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M.A. (Panjab University, Chandigarh);

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

Dr. Gurpreet Singh

Associate Professor

Email gurpreet.singh@jgu.edu.in
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Key Expertise Agriculture, Rural Non-farm Employment, Public Finance, Social Security, Political Economy

M.A. (Panjab University, Chandigarh);

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

Biography

Dr. Gurpreet Singh is an associate professor and associate dean (international collaborations) 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.

Microeconomics 

Economic Foundations of Public Policy 

Public Finance 

Political Economy of Agriculture in India

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.

Singh, Gurpreet and Sharma, Nivedita (2022). Legacy of Employment Challenges and the Response through Budgetary Provisions in India, Labour & Development, 29(2), pp.1-16.

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.
Email gurpreet.singh@jgu.edu.in
Key Expertise Agriculture, Rural Non-farm Employment, Public Finance, Social Security, Political Economy
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