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Jean Drèze studied Mathematical Economics at the University of Essex and did his Ph.D. at the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi. He has taught at the London School of Economics and the Delhi School of Economics, and is currently Visiting Professor at Ranchi University as well as Honorary Professor at the Delhi School of Economics. He has made wide-ranging contributions to development economics and public policy, with special reference to India. His research interests include rural development, social inequality, elementary education, child nutrition, health care and food security. Jean Drèze is co-author (with Amartya Sen) of Hunger and Public Action (Oxford University Press, 1989) and An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions (Penguin, 2013)", and also one of the co-authors of the Public Report on Basic Education in India, also known as “PROBE Report”.
Posts by Jean Drèze
भारत में स्थिर वास्तविक मज़दूरी की समस्या
श्रम ब्यूरो और राष्ट्रीय नमूना सर्वेक्षण कार्यालय के नए नए आँकड़े पिछले एक दशक में भारत में वास्तविक मज़दूरी के वास्तविक ठहराव की ओर इशारा करते हैं। इस शोध आलेख में दास और ड्रेज़ तर्क देते हैं कि यह प्र...
- Arindam Das Jean Drèze
- 18 अक्टूबर, 2024
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The problem of India’s stagnant real wages
New data from the Labour Bureau and the National Sample Survey Office point to a virtual stagnation of real wages in India over the past decade. In this post, Das and Drèze argue that this trend poin...
- Arindam Das Jean Drèze
- 26 July, 2024
- Perspectives
100 million tonnes of cereals are missing… every year
In an earlier I4I post, Drèze and Oldiges drew attention to India’s ‘cereal gap’ – a large difference between net availability of cereals and household consumption. In this post, they use rec...
- Jean Drèze Christian Oldiges
- 05 July, 2024
- Perspectives
The ‘cereal gap’: Looming issues in India’s foodgrain policy
Cereal production in India recently crossed 300 million tonnes for the first time. In this post, Drèze and Oldiges point out that a major gap has emerged between the net availability of cereals and h...
- Jean Drèze Christian Oldiges
- 18 April, 2024
- Perspectives
Weighty evidence? Poverty estimation with missing data
Attempts have been made to estimate poverty in India with biased survey data, by adjusting household weights to remove the bias. Based on simulation exercises with artificially contaminated household ...
- Jean Drèze Anmol Somanchi
- 10 April, 2023
- Perspectives
Jacques Drèze’s intellectual journey
Eminent economist Jacques Drèze passed away on 25 September 2022 at the age of 93. Professor Drèze was known for his contributions to economic theory and public policy, from general equilibrium anal...
- Jean Drèze
- 24 October, 2022
- Perspectives
बुढ़ापे का भविष्य
भारत में बुजुर्गों के लिए सार्वजनिक सहायता के व्यापक स्तर पर विस्तार की आवश्यकता है। ड्रेज़ और डफ्लो इस लेख में तर्क देते हैं कि इसकी अच्छी शुरुआत निकट-सर्वव्यापक सामाजिक सुरक्षा पेंशन से हो सकती है। ...
- Jean Drèze Esther Duflo
- 07 अक्टूबर, 2022
- दृष्टिकोण
The future of old times
India needs to plan for a radical expansion of public support for the elderly. In this piece, Drèze and Duflo argue that near-universal social security pensions would be a good start. Elderly persons...
- Jean Drèze Esther Duflo
- 26 September, 2022
- Perspectives
अंतर्निहित प्रयोगों में जोखिम
शोधकर्ताओं और नीति-निर्माताओं द्वारा एक टीम के रूप में किये जा रहे 'अंतर्निहित प्रयोगों' में रुचि बढ़ रही है। क्षमता के पैमाने के अलावा,इन प्रयोगों का मुख्य आकर्षण किये गए शोध को शीघ्र ही नीति में पर...
- Jean Drèze
- 19 मई, 2022
- दृष्टिकोण
Memories of Ashok Kotwal
Prof. Jean Drèze pens a heartfelt tribute to our founder Editor-in-Chief Prof. Ashok Kotwal.
- Jean Drèze
- 05 May, 2022
- Perspectives
On the perils of embedded experiments
There is growing interest in ‘embedded experiments’, conducted by researchers and policymakers as a team. Aside from their potential scale, the main attraction of these experiments is that they se...
- Jean Drèze
- 10 March, 2022
- Perspectives
कोविड-19 संकट और खाद्य सुरक्षा
2020 में कोविड -19 के प्रसार को रोकने के लिए भारत में लगाए गए राष्ट्रीय लॉकडाउन ने लाखों लोगों को बेरोजगार कर दिया और जो लोग रोज़गार में बने रहे उनकी कमाई में तेजी से कमी आई। बहु-राज्य सर्वेक्षणों के आ...
- Jean Drèze Anmol Somanchi
- 02 जुलाई, 2021
- दृष्टिकोण