Srijit Mishra researches on development related issues and teaches a course on Human Development and Policy at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai. Some of his recent works are on farmers' suicides, a result of the larger agrarian crisis in India, and on a refinement of the Human Development Index. Earlier he worked at Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE), Pune and Nabakrushna Choudhury Centre for Development Studies (NCDS), Bhubaneswar. His M.Phil./Ph.D. on tribal agrarian economies were done at the Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Thiruvananthapuram and awarded by the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. He is married to Nandini and they both have been blessed with a daughter, Nerika.
Agrarian Crisis and Farmers' Suicides in India
Agrarian Crisis and Farmer's Suicides in India, Environmental Degradation and Food Crisis - Lessons for India, Greenpeace India (2009)
The larger agrarian crisis has two dimensions. On the one hand, there is a livelihood...
Poverty and Agrarian Distress in Orissa, IGIDR Working Paper Series (2009)
The relatively lower reduction of poverty in Orissa, 0.2 percentage points per annum from 48.6%...
Risks, Farmers’ Suicides and Agrarian Crisis in India: Is There a Way Out?, Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics (2008)
Poor returns to cultivation and absence of non-farm opportunities are indicative of the larger socio-economic...
Agrarian Scenario in Post-reform India: A Story of Distress, Despair and Death, Orissa Economic Journal (2007)
Indian agriculture today is under a large crisis. An average farmer household’s returns from cultivation...
Farmers' Suicides in Maharashtra, Economic and Political Weekly (2006)
An agrarian crisis has precipitated a spate of suicides in Maharashtra. The suicide mortality rate...
Human Development
Counter Conflict through Mutuality: Lessons from Bayesian Updating, IGIDR Proceedings/Project Reports Series (2009)
Using Bayesian updating to deterministic priors, persistence of fundamentalist belief can be explained. Under such...
Gender Development Index: Two Corrections (with Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan and Priya Rampal), IGIDR Proceedings/Project Repoets Series (2009)
The paper suggests two corrections in the measure of Gender Development Index (GDI). On the...
On A Class of Human Development Index Measures (with Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan), IGIDR Working Paper No. WP-2008-020 (2008)
Using Minkowski distance function we propose a class of Human Development Index measures. Special cases...
On Measuring Group-differentials Displayed by Socio-economic Indicators: An Extension, Applied Economics Letters (2008)
In a recent paper, Mishra and Subramanian (2006) propose a measure to explain group-differential which...
On Measuring Group Differential: Some Further Results (with Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan), IGIDR Working Paper No. WP-2008-002 (2008)
This paper proposes a measure to explain group-differential for failure indicators. The measure satisfies the...
Lecture HD&P 2009
Poverty and Inequality
Agrarian Crisis and Farmer's Suicides in India, Environmental Degradation and Food Crisis - Lessons for India, Greenpeace India (2009)
The larger agrarian crisis has two dimensions. On the one hand, there is a livelihood...
Poverty and Agrarian Distress in Orissa, IGIDR Working Paper Series (2009)
The relatively lower reduction of poverty in Orissa, 0.2 percentage points per annum from 48.6%...
Socioeconomic Inequities in Maharashtra, A Report on Health Inequities in Maharashtra (2008)
Theis chapter analyses socioeconomic inequities in the state of Maharashtra looking at regions as well...
Evaluation of Food-for-Work (FFW) Component of Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana (SGRY) in Selected Districts of Maharashtra (with Manoj Panda, Sangita Kamdar, and Mallikarjun Tondare), IGIDR Proceedings and Projects No. PP-054 (2005)
The present study is an evaluation of the food-for-work component of Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana...
Poverty Reduction Strategy as Implementation of the Right to Development in Maharashtra (with Manon Panda), IGIDR Proceedings and Projects No. PP-053 (2005)
Despite laudable goals on poverty reduction, achievements on the ground have remained far below the...
Public Health
Socioeconomic Inequities in Maharashtra, A Report on Health Inequities in Maharashtra (2008)
Theis chapter analyses socioeconomic inequities in the state of Maharashtra looking at regions as well...
Farmers' Suicides in Maharashtra, Economic and Political Weekly (2006)
An agrarian crisis has precipitated a spate of suicides in Maharashtra. The suicide mortality rate...
Suicide Mortality Rates across States of India, 1975-2001: A Statistical Note, Economic and Political Weekly (2006)
Age-adjusted (5+ years) suicide mortality rate (per 100000 persons) has been calculated by sex across...
Public Health Scenario in India, India Development Report 2004-05 (2005)
This chapter evaluates some aspects of the contemporary public health scenario in India. First, with...
Secluded and Proximate Illiterates among Couples: Implications on Health of Women and Children (with Udaya Shankar Mishra), Economic and Political Weekly (2004)
This paper uses NFHS-2 (1998-99) data to explore certain linkages between literacy status of a...
Zero-sum and Other Game Theory
Counter Conflict through Mutuality: Lessons from Bayesian Updating, IGIDR Proceedings/Project Reports Series (2009)
Using Bayesian updating to deterministic priors, persistence of fundamentalist belief can be explained. Under such...
Understanding Fundamentalist Belief Through Bayesian Updating, IGIDR Working Paper No. WP-2003-002 (2003)
Using Bayesian updating to deterministic priors persistence of fundamentalist belief like those in the mind...
Strategic Interdependence and Passive Smoking, GIPE Working Paper No. WP 1 (2002)
An ex post analysis shows that avoidance, as against associating, by smoker and non-smoker when...
On the Probability of Existence of Pure Equilibria in Matrix Games (with T. K. Kumar), Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (1997)
In a recent paper (Ref. 1), Papavassilopoulos obtained results on the probability of the existence...
Probability of Obtaining a Pure Strategy Equilibrium in Matrix Games with Random Pay-offs (with T. Krishna Kumar), Game Theoretical Applications to Economics and Operations Research (1997)
If the pay-offs in an mXn zero-sum matrix game are drawn randomly from a finite...
ZYX... Thoughts
Misplaced Emphasis, blogspot.com (2008)
Wondering thoughts on contemporary social, economic and political issues