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M.Phil., Ph.D. Economics (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)

M.A. Economics (University of Hyderabad)

B.A. (Hons.) Economics (University of Delhi)
 

Prof. (Dr.) Anjana Thampi

Associate Professor

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ORCID ID 0000-0002-1808-5538
Key Expertise Climate and sustainability, food security and nutrition, gender, labour, inequality and elite studies

M.Phil., Ph.D. Economics (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)

M.A. Economics (University of Hyderabad)

B.A. (Hons.) Economics (University of Delhi)
 

Biography

Dr. Anjana Thampi is Associate Professor of Economics at Jindal Global Law School. She received her PhD in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She was a Fulbright-Kalam Climate Postdoctoral Fellow at the Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a Fellow under the 2025 Cornell University STARS programme. Her areas of research include climate and sustainability, food security and nutrition, gender, labour, inequality and elite studies. Her recent and ongoing projects include climate adaptation and women’s work, gendered inequalities in wealth, and the impact of food provisioning programmes in India.

The Economics of Climate Change

Economics I

Economics II

Researcher, The Political Economy of Green and Sustainable Taxonomies, research project based at the National University of San Martín, Argentina, 2026 

Senior researcher, Wealth Inequality and Elites in the Global South, research project based at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, 2023

Member, India team, World Elite Database (ongoing collaborative research project)
 

Structural Transformation of Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STARS) Fellowship, Cornell University in partnership with World Bank, Center for Global Development, and Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, 2025–26

Fulbright-Kalam Climate Fellowship for Postdoctoral Research, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2023
 

MOOC Project on Climate Co-benefits of Urban Forestry Programmes, Oxford Policy Management India Private Limited, 2025-26

A. Thampi (2025). ‘Towards a Gendered and Green Job Guarantee Programme in India’, The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 36(2): 337–350

S. Chakraborty, D. Dey, and A. Thampi (2025). ‘Climate Change and Livestock Holding: Inequalities in Adaptation and the Need for Localised Policies’. In S. Dasgupta, S. Chakraborty, and T. Banerjee (eds.), Contradictions of Democracy, Development, and Inequality: A Case of India. Routledge, pp. 150–163.

I. Anand, A. Thampi, and V. Vakulabharanam (2025). ‘Wealth Inequality: The Indian Case’, Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 46(2): 216–236

A. Thampi (2024). ‘School Meals and Child Undernutrition in India’. In S. Damodaran, S. Gupta, S. Mitra, and D. Sinha (eds.), Development, Transformations and the Human Condition: Essays in Honour of Jayati Ghosh. Routledge, pp. 134–147.

A. Thampi (2023). ‘Climate Adaptation and Job Creation: Addressing the Climate and Livelihoods Crises in India’. PERI Working Paper No. 587.

A. Thampi and I. Anand (2023). ‘Wealth Elites in Delhi-NCR’. Southern Centre for Inequality Studies Working Paper No. 50.

A. Thampi and A. Biswas (2022). ‘Understanding Trends in Spousal Violence in India’. Social Scientist, 50(9–10): 93–103.

A. Biswas and A. Thampi (2022). ‘Women’s Workforce Participation and Spousal Violence: Insights from India’. In P. L. Beena, M. Kallummal, and S. Kumar (eds.), Indian Economy and Neoliberal Globalization: Finance, Trade, Industry and Employment. Routledge, pp. 346–371.

I. Anand and A. Thampi (2021). ‘The Crisis of Extreme Inequality in India’. The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 64: 663–683.

A. Thampi (2021). ‘Economic Reforms, Undernutrition and Public Provisioning of Food’. In R. Raj S. N. and K. Singha (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Post-Reform Indian Economy. Routledge, pp. 409–423.

A. Thampi (2019). ‘Has the Economy Left the Children Behind? Nutritional Immiserization in India’. In P. Shaffer, R. Kanbur, and R. Sandbrook (eds.), Immiserizing Growth: When Growth Fails the Poor. Oxford University Press, pp. 176–202.

A. Thampi (2019). ‘Where Does India Stand on the Sustainable Development Goals? Progress and Challenges’. In N. M. Khemka and S. Kumar (eds.), Social Development and the Sustainable Development Goals in South Asia. Routledge, pp. 49–73.

A. Thampi (2019). ‘Book review: ‘The Right to Food Debates: Social Protection for Food Security in India’, Harsh Mander, Ashwin Parulkar and Ankita Aggarwal (eds.)’, Indian Journal of Human Development, 13(1): 115–117

The Impact of the Public Distribution System in India (2017), Indian Journal of Human Development, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 353–365

A. Thampi (2016). ‘The Impact of the Public Distribution System in India’. Indian Journal of Human Development, 10(3): 353–365.

I. Anand and A. Thampi (2016). ‘Recent Trends in Wealth Inequality in India’. Economic & Political Weekly, 51(50): 59–67.
Email athampi@jgu.edu.in
ORCID ID 0000-0002-1808-5538
Key Expertise Climate and sustainability, food security and nutrition, gender, labour, inequality and elite studies
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