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Kunal Dasgupta
Kunal Dasgupta joined the Economics area of IIM Bangalore in December 2018. Prior to joining IIMB, he was a faculty member at the University of Toronto. His primary research areas are international trade and economic geography. His current research focuses on trade barriers facing firms engaged in international trade, the role of trade in shaping spatial distribution of economic activity and misallocation.
Kunal holds a PhD in Economics from Princeton University, a MA in economics from Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi and a BS in economics from Presidency College, Kolkata.
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Land misallocation and industrial development
Although a large share of land in India is used for cultivation, large tracts of this are unproductive and produce low crop yields. In this post, Dasgupta and Rao explain their calculations to determine the minimum amount of land that would be required to meet the outputs for a set of crops. They argue that optimising land allocation can release millions of hectares of land for non-agricultural purposes, while also ensuring that food security remains unaffected.
