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M.A. (Panjab University, Chandigarh);

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

Prof. (Dr.) Gurpreet Singh

Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Student Affairs

Email gurpreet.singh@jgu.edu.in
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ORCID ID 0000-0002-2412-0520
Key Expertise Agriculture, Labour, Rural non-farm employment, Public Finance, Political Economy of Development, Structural Transformations

M.A. (Panjab University, Chandigarh);

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

Biography

Dr. Gurpreet Singh is an Associate Professor at the Jindal School of Government and Public Policy (JSGP), O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonepat. His research focuses on public finance, the agrarian economy, rural employment, and the political economy of development in the Global South.

Prior to joining JSGP, he was associated with leading research institutions and policy think tanks. He served as Thematic Lead (Agriculture) at the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA), New Delhi, where he led major projects on public investment in Indian agriculture. He has also worked with the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) on issues related to fiscal frameworks in India’s mining sector. He has also authored research reports for organisations such as the V.V Giri National Labour Institute (VVGNLI) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) on social security, gender pay gaps, and evaluations of government programmes. As a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, while working with the Centre for International Projects Trust, he contributed to research on sustainable farm policy. He regularly collaborates with civil society organisations, policymakers, and international scholars on issues of employment, sustainable agriculture, and agrarian distress.

Dr. Singh holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, and an M.Phil. in Applied Economics from the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum. His doctoral research examined rural farm and non-farm employment in Punjab and Bihar, while his M.Phil. focused on depeasantization in Punjab.

He has published in reputed journals such as Economic and Political Weekly, Agrarian South, Social Change, Millennial Asia, Environmental Research Letters, and Agricultural Economic Research Review, and writes for media platforms on contemporary issues. 

Economic Foundations of Public Policy

Microeconomics

Political Economy of Agriculture in India

Public Finance: Data Systems and Theoretical Discourses

Theory of Consumption and Production 

ICSSR Doctoral Scholarship 2014

JNU's International Travel Grant 2016

Honorary Fellow- Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability - 2023-24

Singh, Gurpreet, Jha, Praveen, & Sharma, Nivedita (2025). Precarious Transitions: Rural Non-farm Employment in Bihar, India. Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, 14(3), 335-365.

Jha, Praveen, Sharma, Nivedita, & Singh, Gurpreet (2025). Damned and Disposable: Manual Scavengers in Contemporary India. Millennial Asia, 0(0). Online: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/09763996251365358

Singh, Gurpreet & Sharma, Nivedita (2025). The annual witch-hunt of farm stubble burning masks the real policy culprits. https://www.downtoearth.org.in/air/the-annual-witch-hunt-of-farm-stubble-burning-masks-the-real-policy-culprits Down to Earth, 24 November.

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, 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.

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.

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? Scroll.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? Scroll.in, 29 January.

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

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.

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 January.

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 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? Scroll.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 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 (2019). Promotion of Farmer Producers’ Organisations: Rhetoric versus Policy Action. CBGA Opinion, 5 November.

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, pp. 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
ORCID ID 0000-0002-2412-0520
Key Expertise Agriculture, Labour, Rural non-farm employment, Public Finance, Political Economy of Development, Structural Transformations