Sanjaya LALL

Background

Lall, Sanjaya was born on December 13, 1940. Son of Srichand and Dharmashila (Jayaswal) Lall.

Education

Bachelor with honors, Patna University, India, 1960. Bachelor with honors, St. John's College, Oxford University, England, 1963. Master of Philosophy, St. John's College, Oxford University, England, 1965.

Career

Economics, World Bank, Washington, District of Columbia, 1965-1969. Research Officer, Institute, Institution Economics and Statistics, Oxford, 1968-1979. Director Studies, Indian Council Research International Economics Relations, New Delhi, 4.

Consultant, United Nations Conference Trade and Develp., Geneva, International Labour Office, Geneva, United Nations Industrial Development Organisation, Vienna, World Bank, Washington, District of Columbia, Organisation for Economic Company-operation and Development, Paris, United Nations Centre Transnat.

COIJ>., New York, Commonwealth Secretariat, London, Food and Agricultural Organisation, United Nations, Rome, Institute, Institution Research on Multinat., Paris, Geneva, Ford Foundation, New York, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, London, since 1973. Senior Research Officer, Institute, Institution Economics and Statistics, Fellow, Green College Oxford, England, since 1979.

Editorial Boards, World Development, Political Economy of World Poverty (University Toronto Press).

Achievements

• Sanjaya Lall has been listed as a noteworthy economist by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Developing Countries in the International Economy

    ('...a most stimulating essay, by an economist who is a le...)

  • Developing Countries As Exporters of Technology and Capital Goods
  • New Multinationals: Spread of Third World Enterprises (Wiley/IRM Series on Multinationals)
  • Multinational Corporation Hc Lall S
  • Learning to Industrialize
  • Multinational Corporation: Nine Essays
  • Multinationals Technology+exports
  • Foreign Private Manufacturing Investment and Multinational Corporation: Annotated Bibliography (Praeger special studies in international economics and development)

Views

One of the pioneers of rigorous economic analysis of impact of multinational corporations on less-developed countries. Studied MNCs balance-of-payments effects, transfer pricing, transfer of technology and the provision of medicines. Started with a critical approach, realised weaknesses of ‘dependency’ school, and moved to mainstream economic analysis.

Then contributed several publications to international investment literature, extending knowledge of MNC theory, intra-firm trade, impact of MNCs on market structure, R&Doctorate allocation by MNCs, vertical linkages and exports by MNCs, and the emergence of Third World multinationals. Published a number of detailed empirical studies of the international pharmaceutical, automotive and foodprocessing industries, finding that MNCs could play a positive and important role in less-developed countries if permitted to operate in liberal, outwardlooking regimes. In past four years launched research into technological development in and exports of technology by the more industrialised LDCs.

Under World Bank auspices, conducted exhaustive analysis of technological progress in selected Indian firms. Discovered a paradoxical mixture of considerable capability with the inability to exploit it effectively in domestic and foreign markets. This study supports and enriches, at the microtechnological level, the various findings about the costs of highly protected, inward-looking policies.

Extended understanding of determinants of intradeveloping country trade and its possible benefits and costs. The ‘revealed comparative advantage’ of all the leading developing countries has been analysed over time, with reference to the direction of trade.

Membership

Member of Indian Council Research on International Economics Relations (honorary director), Royal Economic Society.

Interests

• 121 Economic Studies of Less Industrialised Countries. 442 International Business; 621 Technological Change, Innovation: Research and Development.

Connections

Married Ramnique Singh, October 17, 1977. Children: Maya, Priya.

Father:

Srichand Lall

Mother:

Dharmashila (Jayaswal) Lall

Spouse:

Ramnique Singh

child:

Maya Lall

child:

Priya Lall