Dr. Gurpreet Singh
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Dr. Gurpreet Singh
Associate Professor
M.A. (Panjab University, Chandigarh);
M.Phil.; Ph.D. (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)
Dr. Gurpreet Singh is an associate professor of economics at Jindal School of Government and Public Policy (JSGP). He has been pursuing research on issues of agriculture, rural employment, and the political economy of development. His recent work is on the public financing and policy issues of the agriculture sector, and structural transformation of the rural economy with a focus on Punjab and Bihar. He has been working with farmers’ communities and policy makers during his current and previous assignments. Prior to his role at JSGP, he has been associated with the prestigious research institutions and policy think tanks in India and abroad. He also held a position of Post-Doctoral fellow with the University of Cambridge. He has published his research work in important journals and books in the field of economics and development studies nationally and internationally such as Social Change, Millennial Asia, Economic and Political Weekly, Environmental Research Letters, Routledge, Springer etc. He has also been writing on contemporary issues in notable magazines.
Agriculture, Rural Employment, Public Finance, Political Economy of Development
- Singh, Gurpreet and Kulkarni, Poorvi (2024). Sustainable Agriculture in Maharashtra: Can the State Budget Offset Climate Vulnerability? Economic and Political Weekly, 59(7), pp. 1-5.
- Sharma, Nivedita and Singh, Gurpreet (2024). Book Review: Ashok Pankaj, Inclusive Development Through Guaranteed Employment: India’s MGNREGA Experiences. Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, 13(1), pp.146-151.
- Singh, Gurpreet and Sharma, R. (2023). Farmers’ income and food security under contemporary policy regime in India: Insights from Punjab. In Challenges to Punjab Economy (pp. 32-49). Routledge India.
- Singh, Gurpreet and Kundu, Shridhar (2022). Understanding the Public Spending Priorities for Agriculture and Allied Sectors in Recent Years: Insights from Union and Select States, Distress in Fields Indian Agriculture after Economic Liberalization by R. Ramakumar, Tulika Books.
- Jha, Praveen, Sharma, Nivedita, Kumar, Manish, Singh, Gurpreet and Verma, Santosh (2022). Contours of Contract Farming in the Asian Region: Studies from India, in Farming and Working Under Contract – Peasants and Workers in Global Agricultural Value Systems by Praveen Jha et al., Tulika Books.
- Singh Gurpreet (2020). ‘Access to Non-farm Employment in Contemporary India: A Study of Bihar and Punjab,’Social Change: Sage Publications, 50(4), pp.532-547.
- Green AS, Dixit S, Garg KK, Sandya NR, Singh G, Vatta K, Whitbread AM, Jones MK, Singh RN and Petrie CA. (2020). An interdisciplinary framework for using archaeology, history and collective action to enhance India’s agricultural resilience and sustainability. Environmental Research Letters: (IOP publication), 15(10), pp. 1-14.
- Singh, Gurpreet and Vatta, Kamal (2019). Assessing the Economic Impacts of Farmer Producers’ Organisations (FPOs) in India: A case study in Gujarat, India. Agricultural Economic Research Review,32(conf. no.), pp. 139-148.
- Sharma, Rajeev and Singh, Gurpreet (2019). Livelihood diversification strategy and technology access in rural India: A special reference to small growers, in Agricultural Innovation Systems in Asia by Lakhwinder Singh and Anita Gill, pp. 206-229, Routledge.
- Jha, Praveen, Singh, Gurpreet and Sharma, Nivedita (2019). Modern Agricultural Practices in India: Impacts on Occupational Safely, Health and Environment,in Labor and Globalization by Ismail Karatepe, Katja Radon, and Christoph Scherrer, pp. 10- 34, Hampp Verlag: Germany.
- Singh, Gurpreet, Bhudhiraja, Parisha and Vatta, Kamal (2018). Sustainability of Farmer Producer Organisations under Agricultural Value Networks in India: A Case of Punjab and Gujarat. Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 73(3), pp.370-385.
- Vatta, K., Singh, G., Sharma, N. and Bhoi, PB. (2018). Regional dimensions and determinants of income diversification in rural India. Agricultural Economic Research Review, 31 (conf. no.), pp.33-46.
