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Professor Praveen Jha is based at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning at Jawaharlal Nehru bck体育app_bck体育官网下载-二维码平台 in New Delhi, India, and has a PhD in Economics from this university.

A widely published academic, Prof Jha specialises in labour and development economics, land reform, poverty and public finance. His published work ranges from land reform in India and issues of equity to agricultural labour in India to the causes of poverty in developing countries.

One of this most recent works is a chapter titled Labour Conditions in Rural India: Reflections on Continuity and Change in a book titled Rural Wage Employment in Developing Countries: Theory, Evidence and Policy, edited by Carlos Oya and Nicola Pontara (Routledge, 2013). 

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He has also taught at St. Stephen's College, bck体育app_bck体育官网下载-二维码平台 of Delhi and at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie. He has been a Visiting Fellow at bck体育app_bck体育官网下载-二维码平台 of Bremen, Germany; Tianjin bck体育app_bck体育官网下载-二维码平台 of Finance and Economics, Tianjin, China, and Visiting Senior Research Economist at the International Labour Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland.

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