Areas of Interest/Specialization: Gender studies, Informal Sector. Macroeconomics, Economics of Social Sector
 

MPhil scholars successfully guided: 1

Ph.D. scholars successfully guided: 3

Ph.D. scholars currently under supervision: 4

Teaching Experience: 19 years in UG and PG

Research Experience: 10 years

Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4728-3154

Web of Science ResearcherID: AAW-9226-2020

Research Projects

Ongoing: Viksit Bharat @2047 in Action: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Financial and Psychological Wellbeing of Mahila Career Agents working under Bima Sakhi Yojana" (7.7.2025) under the 2nd Call for ICSSR Longitudinal Studies in Social and Human Sciences. 

Publications

1. Odyuo, M., & Thangkhiew, D.W. (2025). What Determines the Socio-economic Vulnerability of Women in the Informal Sector? Insights from a Case Study of Vendors in Nagaland, India. The International Journal of Community and Social Development, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/25166026251319162 (First published on Feb 20, 2025) 
2. Odyuo, M., & Thangkhiew, D.W. (2024). Realities of Marketplace: An Enquiry on the
3. Struggles of Naga Women Vendors in Urban Nagaland. Man & Society A Journal of North-East Studies, 22(2). (Online first)
4. Pala, V., Thangkhiew, D.W., & Nongspung, A. (2024). Economic Status, Access to Higher Education and the Role of the State. Indian Journal of Human Development, 18(3), 455-464. (https://doi.org/10.1177/09737030241299262 1.)
5. Mawkhiew, B., & Thangkhiew, D. W. (2024). Major Problems Encountered by the Unorganised Manufacturing Sector in India. The Indian Journal of Economics, No.414, CIV, PART III.
6. Rymbai, M. S., & Thangkhiew, D. W. (2024). Fiscal Conundrum of the North-Eastern States of

7. India. The Indian Economic Journal, 0(0). (https://doi.org/10.1177/00194662241238487)

8. Mawkhiew, B., & Thangkhiew, D. W. (2023). Characteristics of Enterprises More Likely to Face Constraints in the Unorganised Manufacturing Sector in India. SEDME (Small Enterprises Development, Management & Extension Journal), 50(1), 13-22 https://doi.org/10.1177/09708464221130910 
9. Rymbai, M.S., & Thangkhiew, D.W. (2022). An Evaluation of the Public Healthcare Services and COVID-19 in the North-Eastern States of India: A Quantitative Study. Chettinad Health City Med J, 11(2), 15-23.
10. Rymbai, M.S., & Thangkhiew, D.W. (2022). Evidence of Prioritization towards Health Finance: A Microeconomic Perspective. South India Journal of Social Sciences, 20(1), 105-121.
11. Rymbai, M.S., & Thangkhiew, D.W. (2022). Does Health Financial Resource Correlate with Physical Health Infrastructure? Indian Journal of Public Health, 66(3), 287-291. DOI: 10.4103/ijph.ijph_535_22
12. Thangkhiew, D.W., & Rymbai, M.S. (2021). Is Public Health Expenditure Converging? Evidence from the North Eastern States of India. Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry, 12(10), 2054-2067.
13. Thangkhiew, D.W., & Rymbai, M.S. (2021). Fiscal Doldrums and Public Health Spending in the Fragile North Eastern States of India. Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry, 12(8).
14. Mawkhiew, B., & Thangkhiew, D.W. (2021). Informality in Manufacturing Sector in India. The Journal of Development Practice, 7.
15. Rymbai, M.S., & Thangkhiew, D.W. (2020). National rural health mission and the interstate variations in public health expenditure in India.
16. Thangkhiew, D.W. (2017). Determinants of dividends behaviour in the Indian iron and steel industry. EPRA International Journal of Economic and Business Review, 5(11).
17. Thangkhiew, D.W. (2016). Determinants of external finance in the Indian iron and steel industry. EPRA International Journal of Economic and Business Review, 4(6).
18. Thangkhiew, D.W. (2015). Determinants of inventory investment behaviour in the iron and steel industry in India: An econometric analysis. International Journal of Advance Research in Computer Science and Management Studies, 3(1), 196-208.
19. Thangkhiew, D.W. (2014). Determinants of fixed investment behavior in the iron and steel industry in India: An econometric analysis. Asia Pacific Journal of Applied Finance, III(7).

