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Maitreesh Ghatak was educated at the Presidency College, University of Calcutta, Delhi School of Economics, and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1996. He has been Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics since 2004, having earlier taught at the University of Chicago. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Development Economics since 2009 and the Director of the research programme Economic Organization and Public Policy (EOPP) at STICERD, LSE since 2006. Earlier he was the Managing Editor of the Review of Economic Studies, and a Co-Editor of the Economics of Transition. He is currently a member of the Executive Committee of BREAD, and a Lead Academic of the India-Bihar Programme of the International Growth Centre. He is a founder member of the research networks Theoretical Research in Development (ThReD) and Non-Profits, Governments, and Organisations (NGO). His areas of research interest are development economics, economics of contracts and organisations, and public economics. Current projects include the role of market structure in microfinance, land acquisition and compensation for displaced farmers, non-profits and social enterprise, and incentives and organisation design in public service delivery.
Posts by Maitreesh Ghatak
An assessment of policy performance under the current regime
Commenting on the recent policy paper by Subramanian-Felman, Maitreesh Ghatak discusses why – looking at the same numbers – he would tend to be less generous in his grades for the performance of p...
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Maitreesh Ghatak
01 February, 2021
- Perspectives
CPR-I4I webinar video: A new economic imagination?
Centre for Policy Research and Ideas for India jointly held a webinar on 16 September 2020, to discuss domestic demand specifically in rural India. It built on a recent I4I post by three of the speake...
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Yamini Aiyar
Maitreesh Ghatak
Ashok Kotwal
Mekhala Krishnamurthy
Bharat Ramaswami
30 September, 2020
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What would make India’s growth sustainable?
Much of the discussion on the economic slowdown in India in recent years – as well as on the government’s measures to tackle the present economic crisis due to the Covid-19 lockdown – is focused...
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Maitreesh Ghatak
Ashok Kotwal
Bharat Ramaswami
14 August, 2020
- Perspectives
इस साल के अर्थशास्त्र नोबेल की दास्तान
इस पोस्ट में मैत्रीश घटक इस बात पर विचार-विमर्श कर रहे हैं कि कैसे रैन्डमाइज्ड कंट्रोल ट्राइयल्स (आरसीटी; यादृच्छिकीकृत नियंत्रित परीक्षणों) को — जिसके प्रयोग की अगुआई इस वर्ष के अर्थशास्त्र में नोब...
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Maitreesh Ghatak
20 नवंबर, 2019
- दृष्टिकोण
What lies behind this year's economics Nobel
In this post, Maitreesh Ghatak discusses how randomised controlled trials – the use of which was pioneered by this year’s economics Nobel Laureates, Banerjee, Duflo, and Kremer – have been succe...
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Maitreesh Ghatak
25 October, 2019
- Perspectives
‘न्याय’ विचार-गोष्ठी: गरीबी के दीर्घकालिक समाधान के बजाय उपयोगी 'प्राथमिक उपचार'
लंदन स्कूल ऑफ इकनॉमिक्स के अर्थशास्त्र के प्रोफेसर मैत्रीश घटक का तर्क है कि न्याय द्वारा जिस तरह के नकद अंतरण के बारे में सोचा गया है, उससे जीवन निर्वाह के हाशिए पर जी रहे गरीब लोगों को कुछ राहत और स...
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Maitreesh Ghatak
17 मई, 2019
- दृष्टिकोण
NYAY e-Symposium: Not long-term solution to poverty but useful ‘first-aid’
Maitreesh Ghatak (Professor of Economics, London School of Economics) contends that a cash transfer, as envisaged by NYAY, will provide some relief and a safety net to the poor living on the margins o...
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Maitreesh Ghatak
02 May, 2019
- Perspectives
Can Rahul Gandhi’s minimum income guarantee proposal work?
Congress president Rahul Gandhi has promised a minimum income guarantee scheme for the poor if the party is voted to power in the upcoming elections. Discussing the proposal and associated concerns, P...
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Maitreesh Ghatak
07 February, 2019
- Perspectives
The big bank theory
The Indian banking system is saddled with non-performing and stressed assets, which currently constitute about a quarter of all assets. In this post, Maitreesh Ghatak argues that while there are valid...
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Maitreesh Ghatak
11 May, 2018
- Perspectives
Union Budget 2018: Unpleasant arithmetic and the art of the possible
In this article, Maitreesh Ghatak contends that while the Union Budget 2018-19 deserves some praise for signalling priorities given the constraints, it disappoints in terms of its vision of reforms.
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Maitreesh Ghatak
13 February, 2018
- Perspectives
Why 'free' speech is not always 'costless'
A recent CBI raid at the premises of the owners of NDTV has sparked off yet another round of debates about freedom of the media, the spectre of authoritarianism, and freedom of expression in India. In...
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Maitreesh Ghatak
19 July, 2017
- Perspectives
Free speech and the rule of law
In this article, Maitreesh Ghatak, Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, argues that the fight over freedom of expression in India is a shadow fight; the real fight is about preser...
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Maitreesh Ghatak
07 April, 2017
- Perspectives