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Dr. Rashmi Arora

Associate Professor

Area
School of Social Sciences
Faculty of Mgmt, Law & Social Sciences
E-mail
R.Arora6@bradford.ac.uk
Phone
+441274236802

Biography

Dr Rashmi Arora is an associate professor in development economics at University of Bradford, United Kingdom. She has worked earlier in the Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Griffith Business School, Griffith University and at the Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies, University of Wollongong, Australia. She has also worked in the Reserve Bank of India (India’s central bank) in its economic policy department for several years.

Her current teaching and research areas are development finance, digital technology including digital finance, economic growth and developing economies. She has published in several well-known international journals including Journal of Institutional Economics, International Journal of Bank Marketing, Australian Economic History Review, World Development, Applied Economics, Journal of Developing Areas, Third World Quarterly among others. She holds PhD in development studies from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and MPhil in applied economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. Rashmi is also senior fellow of UK Advance HE.


She is a member of American Economic Association, Australasian Development Economics Association, Association of Indian Economic and Financial Studies (AIEFS), USA and affiliate of Centre for International Development, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia and also Associate Member of New Zealand South Asia Centre, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. She is also a member of Responsible FinTech (ResFinTech) Research Group at the University of Bradford and steering committee member, ICT4D North of England.

She is on the editorial board of the journal: Management Research: Innovation, Sustainability, and Technology; associate editor, International Review of Business and Economics, University of Denver, US and subject editor of Journal of Banking, Finance and Sustainable Development.

She is also mentor with RES (Royal Economic Society) Women's Committee Mentoring Programme, UK for women economists and early career researchers. She is also academic adviser to the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (CSC), UK. She was also guest editor (jointly with T. Sarker, USQ, Australia) of special issue of the journal, European Journal of Development Research on the theme ‘Financing of Sustainable Development Goals and Covid 19’. Since 2021 she is also invited panel member for judging Global Undergraduate Awards (Economics category).    

Research

Development Economics, Financial inclusion, Digital finance, Finance and Development, Economic Growth and Development, Less Developed Regions

Teaching

Modules

  • International Economics - DEV7008-B
  • Finance for Development - DEV7001-B

Professional activities

Other activities (1)

  • Senior Fellow, Advance HE:

Professional associations (5)

  • Association of Indian Economic and Financial Studies (AIEFS), USA, Academic
  • Associate Member, New Zealand South Asia Centre, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, Associate member
  • American Economic Association, member
  • Affiliate, Centre for International Development, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, affliation
  • Royal Economic Society, association

Publications

Book (3)

Book chapter (12)

  • Role of Finance in Development (accepted)

    Rashmi Arora (2022) Elgar Encyclopaedia of Development . Edward Elgar Publishers.

  • Rostow Stages of Economic Growth (accepted)

    Rashmi Arora (2021) Elgar Encyclopaedia of Development . Edward Elgar Publishers.

  • Digital financial services, gendered digital divide and financial inclusion: Evidence from South Asia

    Rashmi Umesh Arora (2021) The Digitalization of Financial Markets: The Socioeconomic Impact of Financial Technologies. Routledge.

  • Finance and women empowerment in India: Can financial literacy help?

    Rashmi U. Arora (2021) Environment, Development and Culture in South and East Asia: Local, Regional and International Perspectives. In Edts Rajiv Thakur, Missouri State University, Stanley Brunn, University of Kentucky, Baleshwar Thakur, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi & Ramesh Dhussa, Drake University editor(s) Springer Nature.

  • Is Finance Accessible to All in South Asia?

    Rashmi Arora (2011) Public Policy Reforms on Development: Challenges before Emerging Economies (A Source Book) . Macmillan Publishers India Ltd..

  • Urban Transformation of Less Developed Regions: A Case Study of Uttar Pradesh, a Province in India

    Arora, R. U (2008) A. Thornton & A. McGregor (Eds.), Southern perspectives: proceedings of the 5th biennial conference of the Aotearoa New Zealand International Development Studies Network (DevNet). University of Otago.

  • Does Size Matter? Impact of Population on Economic Development in Uttar Pradesh

    Arora, R.U. (2008) R. Ghosh, K.R. Gupta and P. Maiti (Eds.), Development Studies. Atlantic Publishers.

Chapter in book (4)

Conference publication (2)

  • Finance and Human Capital: How Close is the Link?

    Rashmi Arora (2011) Proceedings of Global Accounting, Finance and Economics Conference. xx

  • Urban Transformation of Less Developed Regions: A Case Study of Uttar Pradesh, a Province in India

    Rashmi Arora (2006) Southern Perspectives on Development: Dialogue or Division. 1

Encyclopedia entry (1)

  • Central Banking, Development Aspects (110-112)Reserve Bank of India (599-601); Monetary Policy (475-477); Indian Agriculture (11-16); Financial Institutions (254-257)

    Rashmi Arora (2011) ABC_CLIO, California.

Other publication (2)

Peer reviewed journal (22)