Received the Mahalanobis Memorial Award of the Indian Econometric Society in 1994

Fellow, Human Development and Capability Association.

A session was organized in his honor at the Eighth International Conference of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ), held at the Paris School of Economics, France, 3-5 July, 2019.

The Springer Nature (2019) book “Poverty, Social Exclusion and Stochastic Dominance is among the top used publications on Springer Link that concern one or more of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Vita lists over 100 publications in prestigious scholarly journals and edited volumes.

Editor, Social Choice and Welfare.

Member of the editorial board – Review of Income and Wealth.

Member of the editorial board - Journal of Economic Inequality.

Adviser, National Council of Social Policy Evaluation, Maxico.

Consultant, Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines.

External evaluator of the World Bank, Washington, D. C.

Expert, United Nations Environment Program, Geneva

Expert, United Nations Development Program, New York

Grantee of the French Ministry of Education in 1997-'98.

Grantee of the German Research Foundation in 1988-'90.

Grantee of the Ford Foundation in 1980.

Authored eleven books.

The Bengal Economic Association presented to him the S.R.SEN Memorial Award for the Best Book in Economics for the year 2020, at the 40th Annual Conference of the Association held at Bethune College, Kolkata, during 29 February-1 March, 2020.(Book Details: Inequality, Polarization and Conflict: An Analytical Study(Springer, 2015).

Edited two books

Supervised five Ph.D. students.

Invited Lectures: (i) University of Aarhus, Denmark, (ii) Bar Ilan University, Israel, (iii) Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel,(iv) University of Kiel, Germany,(v) University of Osnabruck, Germany,(vi) Center for Economic Research, Tiburg University, The Netherlands, (vii) University of Paris 9, France, (viii) University of Bordeaux 4, France,(ix) University of Caen, France,(x) University of Lecce, Italy,(xi) University of Bari, Italy . (xii) University of Rome, La Sapienza, Rome, Italy, (xiii) Hiroshima University, Japan. (xiv) Prabhat Sarbadhikari and Panchanan Chakraborty Memorial Lecture, Jadavpur University, India. (xv) Okayama University, Japan.

Invited Lectures in International Conferences: (i) Bocconi International Conference 'Income Distribution and Welfare', Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, May-June 2002; (ii) WIDER International Conference 'Inequality, Poverty and Human Well-Being', WIDER, United Nations University, Helsinki, Finland, May 2003; (iii) Siena Gini-Lorenz International Conference, University of Siena, Italy, May 2005; (iv) Bath International Workshop 'Emerging Research Themes in the Analysis of Inequality', University of Bath, Bath, UK, June 2005; (v) International Conference 'Liberalization Experiences in Asia: A Normative Appraisal', New Delhi, January, 2006; (vi) International Conference 'Growth, Inequality and Institutions', organized by The Center for International Governance Innovation, Canada, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and National Institute for Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi, November 2008; (vii) Mini International Conference on Game Theory organized by The Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan, July 2009; (viii) International Workshop 'Rights in Economics and Law', Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, March 2010; (ix) International Conference 'Economic Theory, Markets and Institutions of Governance', Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, March 2010; (x) International Conference 'Multidimensional Poverty and Inequality Measurement', Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, May 2012; (xi) International Conference 'Poverty Reduction in Asia: Drivers, Best Practices and Policy Initiative', Organized by Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines and Sogang University, Seoul, the Republic of Korea, August 2013; (xii) International Conference 'Untold Side of the Asian Poverty Reduction Story', Organized by Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines and Southwest University, People's Republic of China, November 2013; (xiii) International Conference 'Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific Workshop on Untold Side of the Asian Poverty Reduction Story', Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines, March 2014.