People
Rafiq Dossani, PhD
Senior Research Scholar; Executive Director, South Asia InitiativeShorenstein APARC
Encina Hall, Room E301
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6055
Research Interests
Asian entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley; financial, technology, telecommunications and energy-sector reforms in India
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Working Papers
- Origins and Growth of the Software Industry in India
Rafiq Dossani
Shorenstein APARC (2005)
- Indian Federalism and the Conduct of Foreign Policy in Border States: State Participation and Central Accommodation
Rafiq Dossani, Srinidhi Vijaykumar
Shorenstein APARC (2005)
- Prospects Brighten for Long-term Peace in South Asia
Rafiq Dossani
Shorenstein APARC (2004) - Went for Cost, Stayed for Quality?: Moving the Back Office to India
Rafiq Dossani, Martin Kenney
Shorenstein APARC (2003)
- Farmers' Willingess to Pay for Power in India
Rafiq Dossani, V. Ranganathan
Shorenstein APARC (2003) - Chinese and Indian Engineers and their Networks in Silicon Valley
Rafiq Dossani
Shorenstein APARC (2002)
- Creating an Environment: Developing Venture Capital in India
Rafiq Dossani, Martin Kenney
Shorenstein APARC and the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (2001)
Reports
- Report of the Committee on Technology Innovation and Venture Capital
Rafiq Dossani, Shri Nitin Desai, Shri Nandan Nilekani, Shri Saurabh Srivastava, Rajiv Lall, N.L. Sarda, Shri Shrawan Nigam, Shri Parag Saxena, Shri Romesh Wadhwani, Arvind Virmani
Planning Commission, Government of India (2006)
- Accessing Early-Stage Risk Capital in India
Rafiq Dossani, Asawari Desai
The South Asia Initiative, Shorenstein APARC, and The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) (2006)
Offshoring and the Future of U.S. Engineering: An Overview
Rafiq Dossani, Martin Kenney
The Bridge: Linking Engineering and Society vol. 35, 3 (2005)

- Enabling ICT for Rural India
Rafiq Dossani, D.C. Misra, Roma Jhaveri
Shorenstein APARC/National Informatics Centre (2005)
- Power Sector Reforms in India: Issues Relating to Agriculture
T L Sankar, Rafiq Dossani
IIMB Management Review (2004)
- Accessing Venture Capital in India
Rafiq Dossani
Shorenstein APARC (1999)
Journal Articles
Fixing Tariffs, Finance, and Competition for the Power Sector in India
Rafiq Dossani
Against the Current vol. 2 (2005)
Reorganizing the Power Distribution Sector in India
Rafiq Dossani
Energy Policy vol. 32, Issue 11 (2004)
Lift and Shift: Moving the Back Office to India
Rafiq Dossani, Martin Kenney
Information Technology and International Developoment vol. 1, No. 2 (2003)
Books & Book Chapters
India Arriving: How This Economic Powerhouse is Redefining Global Business
Rafiq Dossani
AMACOM/American Management Association (2007)

Prospects for Peace in South Asia
Rafiq Dossani, Henry S. Rowen
Stanford University Press: Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (2005)
Op-eds & Editorials
- The quiet revolution in the Indian workforce
Rafiq Dossani
Op-ed: FSI In The World on May 28, 2008 - After 60 years, Pakistanis struggle to find right course
Rafiq Dossani
Op-ed: The San Jose Mercury News on August 16, 2007



