Jean Drèze : Research

Jean Drèze : Research

 Books and Reports (Reverse chronological list)

                1. Locked Out: Emergency Report on School Education (with Nirali Bakhla, Reetika Khera and Vipul Paikra), 2021.

1. 1. 2. Sense and Solidarity: Jholawala Economics for Everyone, Permanent Black, 2017 (also Oxford University Press, open-access edition).

1. 1. 3. An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions (with Amartya Sen), Penguin, 2013.

1. 1. 4. Social Policy: Essays from Economic and Political Weekly (edited), Orient Blackswan, 2016.

1. 1. 5. Employment Guarantee: A Primer (with Nikhil Dey and Reetika Khera), National Book Trust, 2006.

1. 1. 6. India: Development and Participation (with Amartya Sen), Oxford University Press, 2002.

1. 1. 7. The Economics of Famine (edited book), International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing, 1999.

1. 1. 8. Public Report on Basic Education in India (with Anuradha De and others), Oxford University Press, 1999.

1. 1. 9. The Dam and the Nation: Displacement and Resettlement in the Narmada Valley (co-edited with Meera Samson and Satyajit Singh), Oxford University Press, 1997.

1. 1. 10. Indian Development: Selected Regional Perspectives (co-edited with Amartya Sen), Oxford University Press, 1996.

1. 1. 11. India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity (with Amartya Sen), Oxford University Press, 1995.

1. 1. 12. Social Security in Developing Countries (co-edited with S.E. Ahmad, J. Hills and A.K. Sen), Oxford University Press, 1991.

1. 1. 13. The Political Economy of Hunger (3 volumes, co-edited with Amartya Sen), Oxford University Press, 1990; partly reprinted as The Political Economy of Hunger: Selected Essays, edited by Jean Drèze, Amartya Sen and Athar Hussain (Oxford University Press, 1995).

1. 1. 14. Hunger and Public Action (with Amartya Sen), Oxford University Press, 1989.

1. 1. 1. Academic Papers (Thematic list, mainly post-2000)

 II.1. Research, Policy and Action

1. 1. 15. “Policy beyond Evidence’, World Development, 127 (January 2020).

1. 1. 16. “Evidence, Policy and Politics”, Social Science and Medicine, 210 (2018); also available at Ideas for India and The Wire.

1. 1. 17. “Economics among the Road Scholars”, Ideas for India, 22 December 2017.

1. 1. 18. “On Research and Action”, Economic and Political Weekly, 2 March 2002.

II.2. Development Economics

1. 1. 19. “Food and Nutrition in India: Facts and Interpretations” (with Angus Deaton), Economic and Political Weekly, 14 February 2009.

1. 1. 20. “Militarism and Development”, in Clark, D.E. (ed.) (2006), The Elgar Companion to Development Studies (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar).

1. 1. 21. “Military Expenditure and Economic Growth”, in Clark, D.E. (ed.) (2006), The Elgar Companion to Development Studies (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar).

1. 1. 22. “Poverty and Inequality in India: A Reexamination” (with Angus Deaton), Economic and Political Weekly, 7 September 2002.

1. 1. 23. “Commodity Taxation and Social Welfare: The Generalised Ramsey Rule” (with David Coady), International Tax and Public Finance, 9 (2002).

1. 1. 24. “School Participation in Rural India” (with Geeta Gandhi Kingdon), Review of Development Economics, 5(1) (February 2001).

1. 1. 25. “Fertility, Education and Development: Evidence from India” (with Mamta Murthi), Population and Development Review, 27(1), March 2001.

1. 1. 26. “Crime, Gender and Society in India: Some Clues from Homicide Data” (with Reetika Khera), Population and Development Review, 26 (June 2000).

1. 1. 27. “Daily Wages and Piece Rates in Agrarian Economies” (with Jean-Marie Baland and Luc Leruth), Journal of Development Economics, 59 (1999).

1. 1. 28. “Distribution Matters in Cost-Benefit Analysis”, Journal of Public Economics, 70(3), 1998.

