Development in India Micro and Macro Perspectives

S. Mahendra Dev is Director, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, India. After obtaining his Ph.D. from Delhi School of Economics (New Delhi, India), he did his post-doctoral research at Yale University, USA. He is also the Chair of the Committee on Terms of Trade on Agriculture constituted by the Indian Ministry of Agriculture. He previously chaired the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices at the Ministry of Agriculture, and served as Director of the Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS) in Hyderabad. His research interests include Development economics, Indian economy, Macro policies, Inclusive growth, Agricultural policies, Poverty and inequality and Rural development.

P G Babu is Professor at IGIDR, Mumbai coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus European Graduate Programs in Law and Economics, and Managing Editor of Journal of Quantitative Economics, official journal of The Indian Econometric Society (TIES) published by Springer. He has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Aix-Marseille, Bayreuth (as Adam Smith Chair Guest Professor of Philosophy and Economics), Hamburg, IIM Ahmedabad, Madras School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Warsaw School of Economics. He obtained his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. His research interests include Microeconomics and Game Theory with interdisciplinary applications to environment, law, philosophy and politics.

About Contributors:

Dilip Abreu, Princeton University, Princeton, USA

Dilip R. Ahuja, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India

P. Binswanger-Mkhize , China Agricultural University

Arka Roy Chaudhuri, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Avinash K. Dixit, Princeton University, Princeton, USA

Probal P. Ghosh, IRADe, Delhi, India

Priyank Jindal, IRADe, Delhi, India

Ravi Kanbur, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

Ashok Kotwal, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

SugatoMarjit, CSSS, Kolkata, India

Anil Markandya, University of Bath, Bath, UK; Basque Centre for Climate Change, Bilbao, Spain

KaivanMunshi, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

MilindMurugkar, PragatiAbhiyan, Nasik, India

Jyoti K. Parikh, IRADe, Delhi, India

Kirit S. Parikh, IRADe, Delhi, India

MihirRakshit, ICRA, Kolkata, India

Bharat Ramaswami, Indian Statistical Institute Delhi, New Delhi, India

Geeta Sandal, IRADe, New Delhi, India

Nirvikar Singh, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

T.N. Srinivasan, Yale University, New Haven, USA

Marti G. Subrahmanyam, New York University, New York, USA

Shyam Sunder, Yale University, New Haven, USA

Dragon Yongjun Tang, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Sarah Qian Wang, University of Warwick, UK