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Partha Saha

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Affiliation

  • Assistant Professor , School of Public Policy and Governance

Email

    partha@aud.ac.in

Qualification

  • ​​​​​​Dr. Partha Saha: Ph.D in Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
  • Trained in Economics, prior to joining this university, he has taught in the Jindal School of Government and Public Policy (O. P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat); worked as Deputy Director in erstwhile Institute of Applied Manpower Research (erstwhile Planning Commission, Govt. of India); and also worked in several other research institutions on policy research. His research interests include Rural Development, Labour Market & Employment Policies, Human Development, and Programme Evaluation. He can be contacted at partha@aud.ac.in.

 

 

Past Experience

  • [Since 2018 onwards]: Associate Professor, Public Policy & Governance, Dr. B R Ambedkar University Delhi.
  • [From 2016 to 2018]: Assistant Professor, School of Development Studies, Dr. B R Ambedkar University Delhi.
  • [From 2013 to 2016]: Assistant Professor and Research Coordinator of India Public Policy Report, Jindal School of Government and Public Policy, O. P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana.
  • [From 2010 to 2013]: Deputy Director, National Institute of Labour Economics Research & Development, New Delhi.

Area of Expertise

  • Public Policy
  • Programme Design & Evaluation
  • Rural Development & Agriculture
  • Labour Market & Employment Policies
  • Data Analysis

Courses offered at universities & institutions –

  • Economics for Policy Studies
  • Introduction to Public Policy
  • Introduction to Data Analysis and Database
  • Economic Development in Developing Countries
  • Programme Design and Evaluation
  • Current Indian Economic Problems (Selected Issues)
  • Development Economics
  • Macroeconomics
  • Microeconomics
  • Indian Economy
  • Economic Policies & Sectoral Development
  • Understanding the Rural
  • Development Context, Debates, and Experiences

