Name: Praveen Jha
Organisation: Jawaharlal Nehru University
Title: Professor
Brief Profile:
Praveen Jha, Professor of Economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning (CESP) and Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies (CISLS), is with the School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Prior to joining the Center, he taught at St. Stephen´s College, University of Delhi and at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie. He has been a Visiting Fellow to several Institutions / Universities, including University of Bremen, Germany; Tianjin University of Finance and Economics Tianjin, China, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa and Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies (SMAIAS), Harare, Zimbabwe, International Labour Organisation, Geneva and Kassel University, Germany. He has also been associated with several research studies with the UN institutions such as the ILO, the UNICEF, the UNDP, the FAO etc. He is one of the Editors of a tri-continental journal, Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy as well as on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Indian Journal of Labour Economics. His major areas of research and teaching include: Political Economy of Development, with particular reference to Labour, Agriculture, Natural Resources, Public Finance, Education, and History of Economic Thought.
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