Dr. Joydeep Baruah

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Dr. Joydeep Baruah

PhD
Professor & Director
joydeep.baruah@gmail.com
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Dr. Joydeep Baruah CV   

I am currently a Professor and Director of Surya Kumar Bhuyan School of Social Sciences, Krishna Kanta Handiqui State Open University, Guwahati. Earlier I was a faculty at OKD Institute of Social Change and Development, Guwahati for about two decades. My broad academic and research interests include political economy of development in general; and issues related to poverty, inequality and human development in particular. Over the years I have developed expertise in data analysis, especially in dealing with quantitative data and have conducted numerous workshops, training programmes in research methodology and data analysis across the country. I have keen interest in designing and conducting large scale surveys and I was instrumental in designing several such surveys for government of Assam, government of India and other national and international agencies like UNDP, UNICEF, FHI etc. I was the principal coordinator and lead author of the Assam Human Development Report 2014, which was published by Government of Assam, NITI Aayog and UNDP. I was one of the key persons in developing Assam’s SDG Vision and Indicator Framework in 2015-16. I am currently serving as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Indian Journal of Human Development. I was also served as one of the members of the High Level Committee constituted by the Government of Assam to revitalize the State's Economy in the aftermath of COVID 19 in 2020.

Economic History, Political Economy of Development, Regional Development, Poverty, Inequality, Human Development, Urbanisation and Agrarian Relations

25 Years of Research including about 5 years of Teaching in ODL

Life Member, Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE)
Life Member, North East Economic Association (NEEA)
Member, Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA)
Member, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES)
Member, International Political Economy Society (IPES)
 

Received a Summer Fellowship from the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford in 2015.

Served as a Visiting Fellow to the Department of Commerce, Tezpur University for a week from April 22-26, 2019