Aditi Chaubal Author

S. Bisaliah, PhD in Agriculture Economics from University of Minnesota, has been engaged in teaching, research, development work and academic administration for the last four decades. He had served as Chairman, Karnataka State Agricultural Price Commission, contributing for policy and programme formulation for agriculture development. The international working experiences of Prof Bisaliah include: Monitoring and Evaluation Expert, World Bank Forestry Project (Nigeria), thrice consultant to FAO (Rome), twice consultant to Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific, and once Consultant to World Bank-FAO. He has 170 research articles and policy reports on agriculture/rural development and capital formation in agriculture. S. Mahendra Dev, Director, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, India. Earlier he was Chairman of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices, Govt. of India, Delhi and Director, Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad (1999 to 2008). He received his PhD from the Delhi School of Economics and completed his Post-doctoral research at Yale. He has more than 100 research publications in national and international journals and has written extensively on agricultural development, poverty and public policy, food security, employment guarantee schemes, social security, farm and non-farm employment. He has been a consultant and adviser to many international organisations, such as UNDP, World Bank, International Food Policy Research Institute, ILO, FAO and ESCAP. He has been a member of several government committees including the Prime Minister's Task Force on Employment and Rangarajan Commission on Financial Inclusion, and is presently member of the expert group on poverty. Syed Saifullah, presently working in the Policy Assistance and Support Service of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, holding the position of Senior Policy Officer, joined FAO in 1983. Prior to that, he was working for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). He completed his MSc in Economics from Birkbeck College, University of London and PhD in Economics from University of Paris-Dauphine, France. His field of specialisation includes: modelling for policy analysis, providing policy assistance and advice for sustainable agriculture and rural development and international trade. Dr Syed has published several research papers and is co-author of the book: Agriculture in the Cook Islands: New Directions (1993). His current research interest is in policies for promoting investment in agriculture. He is leading a Japanese Trust Fund Project on policies for promoting investment in agriculture, which led to initiation of work for this book. Dhritisree Sarkar is a PhD student at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai. Her research topic is "Feminisation of Poverty in India". She has done her Masters in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Her research interests include development economics, agricultural economics and econometrics. Aditi Chaubal is a PhD student at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, India. Her PhD thesis deals with the macroeconomic applications of nonlinear time series models. Her areas of research include: applied time series, macroeconomics and development economics. She has an undergraduate degree in Mathematics with honours in Physics and Mathematics prior to pursuing Economics at the graduate level.