Publications

  • Banerjee, K., Saha, Partha. (2010), “The NREGA, the Maoists and the Developmental Woes of the Indian State”, Economic and Political Weekly, July 10. [ISSN 0012-9976]
  • Co-author. (2011), “India Human Development Report, 2011”, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2011. [ISBN 978-0-19-807758-9]
  • Co-author. (2012), “Skill Mapping in Two Districts: Gurdaspur (Punjab) & Singrauli (Madhya Pradesh)”, Report No. 2012, Institute of Applied Manpower Research.
  • Santosh Mehrotra, Ankita Gandhi, Bimal Kishore Sahoo, Partha Saha (2012), “Creating Employment in the 12th Five Year Plan”, Economic and Political Weekly, May 12. [ISSN 0012-9976]
  • Santosh Mehrotra, Ankita Gandhi, Partha Saha, Bimal Kishore Sahoo (2012), “Joblessness and Informalization: Challenges to Inclusive Growth in India”, IAMR Occasional Paper No. 9/2012.
  • Santosh Mehrotra, Ankita Gandhi, Partha Saha, Bimal Kishore Sahoo, (2013), “Turnaround in India’s Employment Story”, Economic and Political Weekly, August 31. [ISSN 0012-9976]
  • Saha, Partha. (2013), Book Review of “Right to Work and Rural India”, and the review was published in Social Change, 43, 2, July 1. [ISSN 0049-0857]
  • Saha, Partha et. al. (2013), “Low Female Employment in a Period of High Growth: Insights from a Primary Survey in Uttar Pradesh & Gujarat”, International Labour Organization. [ISBN 9789221283508]
  • Saha, Partha. (2014), “Asset Poverty among Rural Households: An Illustration from Two Villages in Uttar Pradesh”, in Ramachandran, V. K. and Swaminathan, Madhura (eds.), “Dalit Households in Village Economies”, Tulika Publishers. [ISBN 783902859]
  • Saha, Partha. (2014), “Participation in Tenancy Market: An Analysis of Caste and Class in Two Villages in Uttar Pradesh”, in Suman, Chandra, K., Babu, Suresh, V., & Nath, P, K. (eds) “Agrarian Crisis in India”, Academic Foundation. [ISBN 9789332700321]
  • Saha, Partha. (2014), “Asset Ownership and Terms of Tenancy Contracts: Caste and Class in a Village in Western Uttar Pradesh”, in A. K. Singh & Santosh Mehrotra (eds) “Land Policies for Equity and Growth”, Sage Publication. [ISBN 9788132113607]
  • Saha, Partha., Mehrotra, Santosh. (2014), “Land Issues Then and Now in India: New Challenges and Policy Dilemmas”, in A. K. Singh & Santosh Mehrotra (eds) “Land Policies for Equity and Growth”, Sage Publication. [ISBN 9788132113607]
  • Mathur, A, K., Sharma, S, K., Saha, Partha. (2014), “The Vocational Training System: A Learner's Perspective”, in Santosh Mehrotra (ed.), “India’s Skills Challenge: Reforming Vocational Education and Training to Harness the Demographic Dividend”, Oxford University Press, New Delhi. [ISBN 9780199452774]
  • Saha, Partha., Verick, Sher. (2016), “State of Rural Labour Markets in India”, Working Paper, ILO Asia-Pacific Working Paper Series, International Labour Organization. [ISBN 9789221311881]
  • Saha, Partha., Verick, Sher., Mehrotra, S., Sinha, S. (2016), “Declining Female Employment in India: Insights from Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh”, in Sukti Dasgupta and Sher Singh Verick (eds) “Transformation of Women at Work in Asia: An Unfinished Development Agenda”, Sage Publications. [ISBN 9789385985041]
  • Sarma, Mandira., Saha, Partha., Jayakumar, Nandini. (2017), “Asset Inequality in India: Going from Bad to Worse”, Social Scientist, Vol. 45, Nos. 3 & 4, March-April. [ISSN 0970-0293]
  • Saha, Partha., Verick, Sher. (2017), “Casualization and Shift of Rural Workers to Non-farm Activities”, in D Narasimha Reddy & Kailash Sarap (eds) “Structural Transformation and Dynamics of Labour Mobility”, Springer. [ISBN 978-981-10-5628-4]
  • Saha, Partha., Satpathy, Maheswar. (2017), “How the Private Sector Develops Skills – A Case Study of YOUTH4JOBS: Skilling the Differently-Abled to Improve Lives and Meet Workforce Demand”, Istanbul International Centre for Private Sector in Development, United Nations Development Programme, Istanbul.
  • Rawal, Vikas., Saha, Partha. (2018), “Women’s Employment in India: What do Recent NSS Surveys of Employment and Unemployment Show?”, in Arindam Banerjee and C P Chandrasekhar (eds) “Dispossession, Deprivation and Development: Essays for Utsa Patnaik”, Tulika Publishers. [ISBN 9788193732915]
  • Saha, Partha. (2018), Book Review of “How Poverty is Generated” by Jonathan Pattenden, and the review was published in The Book Review, XLII, 10, October. [ISSN 0970-4175]
  • Saha, Partha., Karmakar, Krishanu. (2022), “Soil Nutrition and Fertilizer Use in Crop Production: Future Policy Imperatives”, Economic and Political Weekly, December 17, pp 37-44. [ISSN 0012-9976]
  • Saha, Partha. (2023), Book Review of “Land and Labour in Indian Agriculture: Discourses on Growth and Equity” by Prashant Kumar Trivedi (ed), and the review was published in Social Change, Vol. 53, No. 1. [ISSN 0049-0857]
  • Saha, Partha., Chaudhary, Ruchika., Verick, Sher. (2024), “The Rural Labour Market in South Asia: Challenges of Structural Transformation”, in Kailash Sarap edited “Labour Markets in Rural India: Dynamics and Emerging Issues”, South Asia Press, New Delhi. [ISBN 978-81-974489-7-3]
  • Saha, Partha. (2024), “Trends and Patterns of Employment in India: Are We Moving Towards Decent Employment?”, in Kailash Sarap edited “Labour Markets in Rural India: Dynamics and Emerging Issues”, South Asia Press, New Delhi. [ISBN 978-81-974489-7-3]:
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