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Ashutosh Thakur
Ashutosh Thakur is an Assistant Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. He holds a PhD in Political Economics from Stanford Graduate School of Business and A.B. in Economics from Princeton University. Prior to joining NUS, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cologne's Cluster of Excellence ECONTribute: Markets and Public Policy. He is also a Faculty Associate of the Center on Asia and Globalization.
His research uses tools from market design, matching theory, and game theory to study institutional design in development and political economy.
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सकारात्मक कार्रवाई को लागू करने हेतु डिजाइन विकल्प
आशुतोष ठाकुर इस व्याख्यात्मक लेख में विभिन्न तरीकों की व्याख्या करते हैं जिनके जरिये सकारात्मक कार्रवाई नीतियों को लागू किया जा सकता है। साथ हीं, वे इसमें अंतर्निहित व्यापार और मुद्दों पर भी चर्चा करते हैं। वे काल्पनिक परिदृश्यों में खराब और अच्छा प्रदर्शन करने वाले उम्मीदवारों के संदर्भ में तीन कार्यान्वयन डिजाइनों – हार्ड कैप, ऊर्ध्वाधर (वर्टिकल) और क्षैतिज (हॉरिजॉन्टल) आरक्षण को चित्रित करते हैं। तथापि, व्यवहार में, विस्तृत मार्गदर्शन की कमी के कारण सकारात्मक कार्रवाई नीतियों का तदर्थ कार्यान्वयन हुआ है जिनके राजनीतिक माहौल और कानूनी प्रवचन के सन्दर्भ में लंबे समय तक चलने वाले परिणाम होते हैं।
Design choices for implementing affirmative action
In this expository piece, Ashutosh Thakur explains the various ways in which affirmative action policies can be implemented, and discusses the underlying tradeoffs and issues at hand. He delineates three implementation designs – hard cap, vertical, and horizontal reservation – in the context of poorly and well-performing candidates in hypothetical scenarios. However, in practice, the lack of detailed guidance has resulted in ad-hoc implementations of affirmative action policies that have long-lasting consequences for the political climate and legal discourse.
Rethinking cadre allocation procedures in civil services
The allocation procedure of All-India Services’ officers to states is an important aspect of personnel administration in the public sector. This article shows that a change in allocation policy in 2008 resulted in lower quality officers being systematically assigned to disadvantaged states. It examines the causes of these imbalances and impact on State capacity and development outcomes, and explores alternate mechanisms.