Poulomi Dasgupta

Biography

Poulomi Dasgupta received her doctoral degree in 2012 with a dissertation titled National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and Long term Development in India. She is keenly interested in developing alternative approaches to understanding development and consequently using these approaches to evaluate the impact of various developmental programs in developing countries. In her research, she uses the capability approach to evaluate the impact of an employment generation program on development in rural India. This approach involved identifying the expansion of real freedoms of the beneficiaries of this program. In order to utilize this approach, she has also conducted village level surveys in two states in India. She has taught various economics courses at University of Missouri, Kansas City and St. Peters University, New Jersey and worked for different research institutes including the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, Kansas City and the Economic and Political Weekly Research Foundation, Mumbai.

Research Interest

She is keenly interested in developing alternative approaches to understanding development and consequently using these approaches to evaluate the impact of various developmental programs in developing countries. In her research, she uses the capability approach to evaluate the impact of an employment generation program on development in rural India.