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Praveen Jha

Praveen Jha

Praveen Jha
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
Email
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)
NA 

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.