Promoting interest in Indian studies

AIEFS is a non-profit academic organization founded in 1975 at Bloomsburg State University, Pennsylvania. 

Economists with interest in India felt a need to develop an identity for those involved in scholarly research on Indian economic and financial issues, to give publicity to their research outcomes and to educate the world at large on the realities of changing India. 

AIEFS objectives are to promote interest in the study of Indian Economics and Finance in its broadest sense, to encourage inquiry into, and analysis of the problems and issues facing the Indian economy and to facilitate communication and discussion among scholars working towards the above objectives.

AIEFS sponsors sessions at the annual ASSA, Western Economic Association and Eastern Economic Association meetings. It also holds biennial meetings either in the US or India. 

First biennial meeting in India was held in collaboration with Research and Information System for Developing countries (RIS) in June 2011 in Delhi, followed by 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2023 biennial meetings held in collaboration with Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research in Mumbai, Central University of Hyderabad, NCDS Bhubaneswar, Xavier University Bhubaneswar, and IIT Madras Chennai respectively. 

From time to time, AIEFS also publishes edited volumes or special issues in peer reviewed journals of papers presented at our biennial meetings.