Vengadeshvaran Sarma

Contact

• workRoom EB20 Block E
  Malaysia Campus
  Jalan Broga
  43500 Semenyih
  Selangor Darul Ehsan
  Malaysia
• work+6 (03) 8725 3566
• fax+6 (03) 8924 8019
• Vengadeshvaran.Sarma@nottingham.edu.my

Biography

Vengadeshvaran Sarma is an Associate Professor of Business Economics at the Nottingham University Business School, and is also the school's UG Examinations Officer. Venga is a Senior Fellow of Advance HE (UK) and received his PhD from the University of Nottingham. Venga is passionate about Education and Student Experience, and has been the recipient of Staff Oscar Awards (2018, 2019) and the Lord Dearing Award (2019). Venga's research interest is primarily in the area of development, with a focus on issues in Migration, Displacement, Inequality, and Education. Venga's recent research papers have been published in Applied Economics Letters, International Journal of Educational Development, Oxford Development Studies, and the Singapore Economic Review.

Teaching Summary

Venga is currently involved in teaching the following modules:

• IE1: Economics of Organisation and Innovation (UG)
• Business Economics (UG)
• Quantitative Methods 1b (UG)
• Behavioural Economics and Decision Making (PG)

Research Summary

Venga's current research interests are in the fields of labour migration, displacement, education and developmental economics in general. His current work involves the study of Educational Inequality… read more

Selected Publications

• SARMA, V.J. and PARINDURI, R.A., 2016. What happen to children’s education when their parents emigrate? Evidence from Sri Lanka International Journal of Educational Development. 46, 94-102.
• PAUL, S. and SARMA, V.J., 2017. Industrialisation-led displacement and long-term welfare: evidence from West Bengal Oxford Development Studies. 45(3), 240-259
• LAM, C., PAUL, S. and SARMA, V.J., 2016. Reversal of fortune? The long-term effect of conservation-led displacement in Nepal Oxford Development Studies. 44(4), 401-419

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Current Research

Venga's current research interests are in the fields of labour migration, displacement, education and developmental economics in general. His current work involves the study of Educational Inequality in Sri Lanka, Female Labour Migration from Sri Lanka, and the effects of forced-displacement in Nepal, West Bengal and Malaysia.

Research in progress:

• "Is the Provision of Education in Sri Lanka Equitable?" CEPA Working Paper Series No. 27 (ISBN: 978-955-3628-26-8)
• "Inclusive growth: how to encourage persons with disabilities into the labour market" (with Gan, S.W and Tang, Y.H)
• "Land Acquisition and Infrastructure Development through Land Trust Laws: A Policy Framework for Asia " (with N, Yoshino, S.Paul and S. Lakhia). ADBI Working Paper No. 854.
• "Structural transformation, growth, and inequality: evidence from Viet Nam" (with S.Paul and G. Wan). ADBI Working Paper No. 681.
• "Are special economic zones a curse on those 'chosen' to be evicted? Evidence from West Bengal, India" (with S. Paul). IDE Discussion Paper No. 472.
• "Economic crisis and female entrepreneurship: Evidence from countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia" (with S. Paul). CREDIT Research Paper No. 13/08.

Past Research

Conference Papers:

• U21 Workshop on Modern Slavery, Forced Labour, and Human Trafficking. 2020
• Economic crisis and female entrepreneurship: Evidence from countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (with S. Paul), NUBSiCON 2020 Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 2020
• Forced displacement and experience along caste lines: evidence from Nepal (with L.M. Lam and B. Pant), 3rd Development Economics Conference, Lincoln, UK. 2019.
• Livelihoods effects of forced-displacement (with S. Paul), 60th ISLE Conference, Mumbai, India. 2018 .
• Short-term vs. Long-term effects of forced displacement (with S. Khatua), ADBI Conference on Land Management in Asia, Tokyo, Japan. 2018.
• Land Acquisition and Infrastructure Development through Land Trust Laws: A Policy Framework for Asia (with N, Yoshino, S.Paul and S. Lakhia), Asian Law and Economics Association Conference, Singapore, 2018.
• The livelihood effects of Industrialisation on displaced households (with Saumik Paul), UNU-WIDER conference on Public Economics for Development, Maputo, Mozambique. 2017.
• Structural transformation and inequality in Viet Nam (with Saumik Paul), ADBI Workshop on Structural Transformation, Asian Development Bank Institute, Japan. 2016.
• The livelihood effects of Industrialisation on displaced households (with Saumik Paul), European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) Annual Conference 2016, Ghent, Belgium.
• Married men with children may stop working when their wives emigrate to work: Evidence from Sri Lanka (with Rasyad Parinduri), CSAE Conference 2015: Economic Development in Africa, University of Oxford, UK.
• Land compensation, property rights and long-term welfare (with Saumik Paul), 2014 Land and Poverty Conference, The World Bank, Washington D.C., USA.
• The Livelihood Effects of Industrialization on Displaced Households - Evidence from West Bengal, India (with Saumik Paul), ADBI Seminar Series, Asian Development Bank Institute, Japan. 2014
• The impact of parental emigration on the education of children left behind: Evidence from Sri Lanka (with Rasyad Parinduri), Migration: Global Development, New Frontiers 2013, University College London, UK.
• Children as determinants of international migration, a gender perspective: Evidence from Sri Lanka (with Rasyad Parinduri), Singapore Economic Review Conference 2011, Singapore.

