V. K. R. V. Rao

V. K. R. V. Rao

Professor V. K. R. V. Rao, (Vijendra Kasturi Ranga Varadaraja Rao), (1908-1991) was a prominent Indian economist, politician and educator. He served as a Union Minister for the Education in 1971, elected as member for Bellary in 1967 and 1971. He obtained his PhD from Caius College, Cambridge where he studied with John Maynard Keynes and returned to India shortly afterwards.

Manmohan Singh, India's economist-Prime Minister has credited him with being responsible for the high quality of economics education and research in India, by being the founder-director of the Delhi School of Economics, the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi and the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore. In the international sphere he was one of the central forces behind the institution of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the IDA. He is commemorated by the VKRV Rao prizes in Social Science Research. [http://www.isec.ac.in/vkrvraoprize.htm]

Further reading

* S. L. Rao (ed.) "The Partial Memoirs of V.K.R.V. Rao" Oxford University Press: USA, 2002 ISBN 0-19-565823-X reviewed in "Tale of triumph — or disillusionment?", The Hindu, January 20, 2002 accessed at [http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/br/2002/01/22/stories/2002012200140300.htm] August 30, 2006


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