1. 1. 29. “Widowhood and Poverty in Rural India” (with P.V. Srinivasan), Journal of Development Economics, 54(2), 1997.

1. 1. 30. “Mortality, Fertility and Gender Bias in India: A District Level Analysis” (with Anne-Catherine Guio and Mamta Murthi), Population and Development Review, 21(4), December 1995.

II.3. Social Policy

1. 1. 31. “DUET: A Proposal for an Urban Work Programme”, Ideas for India, 9 September 2020.

1. 1. 32. “The Covid-19 Crisis and Food Security” (with Anmol Somanchi), Ideas for India, 21 June 2021.

1. 1. 33. “Recent Social Security Initiatives in India” (with Reetika Khera), World Development, 98, 2017.

1. 1. 34. “Decoding Universal Basic Income”, Indian Journal of Human Development, 11(2), 2017.

1. 1. 35. “DUET Reexamined”, Ideas for India, 9 March 2021.

1. 1. 36. “Maternity Entitlements in India: Women’s Rights Derailed” (with Reetika Khera and Anmol Somanchi), SocArXiv Paper; forthcoming in Economic and Political Weekly, 2021.

1. 1. 37. “The BPL Census and a Possible Alternative” (with Reetika Khera), Economic and Political Weekly, 45(9), 27 February 2010. 

1. 1. 38. “Employment Guarantee and the Right to Work”, in Jayal, N.G., and Mehta, P.B. (eds.) (2010), The Oxford Companion to Politics in India (New Delhi: Oxford University Press).

1. 1. 39. “The Future of Mid-day Meals” (with Aparajita Goyal), Economic and Political Weekly, 1 November 2003.

 II.4. Food Security

1. 1. 40. “Casting the Net: India’s Public Distribution System after the National Food Security Act” (with Prankur Gupta, Reetika Khera and Isabel Pimenta), Economic and Political Weekly, 9 February 2019.

1. 1. 41. “Aadhaar and Food Security in Jharkhand: Pain without Gain?” (with Nazar Khalid, Reetika Khera and Anmol Somanchi), Economic and Political Weekly, 16 December 2017.

1. 1. 42. “Food Security: Bihar on the Move” (with Reetika Khera and Jessica Pudussery), Economic and Political Weekly, 22 August 2015.

1. 1. 43. “Understanding Leakages in the Public Distribution System” (with Reetika Khera), Economic and Political Weekly, 14 February 2015.

1. 1. 44. “Stunting Among Children: Facts and Implications” (with Diane Coffey, Angus Deaton, Dean Spears and Alessandro Tarozzi), Economic and Political Weekly, 24 August 2013.

1. 1. 45. “Rural Poverty and the Public Distribution System” (with Reetika Khera), Economic and Political Weekly, 16 November 2013.

II.5. Child Development

1. 1. 46. “Stunting Among Children: Facts and Implications” (with Diane Coffey, Angus Deaton, Dean Spears and Alessandro Tarozzi), Economic and Political Weekly, 24 August 2013.

1. 1. 47. “Early Childhood in India: Facing the Facts” (with Reetika Khera and Sudha Narayanan), Indian Journal of Human Development, 1(2), July-December 2007.

1. 1. 48. “Strategies for Children Under Six” (with Arun Gupta and others), Economic and Political Weekly, 29 December 2007.

1. 1. 49. “Universalization with Quality: ICDS in a Rights Perspective’, Economic and Political Weekly, 26 August 2006.

II.5. Democracy and Social Inequality

1. 1. 50. “The Revolt of the Upper Castes”, published in the inaugural issue of CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, 2020; also available at The India Forum, 6 March 2020.

1. 1. 51. “Caste and the Power Elite in Allahabad” (with Ankita Aggarwal and Aashish Gupta), Economic and Political Weekly, 7 February 2015.

1. 1. 52. “Chomsky in India”, Introduction to Chomsky, N. (2014), Democracy and Power: The Delhi Lectures, OpenBook Publishers, 2014.

1. 1. 53. “Dr. Ambedkar and the Future of Indian Democracy”, Indian Journal of Human Rights, 9(1&2), Jan-Dec 2005; revised version in Yengde, S., and Teltumbde, A. (eds.)(2018), The Radical Ambedkar: Critical Reflections (New Delhi: Penguin).