• TAN, CHEE MENG, OWUAMALAM, CHUMA, SARMA, VENGADESHVARAN J and NG, PEK KIM, 2023. Confidence in COVID-19 vaccines moderates the association between vaccination status and mental distress. Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress.
• TAN, CHEE MENG, OWUAMALAM, CHUMA KEVIN and SARMA, VENGADESHVARAN, 2022. Improving vaccination intent among skeptics through confidence in governments' handling of the COVID-19 pandemic ACTA PSYCHOLOGICA. 225,
• SARMA, V.J. and PARINDURI, R.A., 2021. Does maternal migration affect spousal labour market decisions? Evidence from Sri Lanka The Singapore Economic Review. Forthcoming.
• KHATUA, SAYAK, AND SARMA, VENGADESHVARAN, 2019. Short-Term Versus Long-Term Effects of Forced Displacement. In: YOSHINO, NAOYUKIAND PAUL, SAUMIK, ed., Land Acquisition in Asia: Towards a Sustainable Policy Framework Springer Singapore. 25-38
• YOSHINO, NAOYUKI, PAUL, SAUMIK, SARMA, VENGADESHVARAN, AND LAKHIA, SALONI, 2019. Land Trust to Facilitate Development Through Land Transfer. In: YOSHINO, NAOYUKIAND PAUL, SAUMIK, ed., Land Acquisition in Asia: Towards a Sustainable Policy Framework Springer Singapore. 135-145
• PAUL, SAUMIK, AND SARMA, VENGADESHVARAN, 2019. Attitudes Towards Forced Displacement in West Bengal, India: To Move (Again) or Not?. In: YOSHINO, NAOYUKI, AND PAUL, SAUMIK, ed., Land Acquisition in Asia: Towards a Sustainable Policy Framework Springer Singapore. 117-131
• PAUL, SAUMIKAND SARMA, VENGADESHVARAN, 2019. Special Economic Zones and Livelihood Changes: Evidence from India. In: YOSHINO, NAOYUKI, AND PAUL, SAUMIK, ed., Land Acquisition in Asia: Towards a Sustainable Policy Framework Springer Singapore. 97-116
• LAM, LAI MINGAND PANT, BASANTAND SARMA, VENGADESHVARAN, 2019. The Political Economy of Caste, Forced Displacement and Impact on Local Communities' Welfare in Nepal. In: YOSHINO, NAOYUKIAND PAUL, SAUMIK, ed., Land Acquisition in Asia: Towards a Sustainable Policy Framework Springer Singapore. 81-96
• LAM, LAI MINGAND PANT, BASANTAND SARMA, VENGADESHVARAN, 2019. The Long-Term Livelihood Effects of the Conservation-Led Displacement in Kanchanpur, Nepal. In: YOSHINO, NAOYUKIAND PAUL, SAUMIK, ed., Land Acquisition in Asia: Towards a Sustainable Policy Framework Springer Singapore. 41-56
• NAOYUKI YOSHINO, SAUMIK PAUL, VENGADESHVARAN SARMA AND SALONI LAKHIA, 2018. Land trust laws as a solution to the land acquisition dilemma for infrastructure development in Asia Available at: <https://www.asiapathways-adbi.org/2018/09/land-trust-laws-as-a-solution-to-the-land-acquisition-dilemma-for-infrastructure-development-in-asia/>
• SARMA, V., LICHT, S. and KALUGALAGEDARA, T., 2018. Educational Inequalities in Sri Lanka: National Data and Local Perspectives on Access, Quality and Learning Outcomes Centre for Poverty Analysis. (978-955-3628-27-5)
• PAUL, S. and SARMA, V.J., 2017. Industrialisation-led displacement and long-term welfare: evidence from West Bengal Oxford Development Studies. 45(3), 240-259
• SARMA, V.J. and PARINDURI, R.A., 2016. What happen to children’s education when their parents emigrate? Evidence from Sri Lanka International Journal of Educational Development. 46, 94-102.
• LAM, C., PAUL, S. and SARMA, V.J., 2016. Reversal of fortune? The long-term effect of conservation-led displacement in Nepal Oxford Development Studies. 44(4), 401-419
• SARMA, V.J. and PARINDURI, R.A., 2015. Children and maternal migration: Evidence from exogenous variations in family size Applied Economics Letters. 22(15), 1184-1187
• PAUL, S and SARMA, V.J., 2015. Land acquisition, industrialisation, and displaced households. Available at: <https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/macroeconomics/land-acquisition-industrialisation-and-displaced-households.html>