Chapters in edited books :

1. Mawkhiew, B., & Thangkhiew, D. W. (2024). Revealing the enterprise-specific characteristics affecting labour productivity of the unorganised manufacturing sector in India. In Holistic Research Perspectives (HRP) (Vol. 11, Chapter 2). NFED Publishers. E-ISBN: 978-81-954930-4-3
2. Thangkhiew, D. W. (2023). How well are the tribal-owned enterprises faring in India? Insights from the non-agricultural informal sector. In Safeguarding Tribal Identity (pp. 145-162). Lakshmi Publishers and Distributors.
3. Mawkhiew, B., & Thangkhiew, D. W. (2021). Size and sectoral distribution of the informal manufacturing sector: India and the NES. In Celebrating India @75_ (pp. 273-286). Windshield Press.

Papers Presented as resource person in seminars/webinars/conferences:

1. Assessing Financial Literacy and Participation of the Youth in the Stock Market in the North Eastern Region of India: A Case Study of Urban Shillong of Meghalaya (2025, November 10-11). International Conference on Sustainable Development Theory, Practice, Approach and Policy, Society for Pathways to Sustainability, Shillong.
2. Assessing the Quality of Worklife of Gig and Non-gig workers in the Informal Transport Sector in Shillong Urban Agglomeration (2025, November 10-11). International Conference on Sustainable Development Theory, Practice, Approach and Policy, Society for Pathways to Sustainability, Shillong.
3. Productivity of the Unorganised Manufacturing sector of India (2024, January 19-21). International Conference on Contemporary Researches in Engineering, Science, Management & Arts, Centre for Research & Training (CRT), National Foundation for Entrepreneurship Development (NFED), Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
4. Growth of Labour Productivity in the Unorganised Manufacturing Sector of India; A focus on the NES (2023, October 12-13). International Conference on ‘Rethinking Economic Development in India’, Nagaland University, Nagaland .

Other Academic Activities:

1. Resource Person: ‘Entrepreneurship and Informality’ in Refresher Course in Commerce and Management (online) (1st – 15th December, 2025), Organized by UGC-Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Centre, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong on December 5, 2025.
2. Resource Person: ‘Financial Economics’ in a Two-Day Workshop on “Teaching Economics for the North Eastern Hill University Four Year Undergraduate Programme Under NEP 2020” on 20-21st November, 2025 organised by St. Anthony’s College.
3. Panellist: Mizoram Chapter of the U S Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific: North Eastern Dialogue, organised by Observer Research Foundation in partnership with the United States Consulate General Kolkata, held on 25 September 2025, Aizawl, Mizoram.
4. Resource Person: One week India LICS-ICSSR NERC Training Programme on ‘Sustainable Development and Innovation System’, organised by ICSSR, North Eastern Region Centre, Shillong, during 13th to 19th of September, 2025.
5. Resource Person/Chair: ICSSR sponsored National Seminar on Exploring the Potential of Minor Forest Produces for Vikshit Bharat @2047 Challenges and Strategies for Northeast India in association with IQAC, Pragjyotish College,Post Graduate Department of Economics, Guwahati, Assam, 16-17 MAY, 2025.
6. Coordinator of Refresher Course in Economics UGC-Sponsored (W.e.f. 25th February - 11h March, 2025), organized by UGC- Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Centre, North-Eastern Hill University.
7. Field coordinator in Meghalaya: Project conducted as JSPS Bilateral Collaborations for 24th and 25th Feb 2025, Title of the Research Project: Female Entrepreneurship in India and Japan. Principal Investigator: Yuko Nikaido, Professor, Faculty of Economics, Musashi University.
8. Valedictory Keynote Speaker NFED IRICS 30th Jan-1st Feb2025.
9. Organised a Five-Day Workshop on “Teaching Economics for the North Eastern Hill University Four Year Undergraduate Programme Under NEP 2020” on 22-26th July, 2024 in collaboration with St. Anthony’s College, Shillong.
10. Organiser Yuvamanthan Model United Nations (YMUN), 7th June, 2024, NEHU.
11. Resource Person: ‘Mid-career Training Program’ on 21.07.2022, Regional Training Institute, Indian Accounts and Audit Department, Shillong.
12. Invited Lecture: ‘Let's talk Budget 2022’ VARTALAP- Media Workshop on 19th March 2022, Organised by Press Information Bureau, GoI in collaboration with Shillong Press Club.
13. Invited Lecture: "Education and Economic Growth -A Perspective on NEP 2020" S C. Dutta Memorial Lecture on the 14th December 2021, Organised by Department of Economics Shillong College in collaboration with the Meghalaya Economic Association.

 Membership and Academic Affiliations:  

1. Life Member of Meghalaya Economic Association 
2. Life member North East Economic Association.
3. Member of Internal Complaint Committee, NEHU, 2025-2028  
4. Member of Finance Committee of State Resource Centre, Meghalaya (2011-17)