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Shoumitro Chatterjee

Johns Hopkins University
shoumitroc@jhu.edu

Shoumitro Chatterjee is an Assistant Professor of International Economics  at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. His research interests are at the intersection of development economics and international trade. One strand of his research focuses on trade and market power in the agricultural supply chains. The second strand of his research focuses on globalisation, development, and structural change.

He is also a Research Affiliate of the Center for Economic Policy Research and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining SAIS, he was a faculty member at the Pennsylvania State University and Georgetown University. In addition, he served as an Economist in the Office of the Chief Economic Advisor of India during 2015-16.

He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 2018 and was an INET-Postdoc at the University of Cambridge in 2018-19. He earned his Bachelor of Arts (with honours) in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi in 2009 and subsequently completed an MA in economics from the Delhi School of Economics in 2011. He was awarded the International Economics Research Annual Award by the EXIM bank in 2019 and was named as one of India’s economic thinkers of the next decade by ThePrint in 2024.

Posts by Shoumitro Chatterjee

नई कंपनियों की प्रवेश बाधाओं के रूप में निकास बाधाएँ : भारत का विकृत विकास पथ

भारत में कम-कुशल श्रमिकों की प्रचुरता के बावजूद, श्रम-प्रधान विनिर्माण क्षेत्र में उस तरह की तेज़ी कभी नहीं देखी गई जैसी समान आय स्तर वाले अन्य देशों में देखी गई है। इस लेख में तर्क दिया गया है कि इसक...

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Exit barriers as entry barriers: Explaining India’s odd development path

Despite an abundance of low-skilled labour, India never experienced the kind of take-off in labour-intensive manufacturing seen in other countries at similar income levels. This article argues that a ...

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कृषि कानून: प्रथम सिद्धांत और कृषि बाजार विनियमन की राजनीतिक अर्थव्यवस्था

कृषि क़ानूनों के इस संगोष्ठी का समापन करते हुए मेखला कृष्णमूर्ति और शौमित्रो चटर्जी इस आलेख में यह तर्क देते हैं कि विनियामक सुधार, अनिवार्य नीतिगत डिजाइन और कार्यान्वयन के लिए एक अधिक व्यापक और प्रासं...

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Farm laws: First principles and the political economy of agricultural market regulation

Wrapping up the Symposium on farm laws, Mekhala Krishnamurthy and Shoumitro Chatterjee contend that regulatory reforms are an important but limited part of what must be both a more comprehensive and c...

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कृषि और केंद्रीय बजट: नीतियां और संभावनाएं

इस पोस्ट में शौमित्रो चटर्जी और मेखला कृष्णमूर्ति ने कृषि बाजार में सुधार, किसानों के लिए व्यवसाय करने में आसानी, और कृषि अनुसंधान तथा विस्तार से संबंधित केंद्रीय बजट 2019 के मुख्य प्रस्तावों का विश्ल...

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Agriculture and the Union Budget: policies and prospects

In this post, Shoumitro Chatterjee and Mekhala Krishnamurthy analyse the key proposals in the Union Budget 2019 pertaining to reforms in agricultural market, ease of doing business for farmers, and ag...

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