- Chakraborty, Lekha, Garg, Satakshi, Singh, Gupreet (2016). Cashing in on Mining: The Political Economy of Mining Regulations and Fiscal Policy Practices in India. WP No. 161, NIPFP Working Paper, 1-34.
- Nair, K. Naryanan and Singh, Gurpreet (2016). The Role of Technological and Institutional Changes in the Growth and Transformation of Agriculture in Punjab. Economic Transformation of a Developing Economy: The Experience of Punjab, India by Lakhwinder Singh and Nirvikar Singh, pp. 29-52, Springer.
- Sharma, Rajeev and Singh, Gurpreet (2015). Agricultural technologies access and farmer household Welfare: Evidence from India, Millennial Asia: An International journal of Asian Studies: Sage Publications,6(1), pp. 19-43.
- Singh, Gurpreet and Sharma, Rajeev (2012). Land Redistribution and Economic Well-Being? A State-wise Analysis, Man and Development, 34(2), pp.11-23.
- Singh, Gurpreet (2012), ‘Depeasantization in Punjab: Processes and Determinants’, Lambert Academic Publishing: Germany.
- Singh, Gurpreet and Sharma, Nivedita (Forthcoming). Legacy of Employment Challenges and the Response through Budgetary Provisions in India, Labour & Development.
- Singh, Gurpreet and Sharma, Nivedita (2024). The Unabated Paddy Monoculture of Punjab, India Development Review (IDR), 2 February.
- Singh, Gurpreet and Sharma, Nivedita (2024).What promises should Budget 2024-25 hold for agriculture sector? Down to Earth (DtE), 1 February.
- Sharma, Nivedita and Singh, Gurpreet (2024). The Unrelenting Struggles of Punjab’s Kinnow Farmers Amidst a Bumper Crop This Year, The Wire, 16 February.
- Sharma, Nivedita and Singh, Gurpreet (2023). What does cluster development programme mean to India’s small farmers? Down to Earth (DtE), 12 May.
- Singh, Gurpreet, Kulkarni, Poorvi and Acharya, Nilachala (2023) What do Union budgets mean for long-term agriculture development in India? Down to Earth (DtE), 22 February.
- Singh, Gurpreet and Das, Subrat (2023). How could Budget 2023-’24 help boost the agriculture sector? in, 31 January.
- Kundu, Protiva, Ambast, Shruti and Singh, Gurpreet (2023). What’s the Difference between ‘Freebies’ for the Poor and ‘Business Incentives’ for the Rich? in, 29 January.
- Verma, Santosh, Singh, Gurpreet and Acharya, Nilachala (2022). GM mustard: Need to address economic issues of using the crop. Down to Earth, 27 December.
- Sharma, Nivedita and Singh, Gurpreet (2022). Contract farming is yet to make a mark in Punjab; here is why? Down to Earth, 27 June.
- Singh, Gurpreet and Kulkarni, Poorvi (2022).What Does the Union Budget ’23 Mean for Sustainable Agriculture? Newsclick 7 February.
- Singh Gurpreet and Verma, Santosh (2022). Budget 2022: What should be theKey Focus of Budget 2022-23 for Agriculture? Outlook India, 24 January.
- Singh, Gurpreet (2021). Union Budget 2021-22: What should be the Priorities for Agriculture? Down to Earth, 27
- Singh, Gurpreet and Sharma, Rajeev (2020). Is the Agricultural Package Addressing Challenges Small Farmers Face in a Pandemic? The Wire, 22 May.
- Singh, Gurpreet and Acharya, Nilachala (2020). Covid-19: What Fiscal Steps are Needed to Ensure Food Security? Down to Earth, 25 April.
- Singh, Gurpreet and Sharma, Nivedita (2020). Covid-19 Crisis: How can India Ensure that Agricultural Markets Work in a Socially Distanced Manner? in, 12 April.
- Singh, Gurpreet (2020). Covid-19 Lockdown: Prospects for Labour Mobility and Employment. CBGA Opinion, 10 April.
- Singh, Gurpreet (2020). What Does the COVID-19 Lockdown Mean for Food Security? The Wire, 6 April.
- Singh, Gurpreet (2019). Promotion of Farmer Producers’ Organisations: Rhetoric versus Policy Action. CBGA Opinion, 5 November.