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Dilip Mookherjee

Boston University
dilipm@bu.edu

Dilip Mookherjee teaches economics at Boston University, where he has been serving as Director of the Institute for Economic Development since 1998. He is currently President of BREAD. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and has been recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Mahalanobis Memorial Medal of the Indian Econometric Society. His current research interests are development economics, contract and organisation theory, and the Indian economy. Current projects include effectiveness of new forms of microfinance and provision of price information to farmers; land acquisition for industrialisation and compensation of displaced farmers; effects of reforms in bankruptcy and contract enforcement laws on credit markets; land reforms; deforestation; government accountability; decentralisation; trade middlemen and effects of globalisation; and theories of education, inequality and development.

Posts by Dilip Mookherjee

प्रत्यक्ष लाभ हस्तांतरण कार्यक्रमों का विकेन्द्रीकृत लक्ष्यीकरण : एक पुनर्मूल्यांकन

'डिसेंट्रलाइज्ड गवर्नेंस : क्राफ्टिंग इफेक्टिव डेमोक्रेसीज़ अराउंड द वर्ल्ड' में दिलीप मुखर्जी कल्याण कार्यक्रमों के विकेन्द्रीकरण के खिलाफ राजनीतिक ग्राहकवाद और अभिजात वर्ग के कब्ज़े की घटनाओं सहित कुछ...

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Decentralised targeting of transfer programmes: A reassessment

Ahead of the release of ‘Decentralised Governance: Crafting Effective Democracies Around the World’, Dilip Mookherjee brings together some of the arguments against decentralisation of welfare prog...

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Automation and inequality

Public discourse around automation has seen some take a fairly alarmist view – with concerns around its impact on employment, wages, the labour share of national income, and inequality. Others take ...

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Automation and inequality

Public discourse around automation has seen some take a fairly alarmist view – with concerns around its impact on employment, wages, the labour share of national income, and inequality. Others take ...

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कृषि कानून: कृषि विपणन निजीकरण के लिए कार्य-योजना

कृषि विपणन में मुक्त बाजार प्रतिस्पर्धा को कथित रूप से बढ़ावा देने वाले कृषि कानूनों के सार पर ध्यान केंद्रित करते हुए दिलीप मुखर्जी एपीएमसी (कृषि उपज विपणन समिति) मंडियों के सुधार की आवश्यकता पर जोर ...

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Farm laws: Roadmap for agricultural marketing privatisation

Focussing on the essence of the farm laws, which purportedly seek to promote free market competition in agricultural marketing, Dilip Mookherjee emphasises the need for reform of APMC (Agricultural P...

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ड्यूएट: रोजगार सृजन को शहरी स्थानीय निकायों में विकेंद्रीकृत करना

दिलीप मुखर्जी रोजगार सृजन को शहरी स्थानीय निकायों में विकेंद्रीकृत करने के ज्यां द्रेज़ के सुझाव का समर्थन करते हैं और कहते हैं कि अभी तक शहरी स्थानीय सरकार के अशक्‍त स्वभाव के कारण शहरी नवीकरण, स्वच्छ...

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DUET: Decentralise employment generation to urban local bodies

Dilip Mookherjee supports Drèze’s suggestion to decentralise employment generation to urban local bodies, and contends that the moribund nature of urban local government is a key reason for the neg...

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Using intermediaries to deliver credit

Communities are monitoring service providers, and local governments are delivering development and welfare programmes in developing countries. This article indicates the potential value of enlarging t...

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Community networks and the growth of private enterprise in China

China has witnessed the same degree of industrialisation in three decades as Europe did in two centuries – without the preconditions that are generally believed to be necessary for economic developm...

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Do property rights exacerbate son preference?

While land reform has been shown to have benefits like increased agricultural productivity and access to credit, not much attention has been devoted to investigating its impact on gender inequality wi...

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On research in development economics

In an interview with a student at Fudan University, China, Dilip Mookherjee (Member of the I4I Editorial Board) discusses Chinese growth; India-China comparison; and research in development economics.

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