Rakesh Basant

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Rakesh Basant
NationalityIndian
Alma mater Gujarat University
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Rajasthan University
Centre for Development Studies
Occupation(s)Professor of Economics
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Website https://www.iima.ac.in/web/faculty/faculty-profiles/rakesh-basant

Prof. Rakesh Basant is an Indian economist and professor at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. He is the JSW Chair Professor of Innovation and Public Policy since October 2016. He was formerly a consultant with World Bank. [1] Currently, he is the Dean, Alumni and External Relations at IIM Ahmedabad.

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Education

After an M.A. in economics from Rajasthan University, Jaipur (India), Rakesh Basant obtained an M.Phil. in Applied Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (India), in 1981. He eventually completed his PhD in economics from Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, in 1990, with a thesis entitled "Technology Diffusion in an Agrarian Economy: A Study of Agro Mechanical Technology in Gujarat". [2]

Professional life

Basant has been a professor of economics at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. He was among the 3 people considered for the position of Director for the institute. [3] Basant is a member of Sachar Committee, wherein he has expressed views against the disregard for the Committee's terms and references. [4]

He has also delivered invited lectures in several US and European universities including Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Stanford, Berkeley, Lund and the London Business School.

Bibliography

Basant has authored many books, articles, research papers and case studies.

Books

He has co-authored the following 6 books:

  1. Handbook of Muslims in India: Empirical and Policy Perspectives, Oxford University Press; 2010 (Co-Author: Abusaleh Shariff) [5]
  2. IT Adoption in the Indian Auto Component Industry, NASSCOM, New Delhi; 2007 (Co-Authors: Pankaj Chandra and Rajdeep Sahrawat) [6]
  3. Growth and Transformation of Small Firms in India: Policies for Small Firms in the Globalisation of the Economy, Oxford University Press; 2001 (Co-Authors: Sebastian Morris, K. Das, K. Ramchandran and A. Koshy)
  4. Non-Agricultural Employment in Rural India, Rawat Publishers, Jaipur; 1998 (Co-Authors: B.L. Kumar and R. Parthasarthy) [7]
  5. Non-Agricultural Employment in India: Trends and Prospects, Sage Publications, New Delhi; 1994 (Co-Author: Pravin Visaria) [8]
  6. Agro‑Mechanical Diffusion in a Backward Region, Intermediate Technology Publications, London; 1990 (Co-Author: K.K. Subrahmanian) [9]

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References

  1. "Rakesh Basant - IIMA". IIM Ahmedabad faculty profile. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  2. "Rakesh Basant". IIM Ahmedabad website. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  3. "Row in IIM-A board: Ravindra Dholakia out, Rakesh Basant is in". The Times of India.
  4. "Sachar Committee: A Fraud on Nation". The New Indian Express.
  5. Handbook of Muslims in India: Empirical and Policy Perspectives - Rakesh Basant, Abusaleh Shariff - Google Books. Oxford University Press. 14 January 2010. ISBN   9780198062059 . Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  6. "IT Adoption in the Indian Auto Component Industry - Nasscom". NASSCOM. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  7. "NON-AGRICULTURAL EMPLOYMENT IN RURAL INDIA: The Case of Gujarat". Rawat Publishers. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  8. Non-agricultural Employment in India: Trends and Prospects - Google Books. Sage Publications. 1994. ISBN   9788170364191 . Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  9. "Agro-Mechanical Diffusion in a Backward Region". Intermediate Technology Publications, London. Retrieved 26 June 2020.