Parma Chakravartti is with the Health Policy Research Unit, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi and is working on issues related to health financing in India.
Dr. Chakravartti holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her doctoral research is on the growth and distributive effects of fiscal policies in India.
She has worked as an Assistant Professor in Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation, Kerala and School of Liberal Studies, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, Delhi. Her areas of interests are public finance, macroeconomics and development economics and she has worked in various government organizations, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, Planning Commission of India in Financial Resources Division, Fourteenth Finance Commission and Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi. Dr. Chakravartti also holds an interest in Time Series Econometrics. She has delivered lectures on Time Series Econometrics for IES-Officer Trainees in IES Unit at Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi.
Her research publications are in the area of forecasting GDP growth for India, issues on debt and deficits in India in reputed journals.