Prof. Ashok Kotwal
Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia; Senior Fellow - Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis in Development (BREAD); Theoretical Research in Economic Development (ThRed), Associate
Prof. Kotwal retired last year as an economics professor and the founding director of the Bachelor of International Economics (BIE) program at Vancouver School of Economics, the University of British Columbia (UBC). From 1995 to 2000, he served as the Head of the Department of Economics at UBC. He has also served as the Director at Centre for India and South Asia Research (UBC) from 2003 to 2008.Currently the Editor-in-chief at Ideas for India, a portal dedicated to the development and policy issues in India. His research has focused on development issues such as the process of poverty decline, labor and credit markets in developing countries, the role of agriculture in development, the role of international trade, and rural governance. His other research interests include analysis of organizational structures in less developed countries, the interaction between agriculture and industry, economic reforms in India and their impact on poverty, political economy of developmental policy-making, social capital and rural economy, efficiency of government delivery systems, delivery of food subsidy in India, and determinants of educational quality.