Nitya Mohan
Clare Hall
11 Herschel Road, Cambridge CB3 9AL
Tel. 01223 693 427
Mob. 079 73470509
nm304@cam.ac.uk
Education
Sep’ 04 -
Cambridge University, United Kingdom.
PhD. Candidate
Department of Land Economy.
Sep’ 02 – Jul’ 03
Cambridge University, United Kingdom.
MPhil in Development Studies (Merit)
Micro Economics
Development Economics
Methodology of Economics
Institutions and Development
June' 00 – May' 02
Bangalore University, India.
MA Economics (First Class)
June' 97 – May' 00
Bangalore University, India.
BSc. Mathematics, Economics, Statistics (Distinction)
Honours:
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Awarded the Smuts Memorial Trust Fund, Cambridge Trusts Award and the Suzie
Paine Fellowship to undertake fieldwork towards a PhD.
Awarded Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust Award for doctoral studies.
Awarded the Shell Centenary Scholarship for postgraduate study at Cambridge.
Mount Carmel Jubilee Prize in Economics, 1999.
Teaching Experience
May ’05
Cambridge University, Faculty of Development Studies.
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Feb ’05
Cambridge University, Faculty of Economics.
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Oct ’04 – May ’05
Delivered supervisions to MPhil students tracing the impact of external pressures on
the household with special reference to women’s role in the intra-household
bargaining process.
Delivered a seminar to MPhil students on methodological issues in feminist
economics.
Cambridge University, Department of Economics.
Tutor in Statistics
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Responsibility to conduct weekly classes and monitor learning in quantitative
techniques for first year undergraduates at the Department of Economics.
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Work Experience
Dec ’03 – Aug ’04
International Labour Office (ILO),
Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour, Geneva, Switzerland.
Consultant
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Aug ’03 – Nov ’03
Prepared a paper that served to document the entire spectrum of real-world situations
that have been considered as falling under bonded labour. The paper was intended as
a think-piece on debt bondage and to ferment discussion on which of these situations
may be considered as forced labour.
Prepared a paper on the economics of prison labour that served to analyse the
dynamics behind labour from incarceration. The paper focused particularly on the
modern forms of prison labour in which prisons subcontract captive labour to private
enterprises.
International Labour Office (ILO),
International Institute for Labour Studies, Geneva, Switzerland.
Intern/ External Collaborator
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Sept '01- Aug ’02
Research on the evolving role and missions of the state in public policy as is implicit in
the “Washington Consensus”. This study consists of reconstructing the evolution of
the rhetoric and policies of the International Financial Institutions from an ILO
perspective.
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),
Human Development Resource Centre, New Delhi, India.
Consultant
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Preparation of a resource book on decentralization discussing emerging opportunities
in decentralized governance in developing nations across the world.
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Research and analysis on the impact of State Level Human Development Reports
(SHDRs) in India.
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Evolution of a best practice manual in collaboration with the Planning Commission of
India titled Successful Governance Initiatives and Best Practices: Experiences across
Indian States. The compendium serves as an analytical inventory of initiatives for
policy makers and international development partners as a tool for analysis and
action. The case studies in the manual have also been used as reference points in the
Tenth Five Year Plan of India ('02 – ’07).
Publications
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Kumar, S. and Mohan, N., Review of India Development Report, 2005, Economic and Political Weekly, April
2005.
Mohan, N., Economics of Prison Labour, Working Paper, Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour,
International Labour Office, Geneva, April 2006 (forthcoming).
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Mohan, N., Methodological Issues in Feminist Economics, Journal of Gender, Development and Change, Sage
Publications, New Delhi (forthcoming).
References
References available on request
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