Varghese Manaloor, PhD

Email

manaloor@ualberta.ca

Phone

(780) 679-1191

Address

152 Hoyme Complex

4901-46 Ave

Camrose AB

T4V 2R3

Varghese Manaloor is the John P. Tandberg Chair in Economics at Augustana Campus, University of Alberta. Professor Manaloor completed his PhD from the University of Saskatchewan. He is also a fellow of LEAD (Leadership for Environment and Development) International. In 2005, he completed a 3-week summer certificate course on “Sustainable Environmental Management”, at the College of Natural Resources, Center for Sustainable Resource Development, University of California, Berkeley.

Professor Manaloor’s research interests are in food and nutrition policy, livelihood studies, and sustainable development issues. He has published in national and international journals and has presented several research papers at conferences. In the summer of 2008, Professor Manaloor helped organize the LEAD (Leadership for Environment and Development) Canada Professional Development Program at Augustana Campus.

Recent publications

Santosh Kumar Sahu, Varghese Manaloor, Prantik Bagchi (2022). “An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of COVID-19 on the Power Sector of India”. Energy Research Letters, Vol. 3 (2). DOI: 10.46557/001c.32617

Varghese A Manaloor, Karthick Radhakrishnan, Prabhakaran T Raghu, V Arivudai Nambi, & N N Kalaiselvan. (2021). “Measuring the economic status of different caste groups in rural India: An application of principal component analysis”. Indian Journal of Economics and Development Vol. 9, Id: IJED-2021-74, Pages: 1-9. DOI: 10.17485/IJED/v9.2021.74

Bijith George Abraham, Glen T. Hvenegaard, Varghese Manaloor & Hugo Narumiya, (2021). “Factors Affecting the Sustainable Ecotourism Development amongst the Tourism Service Providers in SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL”. South Asian Journal of Socio-Political Studies (SAJOSPS) Vol. XXI No. 2, 2021.

Islam S, Manaloor, V. (2021). “Millets for Food and Nutrition Security in India: Determinants and Policy Implications”. Journal of Nutrition and Food Security (JNFS); 6 (2): 185-192. DOI: 10.18502/jnfs.v6i2.6074.

Hood, G. A., Manaloor, V. and Dzioba, B. 2018. Mitigating infrastructure loss from beaver flooding: A cost-benefit analysis. Human Dimensions of Wildlife 23(2): DOI 10.1080/10871209.2017.1402223).

Varghese Manaloor, Srivastava, Divyanshu, and Shahidul Islam. (2016). “Growth of Organic Food Industry in India” AGROFOR International Journal, Volume 1. No. 2, pp. 69-76. DOI: 10.7251/AGRENG1602069M.

Kedar Kulkarni and Varghese Manaloor (2016). “Analysis of Agricultural Productivity and Energy Use in Indian Agriculture” (co-authored with Kedar Kulkarini). Inclusive Development: International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Volume 3, Nos. 1 & 2, pp. 23-28.

Varghese Manaloor, Rajeev Bhaskar, and Shabin Paul, (2017). “Food and Nutrition Security: Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities” Proceedings of the International Conference on Development Economics- Vol. 1, Post Graduate and Research Department of Economics and Department of Business Economics, Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai, India, pp. 18-22

Shahidul Islam and Varghese Manaloor, (2016). “Selling Organic Food Through Conventional Retail Stores”. Book chapter in, “Deciphering Organic Food; A Comprehensive Guide to Organic Food Production, Consumption and Promotion”. Editors: Ioannis Kareklas and Darrel D. Muehling, Nova science publishers. https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=60319

Varghese Manaloor and V.A. Nambi, “Temporal Analysis of the Infrastructure Tethered Cluster Level Household Economic Development in Wayanad’, Inclusive Development, International Journal of Social Science and Humanities, Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy (CSSEIP), Cochin University of Science and Technology. Vol 2 (Nos 1&2), 2015.

Prabhakaran T. Raghu, Varghese Manaloor and V Arivudai Nambi (2014 July), “Factors influencing adoption of farm management practices in agro-biodiversity hotspots of India: An analysis using the Count Data model”. Journal of Natural Resources and Development (http://jnrd.info/2014/07/10-5027jnrd-v4i0-07/). 

Professor Manaloor’s teaching interests are applied microeconomics (environmental and development economics). He has also taught courses in ethics in economics and business and economic methods of project evaluation. He has developed two interdisciplinary study tour courses to India and China in which students learn, first hand, the reform process, work of various institutions and development organizations,  and the 21st century challenges related to development.