Dr. Rajesh Barik is currently working as an assistant professor at BITS Pilani (K. K. Birla Goa Campus). Before joining BITS Pilani, he was working as an assistant professor at IBS Hyderabad. He received his PhD in economics from IIT Indore. His research area mainly focuses on financial inclusion, financial literacy, digital finance, poverty, human development, gender development, gender discrimination, social exclusion, social policy, etc

Academic Details:

PhD (Economics-2021)

University/Institution: Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IIT Indore)
Thesis Title- “Examining the Impact of Financial Inclusion on
Poverty and Human Development: An Empirical Evidence from the Post-liberalized Indian States”.

M.Phil

Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK), University of Calcutta (2015)

M.A -(Applied Economics) Pondicherry University, Pondicherry (2013)

B.A- (Economics) Fakir Mohan University, Balasore, Odisha (2011)