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

M.A. (University of Hyderabad)

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

 

Prof. (Dr.) Anjana Thampi

Associate Professor

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

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

M.A. (University of Hyderabad)

M.Phil., Ph.D. (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New 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 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, inequality and elite studies, gender, and labour. 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

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

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

Towards a Gendered and Green Job Guarantee Programme in India (2025), The Economic and Labour Relations Review, Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 337–350

Climate Change and Livestock Holding: Inequalities in Adaptation and the Need for Localised Policies (2025) (with S. Chakraborty and D. Dey), in Contradictions of Democracy, Development, and Inequality: A Case of India, S. Chakraborty, T. Banerjee, and S. Dasgupta (eds.), Routledge

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

Wealth Inequality: The Indian Case (2023) (with I. Anand and V. Vakulabharanam), Canadian Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 216–236

Climate Adaptation and Job Creation: Addressing the Climate and Livelihoods Crises in India, PERI Working Paper No. 587, November 2023

Wealth Elites in Delhi-NCR (with I. Anand), Working Paper No. 50, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies(2023)

Understanding Trends in Spousal Violence in India (2022) (with A. Biswas), Social Scientist, Vol. 50, No. 9-10, pp. 93-103

Women’s Workforce Participation and Spousal Violence: Insights from India (2022) (with A. Biswas), in Indian Economy and Neoliberal Globalization: Finance, Trade, Industry and Employment, P. L. Beena, Murali Kallummal, Santosh Kumar (eds.), London: Routledge, pp. 346–371

The Crisis of Extreme Inequality in India (2021) (with I. Anand), The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 64, No. 3, pp. 663-683

Economic Reforms, Undernutrition and Public Provisioning of Food (2021) In The Routledge Handbook of Post-Reform Indian Economy, Rajesh Raj S. N. and Komol Singha (eds.), Oxon and New York: Routledge, pp. 409–423

Where Does India Stand on the Sustainable Development Goals? Progress and Challenges (2019) In Social Development and the Sustainable Development Goals in South Asia, Nitya Mohan Khemka and Suraj Kumar (eds.), Oxon and New York: Routledge, pp. 49–73

Has the Economy Left the Children Behind? Nutritional Immiserization in India (2019) In Immiserizing Growth: When Growth Fails the Poor, Ravi Kanbur, Richard Sandbrook and Paul Shaffer (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 176–202

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

Recent Trends in Wealth Inequality in India (2016) (with I. Anand), Economic & Political Weekly, Vol. 51, No. 50, pp. 59–67
Email athampi@jgu.edu.in
ORCID ID 0000-0002-1808-5538
Key Expertise Climate and sustainability, labour, inequality, gender, food security and nutrition
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