Indranil De Editor & Author

Dr. Indranil De is an Associate Professor in Social Sciences and Economics in Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), India. His areas of interest are institutional economics, political economy, public policy, basic service delivery, housing and gender. He teaches Collective Actions and Cooperation, Development Theory, Public Policy Analysis, Applied Econometrics and Social Cost Benefit Analysis. He is also a member of Member of Expert Committee, National CSR Award 2018 and 2019, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India. 

Dr. Shyam Singh is an Associate Professor in Social Sciences at IRMA. His research interests include governance and development, social networks, monitoring and evaluation, and CSR. Before joining IRMA, he was associated with Janaagraha, Bangalore, Samarthan, Bhopal, and Oxfam India, New Delhi. He has completed research projects for UNICEF, World Bank, the Government of India, and the Government of Gujarat. He teaches Rural Society and Polity, Monitoring and Evaluation, and Social Network Analysis at IRMA. He is also a member of Member of Expert Committee, National CSR Award 2018 and 2019, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India.

 Dr. Shilpi Smita Panda is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Centre of Excellence in Studies on Tribal and Marginalized Communities at Utkal University Bhubaneswar, India funded by the World Bank. She has also served as a Research Assistant in the Social Norms and Knowledge Hub Project in Institute of Rural Management Anand, Gujarat, India funded by UNICEF. She has done her Ph.D. in Social Sciences from National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha, India. Her research interests include gender studies, development studies and Studies related to migration and rural livelihoods.