Arvind Virmani was recently appointed director and professor of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER). Before that, he served on the Planning Commission, the finance ministry and in the World Bank. In this first interview after he took charge of ICRIER, he talks to Subhomoy Bhattacharjee about the economic outlook and where he plans to take this think tank. Excerpts.
How do you look at your role in ICRIER, as an administrator or as a scholar?
I would like to divide my working day into three parts. A third for administration-related work, a third for working on other