Prof. Rakesh Basant is an Indian economist and professor at

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM Ahmedabad) is the world's number 1 business school, located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. The school has been accorded the status of an Institute of National Importance by Ministry of Human Resour ...

. He is the JSW Chair Professor of Innovation and Public Policy since October 2016. He was formerly a consultant with World Bank. Currently, he is the Dean, Alumni and External Relations at IIM Ahmedabad.

Education

After an M.A. in economics from Rajasthan University, Jaipur (India), Rakesh Basant obtained an M.Phil. in Applied Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (India), in 1981. He eventually completed his PhD in economics from Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, in 1990, with a thesis entitled "Technology Diffusion in an Agrarian Economy: A Study of Agro Mechanical Technology in Gujarat".

Professional life

Basant has been a professor of economics at

. He was among the 3 people considered for the position of Director for the institute. Basant is a member of Sachar Committee, wherein he has expressed views against the disregard for the Committee's terms and references. He has also delivered invited lectures in several US and European universities including Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Stanford, Berkeley, Lund and the London Business School.

Bibliography

Basant has authored many books, articles, research papers and case studies.

Books

He has co-authored the following 6 books: # ''Handbook of Muslims in India: Empirical and Policy Perspectives'', Oxford University Press; 2010 (Co-Author: Abusaleh Shariff) # ''IT Adoption in the Indian Auto Component Industry'', NASSCOM, New Delhi; 2007 (Co-Authors: Pankaj Chandra and Rajdeep Sahrawat) # ''Growth and Transformation of Small Firms in India: Policies for Small Firms in the Globalisation of the Economy'', Oxford University Press; 2001 (Co-Authors: Sebastian Morris, K. Das, K. Ramchandran and A. Koshy) # ''Non-Agricultural Employment in Rural India'', Rawat Publishers, Jaipur; 1998 (Co-Authors: B.L. Kumar and R. Parthasarathy) # ''Non-Agricultural Employment in India: Trends and Prospects'', Sage Publications, New Delhi; 1994 (Co-Author: Pravin Visaria) # ''Agro‑Mechanical Diffusion in a Backward Region'', Intermediate Technology Publications, London; 1990 (Co-Author: K.K. Subrahmanian)

References

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