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Deepak Malghan

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
dmalghan@iimb.ac.in

Deepak is an Associate Professor at the Center for Public Policy, Indian Institute for Management, Bangalore. Deepak is primarily recognised for his contributions to reformulating ecological economics from a scale perspective. Malghan’s research is highly interdisciplinary and routinely uses tools from economics, chemical engineering, ecology, normative reasoning, and historical analysis.

Posts by Deepak Malghan

Declining common lands in India: Role of economic inequality

The area under common pool land resources (CPLRs), which are crucial to rural livelihoods in India, has recorded a steady decline over the last three decades. Common land is diverted either as private...

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Diversity and public goods: Why the geographical unit of analysis matters

Research has shown that regions with higher caste diversity have lower share of villages with essential public goods. This article challenges this finding and shows that empirical models estimated at ...

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A permanent cordon-sanitaire: Dalits and Muslims in urban India

Near-perfect segregation and hierarchical ordering of residential space, based on caste or religious identity, is a well-known feature of rural India. Studies have also documented the persistence of s...

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Residential segregation in urban India and persistence of caste

B.R. Ambedkar had exhorted lower-caste people to move towards cities to defy localism and benefit from the virtues of cosmopolitanism that urbanisation might provide. Using 2011 enumeration block-leve...

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