1. 1. 54. “Democracy and the Right to Food”, Economic and Political Weekly, 24 April 2004.

1. 1. 55. “Democratic Practice and Social Inequality in India” (with Amartya Sen), Journal of Asian and African Studies, 37(2), 2002.

1. 1. 56. “Militarism, Development and Democracy”, Economic and Political Weekly, 1 April 2000.

II.6. Miscellaneous 

1. 1. 57. “Pauses and Reversals of Infant Mortality Decline in India in 2017 and 2018” (with Aashish Gupta, Sai Ankit Parashar and Kanika Sharma), Economic and Political Weekly, 8 May 2021.

1. 1. 58. “Balancing Corruption and Exclusion: A Rejoinder” (with Reetika Khera and Anmol Somanchi), Ideas for India, 28 September 2020.
      59.  “The Real Insights of Game Theory”, Economic and Political Weekly, 2 April 2016.

1. 1. 60. “Regional Patterns of Human and Child Deprivation in India” (with Reetika Khera), Economic and Political Weekly, 29 September 2012.

1. 1. 61. “Child Sex Ratio and Sex Selection: Old Fallacies in New Bottles”, Economic and Political Weekly, 22 September 2012.

1. 1. 62. “Imperialist Globalisation versus Global Solidarity”, in Jai Sen (ed.) (2006), Interrogating Empires (New Delhi: Zubaan).

1. 1. 63. “Education and Development: An Unfinished Discovery”, in Kumar, R., Sethi, A., and Sikka, S. (eds.)(2005), School, Society, Nation: Popular Essays in Education (New Delhi: Orient Longman).

1. 1. 64. “Patterns of Literacy and their Social Context”, in Veena Das et al. (eds.) (2003) Encyclopedia of Sociology and Social Anthropology (New Delhi: Oxford University Press).

1. 1. 65. “War and Famines”, in Desai, V., and Potter, R.B. (eds.) (2002), The Companion to Development Studies (London: Arnold).

III. Selected Op-Eds^* (Reverse chronological list, back to 2017)

 ^* Other than the 50-odd articles included in Sense and Solidarity: Jholawala Economics for Everyone.

1. 1. 66. “Children Locked Out”, Indian Express, 16 September 2021.

1. 1. 67. “Still Short of Schooling at 74”, The Hindu, 15 August 2021.

1. 1. 68. “Without Aadhaar, Without Identity” (with Vyom Anil), Indian Express, 5 July.

1. 1. 69. “Not Having the Have-nots” (with Anmol Somanchi), Economic Times, 21 June 2021.

1. 1. 70. “India Needs a Second Wave of Relief Measures”, Quint, 11 May 2021.

1. 1. 71. “Needed: Free Jabs for All”, Indian Express, 5 May 2021.

1. 1. 72. “Abuse of Aadhaar Ultimatum”, Indian Express, 20 April 2021.

1. 1. 73. “Food Maths”, Indian Express, 23 January 2021.

1. 1. 74. “Stagnation, In Fact” (rejoinder to Surjit Bhalla), Indian Express, 2 January 2021.

1. 1. 75. “DRAMA at the Farmgate”, Economic Times, 22 December 2020; also available at Ideas for India.

1. 1. 76. “Give Children Weight”, Indian Express, 17 December 2020.

1. 1. 77. “A “Duet” for India’s Urban Women”, The Hindu, 8 December 2020.

1. 1. 78. “Amartya Sen: The Original Argumentative Indian par Excellence”, Scroll, 25 October 2020.

1. 1. 79. “An Indian Duet for Urban Jobs”, BloombergQuint, 10 September 2020.

1. 1. 80. “The Uneven Decline of Health Services Across States during the Lockdown” (with Vipul Paikra), The Wire, 7 October 2020.

1. 1. 81. “India is in Denial about the COVID-19 Crisis”, Scientific American, 25 August 2020.

