Dr Srijit Mishra was the Subir Chowdhury Fellow 2013-14 at LSE Asia Research Centre.
His research relates to development issues and he teaches a course on Human Development and Policy at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research| (IGIDR), Mumbai. Some of Dr Mishra's recent works are on farmers' suicides, a result of the larger agrarian crisis in India, and on a refinement of the Human Development Index. He is the Chair of Researching Rainfed Agriculture| (ResRA) of the Revitalizing Rainfed Agriculture Network of India. Previously he worked at Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE), Pune and Nabakrushna Choudhury Centre for Development Studies (NCDS), Bhubaneswar. His MPhil/PhD on tribal agrarian economies was completed at the Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Thiruvananthapuram and awarded by the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi.
Research Interests
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Applied development economics
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Human development
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Agricultural economics
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Public health
Selected Publications
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Mishra, S., Ravindra, A. and Hesse, C. (2013). Rainfed agriculture: For an inclusive, sustainable and food secure India. IIED Briefing Paper, 10041IIED
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Levesque, J.-F., Mukherjee, S., Grimard, D., Boivin, A. and Mishra, S. (2013). Measuring the prevalence of chronic diseases using population surveys by pooling self-reported symptoms, diagnosis and treatments: Results from the World Health Survey of 2003 for South Asia. International Journal of Public Health, 58(3): 435-47
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Nathan, H.S.K. and Mishra, S. (2013). Group differential for attainment and failure indicators. Journal of International Development
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Mishra, S. (2012). Hunger, ethics and the right to food. Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, 9(1): 32-37
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Mishra, S. (2011). Conflict resolution through mutuality: Lessons from Bayesian updating. Journal of Quantitative Economics, 9(1): 41-52
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Reddy, D.N. and Mishra, S. (eds.) (2009). Agrarian Crisis in India. Oxford University Press, New Delhi.