Anomita Ghosh is an applied microeconomist specialising in Labour Economics and Public Economics. In her work, she combines theory, rich survey data, administrative records, data from web portals, and the latest causal inference methods to explain how individuals and firms respond to government policies aimed at promoting labour market inclusion. Her current research reflects a broader interest in topics that delve into how labour market policies interact with institutions to improve people’s lives in the face of behavioural biases among policy beneficiaries and decision-makers. She obtained her PhD from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2022 and is currently working as an Associate Fellow at the National Data innovation Centre at NCAER.
She received her Masters from Delhi School of Economics and MPhil from Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai. Prior to her PhD, she worked as an Economist at the National Stock Exchange, Mumbai, and as Research Associate at CAFRAL, Reserve Bank of India.
O. P. Sharma is a Consultant at the NCAER, specializing in primary data collection, field management, field training, coding and editing. He is currently working in the project ‘India Human Development Survey-III. Some of the other studies he has worked on include: Fertilizer Consumption and Quality Seeds, India Human Development Survey-I 2004-05, Rural Economic and Demographic Change in India, India Human Development Survey-II 2011-12 and Third Census of Handloom Weavers. Between 1988 and 2005, he headed the NCAER Field Office at Bhopal recruiting, training and supervising field staff and editing primary data
Ajay Gupta is currently working as Consultant with NDIC. Before this he worked in NCAER Account Section for about 20 years. He is having good practical exposure of various accounting function.
Gurucharan Manna joined NCAER as a Senior Adviser at NCAER. He was the Director General of CSO and NSSO in the Government of India. Dr Manna has nearly 40 years of specialized experience in sample design, estimation procedures for household and establishment surveys, and the design of survey questionnaires and related documents for fieldwork and data validation. Over the years, his responsibilities at NSSO/CSO have included the compilation of GDP estimates; conduct of the 6th Economic Census; technical coordination and supervision of the Annual Survey of Industries, Energy Statistics, and Infrastructure Statistics; compilation of the Index of Industrial Production and the Index of Service Production; finalization of survey methodologies and reports for NSSO socio-economic surveys; and compilation of foreign trade statistics. Dr Manna is currently a member of the Ministry of Statistics Standing Committee on Labour Force Statistics, the Working Groups of the NSS 75th and 76th Rounds, the NSSO’s Standing Committee on Labour Force Statistics, and the Labour Bureau’s Expert Group on the Quarterly Employment Survey.
Amaresh Dubey is currently Professor of Economics at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and Senior Consultant, National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER). He is Co-PI for the India Human Development Survey. He has earlier been Senior Fellow at NCAER, and on the faculty of North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India. He has been visiting Researcher/Professor at Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi Centre; University of Manchester; Queen’s University and University of Ulster, Belfast; University of East Anglia, Norwich; University of Maryland, College Park; and Aarhus Business School and Aarhus University, Aarhus.
His research interests include poverty assessment, human development, education and labour markets. He has published five books and monographs (three co-authored and two co-edited), including the widely acclaimed monograph on poverty, Counting the Poor: Where are the Poor in India? He has also published several articles and papers in peer-reviewed international and national journals and edited volumes. He has worked on several policy papers and project reports for Department for International Development, the World Bank, various Ministries of Government of India, and State Governments. He has served on Central and State government committees including as Member of the Special Task Force for identifying the special development needs of the Jammu Region (Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India).
He received his MA in Economics from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, and his PhD in Economics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
