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David Blakeslee

New York University, Abu Dhabi
dsb12@nyu.edu

David Blakeslee is an Associatet Professor of economics at New York University, Abu Dhabi. He has obtained his Ph.D. from Columbia University. His research focusses on various aspects of the political economy of development, with a focus on South Asia and the Middle East. He has authored papers on the political and economic implications of party ideology in India, the relationship between economic shocks and crime in agrarian societies, and the functioning of education markets in Pakistan. In ongoing research, he will be exploring the effects of rural electrification on economic and institutional outcomes, the implications of opium production for the accumulation of human and physical capital, and the role of remittances in promoting development.

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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...

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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...

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Impacts of water loss on low-income farmers in Karnataka

Worsening environmental conditions threaten to undermine progress in reducing rural poverty. This article studies the effects of increasing water scarcity in India. It finds that drying up of wells re...

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Structural transformation and spillovers from ‘Industrial Areas’

A defining feature of economic development is the reallocation of labour from subsistence agriculture to manufacturing. To shed light on this process, this column analyses Karnataka’s Industrial Are...

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