School of Public Policy and Governance

The recent publications ( 2020-22) of the faculty at the SPPG can be classified as follows:

Pandemic and its many Precarities

Aseem Prakash & Hem Broker (2022), ‘Pandemic Precarity: Life, Livelihood, and Death in the Time of the Pandemic’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 57, Issue 5, pp. 40-45.
Aseem Prakash, Guest Editor: COVID-19 Pandemic in India: Response of State, Markets and Civil Society, Journal of Social and Economic Development, Volume 23, supplement issue 2, 2021.
Aseem Prakash (2021) 'Pandemic Precarity' Journal of Social and Economic Development, Volume 23, supplement Issue 2, pp. 229-233.
Arvind Pandey, Aseem Prakash, Rajeev Agur & Ganesh Maruvada (2021), 'Determinants of COVID-19 Pandemic in India: An Exploratory Study of Indian States and Districts', Journal of Social and Economic Development, Volume 23, supplement Issue 2, pp. 248-279.
Amit Sadhukhan & S. R. Chowdhury (2021), ‘Export Induced Loss in Employment and Earnings under the Covid-19 Pandemic: Identifying key industries in India’, Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 56, No. 41, pp. 54-60.
Ipsita Sapra (2021), ‘What new problems digitised classrooms create’ in D+C, Development + Cooperation

Markets and Inclusion

Aseem Prakash (2021), 'Markets and Aspiration' in Sujata Patel (ed.), Neoliberalism, Urbanisation, and Aspirations in Contemporary India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, pp. 233-256.
Aseem Prakash (2021), 'Dalit Enter the Indian Markets as Owners of Capital: Adverse Inclusion, Social Networks and Civil Society' Aakash Singh Rathore (ed.), B.R. Ambedkar: The Quest for Justice, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, pp. 190-2018

Dimensions of Urban Engagements

Aseem Prakash (2021), 'Everyday Politics of Economic Life in Small Town North India: A Social History of Kannauj through the Lens of the Ittar (Perfume) Business', Sociological Bulletin, Volume 70, No 4, pp. 467–484.
Debolina Kundu, Rakesh Mishra, Arvind Pandey & Devender Singh (2022), ‘Sex Ratio at Birth in Urban India,’ Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 57, No. 3, pp. 48-55.
Debolina Kundu & Arvind Pandey (2021), ‘Multi-level Measuring- Monitoring and Reporting on Urban Development in India’, IzR- Informationen zur Raumentwicklung (Information on Spatial Development), Volume 48, No. 1, pp. 60-73. ISSN 0303-2493 (Print) | ISSN 2698-8410 (Online). Germany: BBSR.
Debolina Kundu & Arvind Pandey (2021), ‘Sustainable Urbanisation in India and Delhi: Challenges and Way Forward’ (Background Paper in 23rd ASEF Summer University, ASEF Education Department). Singapore: Asia-Europe Foundation.
Debolina Kundu & Arvind Pandey (2021), [Review of the book Demanding development: The Politics of Public Goods Provision in India's Urban Slums by Adam Michael Auerbach], Environment & Urbanisation Asia, Volume 12, No. 2, pp. 344–347.
Khushboo Srivastava (2021), ‘Inciting Hopes for the Future: Civic Activism in London, Mumbai, and Paris Amid the Covid‑19 Crisis’, Metropolitics, June 2021. (Co-Authored with Yardımcı, Gimel & Borday)

Human Mobility

Ipsita Sapra (2022), ‘Stateless in India: Institutionalizing Homegrown Solutions’ in The Routledge Handbook of Refugees in India, Routledge India, New Delhi
Ipsita Sapra & B P Nayak (2021), The protracted exodus of migrants from Hyderabad in the time of COVID-19. Journal of Social and Economic Development, Volume 23, supplement Issue 2, 398–413
Meera Sethi, Debolina Kundu, & Arvind Pandey (2021), India-EU Migration and Mobility: Flows & Patterns. Austria: The International Centre for Migration Policy Development and the European Union.

Margins and Marginalities

Ipsita Sapra (2021), ‘Righting the Narrative: PMRDFs in Actualising a Human Rights-Based Approach to Development’ in Prabhu S and Prasuraman (ed) Making Development Happen: Transformational Change in Rural India Volume II, Orient Blackswan, New Delhi
Khusboo Srivastava (2021), ‘Empowerment and Subjugation: Re-conceiving commercial surrogacy as work–labour in India,’ Asian Journal of Women's Studies, Vol 27, Issue 4. 2021
Laxmi Lingam & Ipsita Sapra (2021) Behind India's lowest female labour force participation rates in the world in The Leaflet

On the Frontiers of the Economy

Amit Sadhukhan (2022), ‘India and China: Three Decades of Great Divergence’, in the Great Transition in Indian Society, World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore
Amit Sadhukhan (2022), comments in “$400 Billion Merchandise Exports Is A Great Achievement, But Can India Sustain This Growth?” interviewed by Thakur, N. the Outlook.

COVID-19 Series

State Policies

Corporate Response

International Response

Policy Briefs

Navigating to Normal: A Responsive Lockdown Exit Strategy