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Praveen Jha

Professor

Centre/School/Special Centre

Centre for Economic Studies and Planning,

School of Social Sciences

Room No

314, SSS II

Off. Phone

011-26704449

Residence

011-26741052

praveen@mail.jnu.ac.in praveenjha2005@gmail.com

Personal Webpage

http://www.jnu.ac.in

Qualifications

Ph.D. (Economics), JNU.

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Labour Economics, Agricultural economics, Development economics, Public Finance, Economics of education, History of Economic Thought

Experience

In India.
* Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, JNU, Dec 1995-Present.
* LBS National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, Aug 1994-Dec 1995.
* St. Stephens College, October 1987-1994.

Outside India.
* University of Bremen, Germany, for varying durations, 1999 to 2007.
* Visiting fellow, Tianjin University of Finance and Economics, Tianjin, China, May-June, 2008.
* Visiting Senior Research Economist, ILO, Geneva, May-July, 2009

Awards & Honours

Invited to be on several important committees some of which include the following.
* The Global Advisory Committee of UNDP as a member of the Governance Assessment Programmes.

* Committee of the State Planning Board on Creation of Employment Opportunities, Government of Tripura, 2010-11.

* Committee on State Agrarian Relations and the Unfinished Task in Land Reforms, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, 2008-09.

* Task force on Labour Laws, National Commission for the Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector, Government of India, 2007-09.

* Expert for Advisory Committee of Buddhist Study Centre of UGC.

International Collaboration/Consultancy

Have been part of a few significant International research initiatives. Some of these include:
Project on Rural Development involving eight countries supported by South Africa-Netherlands Programme on Alternatives for Development; International project on Bonded Labour; Member of the Core Committee on South-South Network on Agrarian Questions (the network is an initiate of academic from Africa, Asia and Latin America). Have worked as a consultant for UNDP, ILO, UNICEF etc.

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

1. Transnational Labor Migration, 1970s to Present in Ness, Immanuel (ed.) the Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, Willey Blackwell, 2013

2. (With Sam Moyo and Paris Yeros) "Imperialism and Primitive Accumulation: Notes on the New Scramble for Africa" Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, Vol.1. No.2, 2012

3. "Labour Regulation and Economic Performance: What Do We Know," Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 53 (1), 2010.

4. "Guaranteeing Elementary Education: A Note on Policy and Provisioning in Contemporary India",Journal of South Asian Development, Volume 2, No 1, 2007.

5. "Continuity and Change: Some Observations on the Landscape of Agricultural Labourers in North Bihar, India", Journal of Agrarian Change, 4 (4), 2004.

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

1. Public Provisioning for Elementary Education in India, (with others), Sage Publications, 2008

2. Agricultural Labour in India, Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi, 1997.

3. "Labour Conditions in Rural India: Reflections on Continuity and Change" in Carlos Oya and Nicola Pontara (eds.), Rural Wage Employment in Developing Countries: Theory, Evidence and Policy, Routledge, 2013.

Patents (if any)