Singh was appointed as a member of the faculty of economics at
University of Cambridge in 1965 and became a fellow of
Queens' College. Professor Singh published 17 books and monographs, and more than 200 research papers, of which nearly 100 are in refereed economic journals, including leading ones such as the Economic Journal, The Review of Economic Studies, European Economic Review, and the Journal of Economic Literature. Most of Singh's non-journal articles have also been peer-reviewed and included in important collections of handbooks produced by leading publishers such as Oxford University Press, or are included in books edited by Nobel Prize-winning economists such as
Amartya Sen,
Joseph Stiglitz and
Oliver Williamson. BA(Hons) graduates at
Queens' College with one of his graduating students, Nigel Cumberland After his mandatory retirement at the age of 67 as Professor of Economics at Cambridge, Singh was appointed Director of Research at the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF). Since then, Singh was actively engaged in the lecturing and teaching programme of the Centre for Development Studies in Cambridge. In 2011, Singh was the fifth holder of the prestigious Tun Ismail Ali Chair at the
University of Malaya. In 2012, he was appointed to the highly prestigious Chair, named after the current Indian Prime Minister, Dr
Manmohan Singh. He has been a senior economic adviser to the governments of Mexico and Tanzania and has advised almost all of the UN developmental agencies, including the
International Labour Organization,
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development,
UNIDO, the
World Bank and the
International Finance Corporation. Singh was elected an Academician of the UK
Academy of Social Sciences in 2004. In 2008, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Department of Economics of
Howard University, Washington, D.C., and in November 2010 he received the
Glory of India Award for 'individual excellence, excellent performance and outstanding contribution for the progress of the nation and worldwide'. ==Personal life==