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Profile

Professor K S Chalapati Rao (b. 1951), M.Sc., M.Phil., is a researcher having two and half decades of experience in studying various aspects of India's industrial policy and corporate sector. Having joined the Corporate Studies Group, the precursor to ISID, in 1980, he is virtually a product of the Institute.

Over the years, Prof. Rao has been associated with most of the studies undertaken at the CSG/ISID which encompassed stock markets, corporate governance, foreign investments, international trade, industrial regulations and SMEs. In the process, he has dealt with projects supported by national and international bodies such as the Union Ministry of Finance, Planning Commission, United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations (UNCTC), Indo-Dutch Programme on Alternatives in Development (IDPAD), International Labour Organisation (ILO), etc. He has also been closely associated with planning and building of computer databases of the CSG/ISID.

While continuing to work on other subjects, of late he has been trying to focus on issues relating to corporate governance. His research contributions have been in the form of project reports, chapters in books, articles and working papers.

Prof. Rao believes in digging deep to get to the bottom of things and pursuing different paths even if it means getting submerged or losing the way.

Select Research Contributions

I. As Principal Researcher/Co-author

  • ISID Research Team, “Review of Existing Policies and Legislations of MSEs in India and Uttar Pradesh”, report submitted to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), February 2004.
  • ISID Research Team, “Savings and Capital Formation of the Indian Private Corporate Sector: An Analysis of the Recent Trends”, a project report submitted to the Union Ministry of Finance, 2003.
  • K.S. Chalapati Rao and Pratap Chandra Biswal, “Shareholding Pattern of Listed Companies in India: Implications for Protection of Minority Shareholders’ Interest”, a presentation made at the International Conference: Privatisation & Corporate Governance of State-owned Assets, organised by the Indian Council of Social Science Research and OECD Centre for Cooperation with Non-Member Countries, New Delhi, 27-28 November 2003.
  • ISID Research Team, “India’s External Trade during the ‘Nineties: Some Aspects - An Analysis of Customs House and Company Data”, a project report sponsored by the Planning Commission, 2002.
  • ISID Research Team, “Savings and Investment of the Indian Private Corporate Sector during the 'Nineties”, sponsored by the Union Ministry of Finance, 2002.
  • “Washington Consensus And India: Experience Of The Last Decade”; with S K Goyal, paper presented at the International Conference 'Beyond the Washington Consensus - Governance and the Public Domain in Contrasting Economies: The Cases of India and Canada', Chandigarh, 12-14 February, 2001. Published in Man & Development, December 2002.
  • K.S. Chalapati Rao and Nagesh Kumar, “A Reform of Corporate Statistics: Some Suggestions”; a Note Submitted to the National Statistical Commission, Central Statistical Organisation, Government of India, 2000.
  • K.S. Chalapati Rao, M.R. Murthy and K.V.K. Ranganathan, “Some Aspects of the Indian Stock Market in the Post-liberalisation Period”, Journal of Indian School of Political Economy, October-December 1999, pp. 595-621.
  • K.S. Chalapati Rao, K.V.K. Ranganathan and M.R. Murthy, “Foreign Institutional Investments and the Indian Stock Market”, Journal of Indian School of Political Economy, October-December 1999, pp. 623-647.
  • K.S. Chalapati Rao, M.R. Murthy and K.V.K. Ranganathan, “Foreign Direct Investments in India Since Liberalisation: An Overview”, Journal of Indian School of Political Economy, July-September 1999, pp. 423-454.
  • K.S. Chalapati Rao and M.R. Murthy, “Locational Aspects of FDI in the Post-Liberalisation Period: Some Tentative Observations”, a paper presented at the National Workshop on Urban Agenda in the New Millennium organised by School of Planning, Centre for Environmental Planning & Technology, Ahmedabad, July, 1999.
  • K.S. Chalapati Rao, K.V.K. Ranganathan and M.R. Murthy, “Indian Company Law and Protection of Shareholders’ Interest”, ISID Working Paper, November 1998.
  • K.S. Chalapati Rao and Alok Puranik, "Concept of Companies Under the Same Management under Section 3710(1-B) of the Companies Act, 1956: A Study of its Operation", Company News & Notes, Vol. XXXIII, No. 9, March 1996.
  • ISID Research Team, Foreign Investment Approvals & Implementation Status: A Review (August 1991 - December 1994), 1995 (mimeo). The project was sponsored by the Union Ministry of Finance, Government of India.
  • ISID Research Team, Foreign Investment Approvals: An Analysis, ISID, 1994. The project report was submitted to the Union Ministry of Finance.
  • K.S. Chalapati Rao and K.V.K. Ranganathan, "Directory of Joint Stock Companies in India, 1990: A Review", 1992. The study was submitted to the Department of Company Affairs, Government of India.
  • ISID Research Team, India's Imports and Exports -- Some Insights (A Study of Daily Trade Register Data), ISID, 1991. The study put to use for the first time the Customs House Data for policy analysis and was presented to the Union Ministry of Finance, Government of India.
  • Corporate Studies Group, Public and Private Corporate Sectors in India: A Study in Characteristics and Trends, project report submitted to the Standing Conference of Public Enterprises, New Delhi, 1988 (mimeo).
  • S.K. Goyal, K.S. Chalapati Rao and Nagesh Kumar, Small Scale Sector and Big Business, Corporate Studies Group, Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), New Delhi, 1984.
  • Corporate Studies Group, Functioning of Industrial Licensing System: A Report, Corporate Studies Group, IIPA, New Delhi, 1983.
  • S.K. Goyal and K.S. Chalapati Rao, Ownership and Control Structure of the Indian Press, Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi, 1981. The study was sponsored by the Second Press Commission appointed by the Government of India and formed part of the Commission’s Report.
  • Amitabh Kundu, P.N. Mathur, G.S. Bhalla and K.S. Chalapati Rao, Input-Output Framework and Economic Analysis, K.B. Publications, New Delhi, 1976.

II. Individual Contributions

  • “Foreign Portfolio Investments and the Indian Stock Market Boom of 2003-04: A Note”, Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, 2004, published as “Stock Market’ in Alternative Survey Group, Magnifying Mal-Development: Alternative Economic Survey, India, Rainbow Publishers & Zed Press, 2004.
  • “An Overview of the Indian Stock Market with Emphasis on Ownership Pattern of Listed Companies”, published as “Stock Market” in Alternative Survey Group, Alternative Economic Survey: 2001-2002, 2002.
  • “Stock Market”; published in Alternative Economic Survey 2000-01, Alternative Survey Group, July, 2001.
  • "Company Law", in Alternative Economic Survey: 1991-1998 – Seven Years of Structural Adjustment, Alternative Survey Group, 1999.
  • “Corporate Sector and Emerging Company Law”, in Alternative Economic Survey: 1996-97, Delhi Science Forum, 1997.
  • “Growth of the Indian Private Corporate Sector: Some Characteristics and Trends”, Company News and Notes, August 1997, pp.
  • "An Evaluation of Export Policies and the Export Performance of Large Private Companies", in Pitou van Dijck and K.S. Chalapati Rao, India's Trade Policy and Export Performance of Industry, 1994, Sage, New Delhi.
  • "A Study of Inter-connections Under the MRTP Act -- In the Context of the Asset Limit Hike", Economic and Political Weekly, June 1985.