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Souvik Dutta

Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology
souvik@iiitd.ac.in

Souvik Dutta is Assistant Professor of Economics at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIITD) since December 2019. He specialises in the fields of development economics, political economy, and game theory. Before joining IIITD, he was a faculty member at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) where he received the Young Faculty Research Chair (2015-18). He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Pennsylvania State University, a Masters in Economics from Delhi School of Economics, and an undergraduate degree in Economics from Presidency College, Kolkata.

Posts by Souvik Dutta

Decentralisation and spatial (mis)allocation of irrigation water

Canal water – an important source of irrigation in India – often tends to be unequally distributed among farmers within a geographical area. Based on a survey in the state of Odisha, following the...

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राष्ट्रीय स्वास्थ्य बीमा योजना (आरएसबीवाई) का स्वास्थ्य सेवा के उपयोग और खर्च को कैसे प्रभावित किया

सामाजिक स्वास्थ्य बीमा का उद्देश्य गरीबों को उनके स्वास्थ्य पर होने वाले अत्यधिक खर्च से बचाना और उन्हें स्वास्थ्य सेवा के अधिकाधिक उपयोग हेतु प्रोत्साहित करना है। इस लेख में, वर्ष 2004-05 और वर्ष 201...

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How RSBY impacted healthcare utilisation and spending

Social Health Insurance seeks to protect the poor from high health spending, and encourage healthcare utilisation. Analysing 2004-05 and 2011-12 Indian Human Development Survey data, this article find...

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Informal Insurance under Group Lending with Individual Liability

This study aims to provide empirical support to the hypothesis that informal insurance plays an important role in the context of group lending under individual liability, and to evaluate the impact of...

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Facilitating investment in organic food business through the right policies

The Indian government has undertaken several policy initiatives to promote organic farming and organic food exports, and many domestic and foreign companies have responded positively to these measure...

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Surrogacy bill: Implications and way forward

Contributing to the ongoing debate on India’s surrogacy bill, Dutta and Sarkar discuss the potential implications of the bill on the country’s billion-dollar surrogacy industry. They contend that ...

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Emergence of Bandhan as a bank: A new era in the Indian banking industry

At a time when the Indian banking industry is experiencing a steep rise in bad loans, Bandhan – an MFI with a near 100% loan recovery rate – has converted into a bank. Based on a survey of 112 Ba...

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