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{{Infobox economist<br />
| name = Bagicha Singh Minhas<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date text|1929}}<br />
| birth_place = Damunda, [[Jalandhar]]<br />
| alma_mater = [[Khalsa College, Amritsar|Khalsa College]], Punjab University, University of Illinois, Stanford University<br />
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'''Bagicha Singh Minhas''' (1929-2005) is an Indian economist.<br />
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==Education==<br />
Minhas was born in [[Damunda, Dist Jalandhar Punjab (British India)|Punjab]], [[British India]], and obtained his [[Undergraduate degree|first degree]] of BSc (agriculture) from [[Khalsa College, Amritsar|Khalsa College]], Amritsar, and a [[Master of Economics|Master's degree in economics]] from [[University of the Punjab|Punjab University]]. He then obtained another degree<!-- another master's degree? --> from the [[University of Illinois]], USA, and followed it up with a PhD in economics from [[Stanford University]], USA. He taught economics at Stanford as an [[Professor|Assistant Professor]], but later returned to India as a Research Professor and became Head of the Planning Division at the [[Indian Statistical Institute]] from 1971 to 1986.<br />
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==Career==<br />
Minhas was a member of the Indian Planning Commission from 1971 to 1973. Simultaneously, in 1972–73, Minhas was appointed a member of the Finance Commission. He worked on planning strategies as well as [[financial analysis]].<br />
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Minhas worked as a Consultant to the [[World Bank]] at Washington D.C. and the Statistics and Survey Division of the [[Food and Agriculture Organization|Food and Agricultural Organization]] (Rome). In 1976–78, he worked as a Senior Fellow at the [[Institute of Development Studies]] (IDS) at the University of Sussex in the UK and, a little later, he held appointments as visiting professor at [[Johns Hopkins University]] and as [[Rufus Putnam]] Visiting Professor at Ohio. From 1981 to 1984, he served as Secretary General of the Afro-Asian Rural Reconstruction Organization and also Chairman of the National [[Sampling (statistics)|Sample Survey]] (NSS) Organization (1980–90).<br />
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Minhas has been a Fellow of the [[Econometric Society]] (1973), a National Fellow at the [[Indian Council of Social Science Research]] (1990–92) and a life member of the [[American Economic Association]]. From 1992 to 1993, he was the President of the Indian Economic Society and, from 1994 to 1998, the President of the Indian Association for Research in National Income & Wealth.<br />
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The Financial Express Award for Economics 1999 was presented to Minhas at the Annual Conference of the Indian Economic Association at Amritsar on 27 December 1999.<br />
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Minhas then received the [[Padma Bhushan]] Award in 2003 for science and engineering.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |access-date=21 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2015 }}</ref><br />
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Minhas was a co-author of a pioneering article deriving the [[constant elasticity of substitution]] production function and demonstrating its econometric uses. Future Nobel Memorial Prize laureates [[Kenneth Arrow]] and [[Robert Solow]] were co-authors.<ref>Arrow, Kenneth J., et al. "Capital-labor substitution and economic efficiency." The Review of Economics and Statistics (1961): 225-250.</ref><br />
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