Theorizing Cohesive Development (ePub)

Sunil Ray is Professor of Economics. He was previously Director of A. N. Sinha Institute of Social Studies, Patna, India; Dean of School of Social Sciences and Head of the Centre for Economic Studies and Policy at the Central University of Bihar, India. He has been a visiting fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK and Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow, Russia. His papers have appeared in various national and international journals such as Economic and Political Weekly, International Journal of Ecological Economics, Asian Survey, Saving & Development, Capitalism Nature and Socialism. He has authored several books including Protection and Industrial Growth in India (1998), Natural resources Organization and Technology Linkages (1997) and Management of Natural resources-Institutions for Sustainable Livelihood ¿(2008).

Neetu Choudhary is Adjunct Faculty with the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University (ASU), USA. She was also Fulbright Fellow, 2018-19, at ASU. Prior to that, she was Assistant Professor of Economics with the A. N. Sinha Institute of Social Studies, Patna, India. She has worked and published considerably on issues of nutrition, gender and informal workers' organizing.

Rajeev K Kumar is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the A. N. Sinha Institute of Social Studies (ANSISS), Patna, India. His research focuses on tribal development and public health issues. Prior to joining ANSISS, he was Assistant Professor at International Institute of Health Management Research, Jaipur, India, where he worked on numerous projects on public health and was also Assistant Editor of the Journal of Health Management. He is the author of one book and several research papers and articles.