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Ram Fishman is a Senior Lecturer of Public Policy at Tel Aviv University. Prior to coming to TAU, Ram was an assistant professor of Economics at George Washington University, and prior to that, a Giorgio Ruffolo Post-doctoral Fellow in Sustainability Science at the Harvard Kennedy School. Ram’s research is focused on sustainable agriculture, water scarcity and climate change, with an emphasis on developing countries.
Ram holds a PhD in Sustainable Development from Columbia University, a M.Sc. in Physics from the Weitzman Institute and a B.Sc. in Mathematics from Tel Aviv University.
Posts by Ram Fishman
भारत में सिंचाई और स्थानीय आर्थिक विकास के स्थान आधारित पैटर्न
भारत की सिंचाई परियोजनाओं का उद्देश्य कृषि की उत्पादकता और ग्रामीण विकास को बढ़ावा देना है। इस लेख में ब्लेकस्ली एवं अन्य द्वारा स्थानीय आर्थिक गतिविधियों की संरचना में सिंचाई उपलब्ध होने के दीर्घकालि...
- David Blakeslee Aaditya Dar Ram Fishman Samreen Malik Heitor Pellegrina Karan Singh Bagavathinathan
- 21 अप्रैल, 2023
- लेख
Irrigation and the spatial pattern of local economic development in India
Irrigation projects across India are intended to boost agricultural productivity and rural development. In this post, Blakeslee et al. study the long-run effects of access to irrigation on the composi...
- David Blakeslee Aaditya Dar Ram Fishman Samreen Malik Heitor Pellegrina Karan Singh Bagavathinathan
- 25 January, 2023
- Articles
Impacts of water loss on low-income farmers in Karnataka
Worsening environmental conditions threaten to undermine progress in reducing rural poverty. This article studies the effects of increasing water scarcity in India. It finds that drying up of wells re...
- David Blakeslee Ram Fishman Veena Srinivasan
- 20 March, 2020
- Articles
Adaptation to persistent drought and groundwater depletion: Evidence from Karnataka
By using a random sample of households from the 2004 KSNDMC study, this project conducts a comparative study of households’ coping capacity to two prolonged, 3-year droughts occurring a decade apart...
- Ram Fishman V.S. Prakash K. V. Raju
- 28 December, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Structural transformation and spillovers from ‘Industrial Areas’
A defining feature of economic development is the reallocation of labour from subsistence agriculture to manufacturing. To shed light on this process, this column analyses Karnataka’s Industrial Are...
- David Blakeslee Ritam Chaurey Ram Fishman Samreen Malik
- 07 December, 2017
- Articles
Adoption of Balanced Use of Chemical Fertilisers: Farmer's Response to Scientific Evidence and Social Learning
Government of India has launched a massive program of individualized soil tests and customized fertilizer recommendation, with the hope that scientific information will lead farmers to optimize the fe...
- Ram Fishman Avinash Kishore David J. Spielman
- 31 March, 2015
- IGC Research on India
Running out of water, walking away from farming
Groundwater tables are falling in India. What will happen when water actually runs out? This column analyses the impact of water scarcity on farmers in Gujarat. It finds that farmers are failing to or...
- Ram Fishman
- 18 December, 2013
- Articles
A Novel, Market Based Mechanism to Incentivize Efficient Groundwater/Energy use in Indian Agriculture – Setting Up a Field Experiment in Gujarat
This project documents patterns of rural-urban migration and employment shifts in a region that is facing ongoing depletion of groundwater resources in northern Gujarat in India. Given that migration ...
- Ram Fishman Meha Jain Avinash Kishore Anjal Prakash
- 01 December, 2012
- IGC Research on India