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.
Human Development
Hunger, Ethics and The Right to Food, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (2012)
he management of hunger has to look into the issues of availability, accessibility and adequacy...
To Bt or Not to Bt? Risk and Uncertainty Considerations in Technology Assessment (with Sarthak Gaurav), IGIDR Working Paper Series (2012)
The acreage under the transgenic Bt cotton seeds in India has risen significantly since its...
Conflict Resolution through Mutuality: Lessons from Bayesian Updating, Journal of Quantitative Economics (2011)
If priors are deterministic (zero or unity) and conditional evidence is uncertain (lies between zero...
Persistence of Crisis in Indian Agriculture: Need for Technological and Institutional Alternatives (with D. Narasimha Reddy), India Development Report 2011 (2011)
The crisis in Indian agriculture has two dimensions - agricultural developmental and agrarian livelihood. Some...
'People first' stressed on 20th Anniversary edition of HDR, Digital Journal (2010)
People are the real wealth, reiterates the 20th anniversary edition of Human Development Report (HDR)...
Agriculture
Synthesis of Village studies, IGIDR Proceedings/Projects Series (2012)
The Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai and the Institute for Human Development...
Access to Land: Some Issues, Land Policies for Inclusive Growth (2012)
The paper, or rather note, is a brief review of some existing literature. It underscores...
Hunger, Ethics and The Right to Food, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (2012)
he management of hunger has to look into the issues of availability, accessibility and adequacy...
To Bt or Not to Bt? Risk and Uncertainty Considerations in Technology Assessment (with Sarthak Gaurav), IGIDR Working Paper Series (2012)
The acreage under the transgenic Bt cotton seeds in India has risen significantly since its...
Policy Brief: Options and Priorities for Agriculture in India on the Eve of the Twelfth Five-Year Plan, IGIDR Proceedings/Projects Series (2011)
This is a policy brief based on a two day workshop organized by the Indira...
Poverty and Inequality
Access to Land: Some Issues, Land Policies for Inclusive Growth (2012)
The paper, or rather note, is a brief review of some existing literature. It underscores...
Hunger, Ethics and The Right to Food, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (2012)
he management of hunger has to look into the issues of availability, accessibility and adequacy...
To Bt or Not to Bt? Risk and Uncertainty Considerations in Technology Assessment (with Sarthak Gaurav), IGIDR Working Paper Series (2012)
The acreage under the transgenic Bt cotton seeds in India has risen significantly since its...
Consultation Report on Strengthening the Role of Agriculture for a Nutrition Secure India, IGIDR Proceedings/Projects Series (2011)
This is a consultation report for a one-day workshop on ‘Strengthening the Role of Agriculture...
Size-class and Returns to Cultivation in India: A Cold Case Reopened (with Sarthak Gaurav), IGIDR Working Paper Series (2011)
This paper investigates the relationship between returns to cultivation per hectare and size-class of land...
Public Health
Hunger, Ethics and The Right to Food, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (2012)
he management of hunger has to look into the issues of availability, accessibility and adequacy...
Consultation Report on Strengthening the Role of Agriculture for a Nutrition Secure India, IGIDR Proceedings/Projects Series (2011)
This is a consultation report for a one-day workshop on ‘Strengthening the Role of Agriculture...
Emergence of a new antibiotic resistant superbug, NDM-1, Digital Journal (2010)
Emergence of the superbug New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase (NDM-1) has raised a lot of discussion on...
Calorie Deprivation in Maharashtra: Analysis of NSS Data (with Lakshmikanth Hari), Nutritional Crisis in Maharashtra (2009)
This paper explores calorie deprivation in Maharashtra across regions as well as sub-groups of population...
Public Health Scenario in Orissa, Orissa’s Ecoonomic Development: Experiences and Expectations (2009)
The present paper looks into the contemporary public health scenario in Orissa. The second section...
Zero-sum and Other Game Theory
Conflict Resolution through Mutuality: Lessons from Bayesian Updating, Journal of Quantitative Economics (2011)
If priors are deterministic (zero or unity) and conditional evidence is uncertain (lies between zero...
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...
Lecture HDP
Nussbaum on Sen, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (2012)
This lecture is based on Nussbaum's paper Capabilities as Fundamental Entitlements: Sen and Social Justice,...
Sen on Rawls', Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (2012)
This is a lecture based on Sen's paper What do we want from a theory...
Some Questions: Understanding Rawls, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (2012)
There are a few questions which give three different possibilities (libertarian, utilitarian, egalitarian) as Sen...
Rawls on Justice, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (2012)
These are based on Rawls' Justice as Fairness: A Restatement
Open Book Test 1, Centemporary Issues in Human Development and Policy (2012)
This is the first test. It is open book and discussions are allowed. Send your...
Economics
Editorial: Contemporary Issues in Global Economy and Policy Analysis (with Sushanta Mallick), International Journal of Trade and Global Markets (2011)
Editorial: Emerging Issues in Developmental and Sectoral Performance - The Indian Experience (with Sushanta Mallick), International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies (2010)
The selected six papers focused on different aspects of development policy. The aim is to...
ZYX... Thoughts
Landslide victory for Nitish Kumar in Bihar, India, Digital Journal (2010)
Nitish Kumar of Janata Dal-United (JDU) who ruled the state of Bihar in coalition with...
Day 35 of farmers march coincides with Obama's visit to India, Digital Journal (2010)
Farmers marching across India to save agriculture are now in Andhra Pradesh. This peoples movement...
'People first' stressed on 20th Anniversary edition of HDR, Digital Journal (2010)
People are the real wealth, reiterates the 20th anniversary edition of Human Development Report (HDR)...
Day 28 of farmers marching across India to save agriculture, Digital Journal (2010)
The Kisan Swaraj Yatra, known as the Farmers Freedom tour, is mobilizing farmers and public...
Prospects and challenges for India on the Ayodhya Verdict, Digital Journal (2010)
A group of concerned citizens gathered to discuss the verdict of the Allahabad High Court...
Lecture HD&P 2011
Group differential measures, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (2011)
This lecture about group differential is based on ongoing research that proposes measure to capture...
Multidimensional Poverty, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (2011)
This lecture is based on the paper by Alkire and Foster, OPHI WP No.32 and...
Measuring Literacy: Promimate and Secluded Illiterates, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (2011)
This paper discussed proximate and secluded illiteracy, a concept introduced by Basu and Foster. It...
HDI: The Old, the New and the Elegant, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (2011)
This lecture critically discusses the HDI measure, the old measure of linear averaging (arithmetic mean),...
Sen on Capabalities, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (2011)
A lecture discussing capability based on Sen's Commodities and Capabilities.