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Aaditya Dar is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Indian School of Business (on leave for the 2022-23 academic year). His research examines the social, political and historical factors that cause and accentuate poverty, and how individuals and communities can break away from these structural constraints. One strand of his work focuses on state capacity, governance and conflict, while another engages with issues in agriculture like technology adoption and structural transformation. Aaditya has a PhD from George Washington University, MA from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and BA from University of Delhi.
Posts by Aaditya Dar
भारत में सिंचाई और स्थानीय आर्थिक विकास के स्थान आधारित पैटर्न
भारत की सिंचाई परियोजनाओं का उद्देश्य कृषि की उत्पादकता और ग्रामीण विकास को बढ़ावा देना है। इस लेख में ब्लेकस्ली एवं अन्य द्वारा स्थानीय आर्थिक गतिविधियों की संरचना में सिंचाई उपलब्ध होने के दीर्घकालि...
- David Blakeslee Aaditya Dar Ram Fishman Samreen Malik Heitor Pellegrina Karan Singh Bagavathinathan
- 21 अप्रैल, 2023
- लेख
Irrigation and the spatial pattern of local economic development in India
Irrigation projects across India are intended to boost agricultural productivity and rural development. In this post, Blakeslee et al. study the long-run effects of access to irrigation on the composi...
- David Blakeslee Aaditya Dar Ram Fishman Samreen Malik Heitor Pellegrina Karan Singh Bagavathinathan
- 25 January, 2023
- Articles
Does political background of leaders matter for development?
The objective of this paper is to investigate whether a legislator's political background matters for development/provision of public goods. This project studies this issue at the sub-national level i...
- Aaditya Dar
- 25 July, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Is Bihar the new poster boy for PDS reforms?
Food security is a critical issue and Bihar has made remarkable progress over the years. The aim of this project was to document the supply side reforms in Bihar’s PDS and explain why or why not the...
- Aaditya Dar Chinmaya Kumar Pankaj Verma
- 01 April, 2016
- IGC Research on India