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Aaditya Dar
Aaditya Dar is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Indian School of Business (on leave for the 2022-23 academic year). His research examines the social, political and historical factors that cause and accentuate poverty, and how individuals and communities can break away from these structural constraints. One strand of his work focuses on state capacity, governance and conflict, while another engages with issues in agriculture like technology adoption and structural transformation. Aaditya has a PhD from George Washington University, MA from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and BA from University of Delhi.
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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 दीर्घकालिक प्रभावों का अध्ययन किया गया है। वे पाते हैं कि कृषि उत्पादकता, जनसंख्या घनत्व और आर्थिक विकास के अन्य सूचकों में वृद्धि होने के कारण सिंचाई उपलब्ध होने का ग्रामीण क्षेत्रों में सकारात्मक प्रभाव पड़ता है। लेकिन सिंचित शहरी क्षेत्रों पर इसका उल्टा प्रभाव पड़ता है जहां गैर-कृषि आर्थिक गतिविधियों में गिरावट दिखती है।
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 composition of local economic activity. They find that while access to irrigation has a positive impact on rural villages by increasing agricultural productivity, population density and other indicators of economic development, the reverse is true for irrigated towns, which experience a decline in local non-agricultural economic activity.
Is Bihar the new poster boy for PDS reforms?
Food security is a critical issue and Bihar has made remarkable progress over the years. The aim of this project was to document the supply side reforms in Bihar’s PDS and explain why or why not these changes have been effective. The project tries to understand the level of leakage in PDS after implementation of National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013.
Does political background of leaders matter for development?
The objective of this paper is to investigate whether a legislator's political background matters for development/provision of public goods. This project studies this issue at the sub-national level in India by compiling biographies of legislators describing how they entered politics and measuring changes in provision of public goods in their constituencies.