Dr. Sugandha C Huria

Assistant Professor

Area: Economics

Email: sugandha.c@greatlakes.edu.in

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Sugandha C Huria is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Great Lakes Institute of Management, Gurugram. Prior to joining Great Lakes, she was a Consultant (Grade-II) in the Services Division of NITI Aayog and an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), New Delhi. She has been a consultant with the World Bank on services trade competitiveness assessments for India, Pakistan, Jordan and China, and a researcher with Centre for Development Economics, and CWTOS.

Sugandha holds a PhD, an M.Phil. and an M.A. in Economics from the Centre for the Study of the World Economy (formerly CITD), School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), and a B.A. (Hons.) in Economics from Hansraj College, University of Delhi. She topped her M.A. and B.A. batches and was awarded the Ford Foundation Scholarship during her M.A.

Research

Sugandha’s research spans international trade theory, regional trade agreements, foreign direct investment, services trade, wage inequality and the digitalization of MSMEs. She has published in Review of International Economics, The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, Indian Economic Review, Journal of Quantitative Economics and Economic and Political Weekly, among others, and has contributed chapters to volumes published by Springer and Routledge. She has also authored policy reports for the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, the World Bank and UN ESCAP, among others. Her research has won seven best paper awards at national conferences.

Teaching

Sugandha teaches microeconomics, macroeconomics, international trade and trade analytics. She has taught at IIFT, IIM Rohtak, Delhi Technological University, BML Munjal University, SRM University and the University of Delhi (SRCC and Sri Venkateswara College). She has also delivered training programmes for Ministry of Commerce and Industry officials, CWTOS researchers, and armed forces officers.

Service

Sugandha serves as Assistant Editor of Ecofunomics and Joint Secretary of the Association for Environment and Development Research (AEDR), and is a member of the Royal Economic Society. At IIFT, she was faculty convener of the Economics Society and the Economics Placement Cell, Programme Director for the MBA (IB) Weekend programme and Co-Editor of the IIFT Working Paper Series.

Journal Articles (Refereed)

Jain, N., Huria, S., & Sharma, K. (2026). Digitalization, Productivity, and Trade: Evidence from India’s Unorganized MSMEs. International Journal of the Economics of Business (online first). https://doi.org/10.1080/13571516.2026.2673493
Bharti, N., Huria, S., Jose, A., & Pathania, K. (2026). E-commerce, and India’s Retail and Manufacturing Sectors: An Empirical Investigation. Journal of Quantitative Economics, 24(1), 227–254. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40953-025-00464-8
Mondal, S., Huria, S., & Azharuddin, S. M. (2025). Can Service be a Catalyst for Industrial Output? Insights from Indian Manufacturing Industries. Journal of Quantitative Economics, 23(2), 389–408. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40953-024-00426-6
Arora, K., Huria, S., & Desai, A. (2024). Analysis of Trade and Technology Linkages through Value-Added Content in India’s Exports to SASEC Countries. Journal of Business Thought, 15, 11–28. https://doi.org/10.18311/jbt/2024/44034
Pant, M., & Huria, S. (2023). Cost-Reducing Technologies and Labor Supply in a Krugman-type Model where Consumption is Time-Constrained: Some New Results. The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 23(2), 823–836. https://doi.org/10.1515/bejte-2022-0067
Pant, M., & Huria, S. (2022). Quantification of Services Trade Restrictions – Some New Results. Economic and Political Weekly, 57(10), 49-52. https://www.epw.in/journal/2022/10/special-articles/quantification-services-trade-restrictions.html
Marjit, S., Pant, M., & Huria, S. (2020). Unskilled Immigration, Technical Progress, and Wages – Role of the Household Sector. Review of International Economics, 28(1), 235–251. https://doi.org/10.1111/roie.12448
Huria, S., & Pant, M. (2018). Foreign Direct Investment, Welfare and Wage Inequality in a Small Open Economy: Theory and Empirics. Indian Economic Review, 53(1), 131–166. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41775-018-0025-z
Huria, S., & Pathania, K. (2018). Dynamics of Food Inflation: Assessing the Role of Intermediaries. Global Business Review, 19(5), 1363–1378. https://doi.org/10.1177/0972150918788763

Book Chapters

Gupta, N., Huria, S., & Arora, A. (2026). Economic Effects of Environmental Provisions in Preferential Trade Agreements. In N. Kumar, A. Tandon & S. K. Das (Eds.), Transforming India’s Manufacturing (India Studies in Business and Economics). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-92-4684-7_13
Huria, S. (2025). Gains from Free Trade Agreements and the Role of Tradable Commodity Baskets – A Theoretical Analysis. In S. K. Mathur, P. De & A. Srivastava (Eds.), The Changing Profile of India’s Trade Relations: A Partial and General Equilibrium Analysis. Routledge. Book page
Huria, S., Sharma, K., Jain, N., & Jose, A. (2024). Digitalization and Exports: A Case of Indian Organized Sector Manufacturing MSMEs. In N. Kumar & S. Roy (Eds.), FDI, MSMEs, Digitalization, and Green Industrialization (India Studies in Business and Economics, pp. 79–101). Springer. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-97-8999-3
Pant, M., & Huria, S. (2024). Labour, Trade, and Wage Inequality: Some New Results. In S. Marjit & B. Mandal (Eds.), International Trade, Resource Mobility and Adjustments in a Changing World: Essays in Memory of Ronald W. Jones. Springer.
Pant, M., & Huria, S. (2023). Foreign Direct Investment, Trade and the Union Budget: Understanding the Issues. India Foundation Journal, March–April 2023 (D. C. Katoch, Ed.).
Huria, S., & Bawa, S. (2021). Mis(s)information and the Contemporary World. In Contemporary Issues of the Modern World. Economika.
Pant, M., & Huria, S. (2019). Trade, Investment, and the Multilateral Trading System. In R. Kathuria & P. Kukreja (Eds.), 20 Years of G20.

Popular Press

Indian, Chinese firms teaming up will pay off. The Hindu BusinessLine, July 29, 2024 (with Nikhil Rahangdale and Aishwarya Harichandan).
Engines to Aid Manufacturing. Telangana Today, July 25, 2024 (with Aishwarya Harichandan).
If AI steals our jobs, who’ll be left to buy stuff? Deccan Herald, April 20, 2024 (with Manoj Pant).
India’s emergence is vital for the global economy to keep growing. Mint, February 9, 2023 (with Manoj Pant).
Can Digitization be a Potential Driver for Improving MSMEs’ Export Performance? Indian Retailer, November 24, 2022 (with Neha Jain and Kriti Sharma).
Can e-commerce and MSMEs coexist? It’s complicated. Mint, November 18, 2022 (with Manoj Pant and Kanika Pathania).

Conferences

Sugandha regularly presents her research at national and international conferences, including the Australian Conference of Economists, the STEG Theme Workshop, the International Conference on Empirical Economics (Penn State University), the SANEM Annual Economists’ Conference and The Econometric Society of India’s annual conferences. She has been an invited speaker and resource person at Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, the Institute of Economic Growth, the Centre for WTO Studies and a King’s College London workshop on UK-India trade.