[1][2] Desai also served as honorary director of Centre for Parliamentarians on Population and Development in New Delhi.
Desai was Rapporteur General at the United Nations world population conference in Bucharest in 1974.
He additionally served as a fellow at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
[3] After retirement from IEG, Desai worked in Peace Research Center at Gujarat Vidyapith in Ahmedabad.
[8] • Studies in Demography, Ashish Bose, P. B. Desai, and S. P. Jain (eds), Chapel Hill, Univ of North Carolina Press, 1972.
Papers and proceedings of the International Seminar on Urban and Industrial Growth of Kanpur Region January 29 to February 4, 1967.
Published by UGC-UNFPA Project, Task Force on Curriculum Development, Population Education Resource Centre, Department of Adult & Continuing Education & Extension Work, Gujarat Vidyapith.
He was jailed for about 10 months during the Indian independence movement, including in solitary confinement for some time.