue No. 11, 12 Mar, 2022

• Pawde, Balu; Shaw, Tara Shankar (2022). Inequality, Manufacturing Industry and Spatial Dependence in the Districts of India. Conference proceedings of 5th International Conference of Development and Economy, organized by ICODECON, University of Peloponnese, Campus Antikalamos, Kalamata, Greece.
• Pawde, Balu(2024). District Strategic Plan for Amravati, Maharashtra. Report submitted to the district collector, Amravati, Government of Maharashtra.
• Pawde, Balu(2024). Systematic Literature Review on Small Enterprises. Report submitted to the Centre for Excellence in Entrepreneurship and Development (CEED), GIPE, Pune.

• Pawde, Balu, Report on Fiscal Situtation of the State of Maharashtra for the XVIth Finance Commission, Goverment of India
• Pawde, Balu, District Strategic Plan for Amravati District, Maharashtra. Project of Goverment of Maharashtra
• Pawde, Balu, Comprehensive Literature Review of Small Scale Businesses, project done for CEED, GIPE Pune
• Pawde, Balu, Shaw, Tara Shankar and Trivedi, Pushpa (2024). Spatial Dependence, Manufacturing Industry and Inequality in India
• Pawde, Balu, Shaw, Tara Shankar and Trivedi, Pushpa (2024). Consumption Expenditure Inequality in Urban India Bhanot, Disha, Kathuria, Vinish and Pawde, Balu (2024). Seasonality in the Prices and Sales in the Tomato Markets

• 2023-2024 Project Grant for District Strategic Plan, Government of Maharashtra, India Rs. 1952664
• 2023-2024 Project Grant for Comprehensive Literature Review on Small Scale Businesses, Centre for Excellence in Entrepreneurship Development, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, Maharashtra, India Rs. 530000
• 2022-2022 International Conference Travel Grant, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India Rs. 1,40,000
• 2022-2022 Industrial Research & Consultancy Center Fellowship, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India = JRF
• 2017-2022 Graduate Teaching Assistantship (Research Fellowship), IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India =JRF & SRF
• 2017-2022 Research for Impact Fellowship (RFI), J-PAL, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA =SRF
• 2016-2017 Award for securing 1st Rank in MA, Marathi Arthshastra Parishad, Maharashtra, India 2014-2016 Post-Matric scholarship for post-graduate studies, Government of India
• 2014-2016 Rajarshi Shahu Scholarship for post-graduate studies, University of Pune, India 70,000
• 2011-2014 Post-Matric scholarship for undergraduate studies, Government of India
• 2013-2014 Best Student Award (Gold Medal), Bhavans College, Andheri (W), University of Mumbai 2013-2014 Gold Medal: Topper of the Batch in BA, Bhavans College, Andheri (W), University of Mumbai 2013-2014 Kulpati Trophy for excellence in Academics, Bhavans College, Andheri (W)
• 2011-2013 Prizes for securing 1st rank in FYBA & SYBA, Bhavans College, Andheri (W) 2011-2012 Youth Festival gold medal in story writing, University of Mumbai, India
• 2001-2014 Prizes during school & college in elocution, debate, essay, poetry competitions,
• 2010-2011 Award: topper in 12th standard exam, Dapoli Taluka Headmasters Association
• 2010-2011 Award: 1st rank in Marathi subject in HSC, Swami Vivekanand Shikshan Sanstha, Kolhapur

• Pawde, Balu. 2024. Convergence of States in Manufacturing Activity in De industrializing India. Two Week Capacity Building Program, organized by Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, New Delhi and ICSSR, at ISID campus, New Delhi, India
• Pawde, Balu. 2024. Manufacturing Activity and Inequality in India. Advanced Graduate Workshop, organized by Azim Premji University and Institute for New Economic Thinking, Bangalore, India (Co-author: Tara Shankar Shaw and Pushpa L. Trivedi)
• Pawde, Balu. 2022. Inequality, Manufacturing Industry and Spatial Dependence in the Districts of India. Second Biennial Conference on Development, organized by IGIDR, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India (Co-author: Tara Shankar Shaw)
• Pawde, Balu. 2022. Inequality, Manufacturing Industry and Spatial Dependence in the Districts of India. 5th International Conference of Development and Economy, organized by ICODECON, In-Person at University of Peloponnese, Campus Antikalamos, Kalamata, Greece. (Co-author: Tara Shankar Shaw)
• Pawde, Balu. 2022. Inequality, Manufacturing Industry and Spatial Dependence in the Districts of India. The International Conference on Applied Business and Economics – 18th edition, organized by The International Strategic Management Association and others, at The University of Malta, Valetta Campus, Malta. (Co-author: Tara Shankar Shaw)
• Pawde, Balu. 2021. Education, Location & Household Consumption Inequality in Rural India During 1994 & 2012. 39th Annual Conference, organized by IARNIW, Delhi (turned virtual), India. (Co-authors: Prof. Tara Shankar Shaw and Prof. Pushpa L Trivedi)
• Pawde, Balu. 2020. Policy Change & Consumption Expenditure Inequality in Rural India During 1994-2012. Winter School, jointly organized by CDE-Delhi School of Economics & The Econometric Society, USA (turned virtual), India. (Co-authors: Prof. Tara Shankar Shaw and Prof. Pushpa L Trivedi)
• Pawde, Balu. 2020. Decomposing Inequalities in Household Consumption Expenditure in India. Two day International Conference on Sustainable Development and Education, organized by Central University of Kerala, India. (Co-authors: Prof. Tara Shankar Shaw and Prof. Pushpa L Trivedi)
• Pawde, Balu. 2019. Food Subsidies, Delivery Infrastructure & Inequalities in Consumption Expenditure in India. Advanced Graduate Workshop, jointly organized by IPD Columbia University, INET & Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India (Co-authors: Prof. Tara Shankar Shaw and Prof. Pushpa L Trivedi)

• COMPASS 2024. ACM Special Interest Group on Computing and Society (SIGCAS) and ACM Special Interest Group in Computer Human Interaction (SIGCHI). IIIT Delhi, New Delhi, India.
• Young Scholars Workshop on Contemporary Issues in Rural India. Foundation for Agrarian Studies. Chennai, India. 2019. Media Bootcamp on Responsible Finance Reporting. Organized by Oxfam. Mumbai, India.
• Peer Review Workshop on Comparison of Self Help Groups (SHG’s) and Micro Finance Institutions (MFI’s) Models in Micro Credit Delivery). Organized by Department of Economics, Pune University, Pune, India,

2016-2017  Teaching Associate: Fundamentals of Mathematics and Statistics, Pune University (Co-instructor Prof. Dhanmanjiri Sathe)

• 2024-2025   Advanced Graduate Workshop Cohort of 2024, Mentor for a group of PhD Students, AGW, Azim Premji University
• 2021-2022    PhD Cohorts of Autumn and Spring semesters, Mentor for the batch, Dept. of HSS IIT Bombay
• 2015-2016  Students in MA program, Mentor Pune University

• 2023-2024 Institute Outreach to NRI Students, Faculty, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics Pune (Dubai UAE and Muscat Oman)
• 2021-2022 Institute Research Scholars’ Companion Program, Department Co-ordinator, HSS IIT Bombay
• 2020-2021 Hostel 1 Council, Mess Secretary IIT Bombay
• 2013-2014 Youth Festival, Contingent Leader Mumbai University
• 2011-2014 NSS, Leader & Volunteer, Rural service camp manager & O2 fest organizing member Bhavans College