1. 1. 82. “Averting Hunger during Monsoon Calls for Bold Food Security Measures”, Indian Express, 9 June 2020.

1. 1. 83. “The Need for a Million Worksite Now”, The Hindu, 25 May 2020.

1. 1. 84. “Getting Cash Transfers Out of a Jam” (with Reetika Khera), The Hindu, 13 May 2020.

1. 1. 85. “Cash to the poor is good – but will they be able to access it safely from banks?” (original title: ‘The Coming Cash Crunch’), Scroll, 21 April.

1. 1. 86. “Excess Rice for Hand Sanitizers – But Not for the Starving”, NDTV, 21 April 2020.

1. 1. 87. “Break the Food Lockdown”, Indian Express, 9 April 2020.

1. 1. 88. “‘The finance minister’s Covid-19 relief package is helpful, but there are gaping holes in it”(original title: ‘Open the Godowns Now!’), Economic Times, 28 March 2020.

1. 1. 89. “Has the Finance Minister Pulled a Fast One on MNREGA Workers?”, The Wire, 27 March 2020.

1. 1. 90. “Beware of a Lopsided Lockdown”, The Hindu, 26 March 2020.

1. 1. 91. “‘The Perils of an All-out Lockdown”, The Hindu, 23 March 2020.

1. 1. 92. “India Adrift” (with Amartya Sen), The Telegraph, 15 March 2020.

1. 1. 93. “Budget 2020: Giving NREGA Workers their Due”, Bloomberg/Quint (www.bloombergquint.com), 20 January 2020.

1. 1. 94. “Doing Justice to NYAY”, Ideas for India, 1 May 2019.

1. 1. 95. “Making Sense of NYAY”, Indian Express, 5 April 2019.

1. 1. 96. “The Mother of Non-Issues”, The Hindu, November 2019.

1. 1. 97. “Minimum Income, Maximum Gamble”, Scroll, 27 March 2019.

1. 1. 98. “A Bridge to Nowhere” (with Sakina Dhorajiwala and Niklas Wagner), The Hindu, 27 March 2019.

1. 1. 99. “Rash U-Turns, Half-Baked Plans”, Indian Express, 16 February 2019.

1. 1. 100. “Invisible People”, The Telegraph, 24 December 2018.

1. 1. 101. “Ill Fares Aadhaar”, Indian Express, 2 October 2018.

1. 1. 102. “Done by Aadhaar”, The Telegraph, 3 August 2018.

1. 1. 103. “Hollowing Out a Promise”, Indian Express, 13 July 2018.

1. 1. 104. “Know your Aadhaar”, Indian Express, 8 May.

1. 1. 105. “Aadhaar’s $ 11-Bn Question” (with Reetika Khera), Economic Times, 8 February 2018.

1. 1. 106. “Following the Grain Trail”, The Hindu, 17 January 2018.

1. 1. 107. “A Never-ending Nightmare in Kashmir”, The Wire, 10 January 2018.

1. 1. 108. “Maternity Entitlements on Hold”, Times of India, 11 January 2018.

1. 1. 109. “Aadhaar or Else”, Indian Express, 22 November 2017.

1. 1. 110. “Chronicle of a Starvation Death Foretold”, Scroll, 21 October 2017.

1. 1. 111. “Modi Government Gives Shock Treatment to Social Policy”, posted at ndtv.com, 11 September 2017.

1. 1. 112. “All that Data that Aadhaar Captures”, The Hindu, 9 September 2017.

1. 1. 113. “Let’s not Suspend Disbelief”, Indian Express, 10 August 2017.

1. 1. 114. “Dissent and Aadhaar”, Indian Express, 8 May 2017.

1. 1. 115. “Are Ghosts Really Getting Midday Meals?”, The Wire, 28 March 2017.

1. 1. 116. “Giving Short Shrift to Children’s Rights”, The Hindu, 28 March 2017.

1. 1. 117. “Hello Aadhaar, Goodbye Privacy”, The Wire, 24 March 2017.

1. 1. 118. “In Jharkhand, Compulsory Biometric Authentication for Rations Sends Many Away Empty-handed”, Scroll, 12 February 2017.