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The Quarterly Newsletter of South Asian University | Volume 4 Issue 2 December 2019

PIERS 2019

Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (17-18.10.2019) SAU FE News: The 7th Peradeniya International Economics Research
Symposium (PIERS), organized annually by the Department of Economics and Statistics at the University
of Peradeniya since 2013 saw active participation of foreign and local academics researchers and ,
policymakers. The Faculty of Economics, South Asian University, was a collaborative partner for this
conference, whose central theme was “Nothing to be Left Behind: Integrating Sub-national Dynamics
Towards Global Sustainable Development”.

Professor Arup Mitra, Dean, Faculty of Economics, SAU, delivered the keynote address, titled, Joint “
Efforts for Innovation and Employment-Intensive Growth . Dr. Debdatta Saha, Assistant Professor, ”
Faculty of Economics, SAU, was a part of the first panel discussion, which discussed issues of
entrepreneurship and efficiency of public expenditure.

International workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Measurement using R

New Delhi (01-02.11.2019) SAU FE News: The
Faculty of Economics organised a two-day
workshop on Efficiency and Productivity
Analysis using R on 1 and 2 November 2019. The
classroom-based workshop was focused on
both parametric and non-parametric
approaches to efficiency and productivity
measurement. The content of the workshop
was designed meticulously with the objective to
provide a healthy balance between theory and
hands-on applications. The course content of
the workshop covered both basic and advanced Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic
Frontier Analysis (SFA) models. There were 44 national and international participants in the workshop. It
was attended by doctoral students, post-doctoral fellows, academicians, and corporate professionals
working in the field of efficiency and productivity analysis. Professor Sunil Kumar was the convenor of the
workshop.

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