Keshab Das

Keshab Das is a Professor and Acting Director at the Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad, India. He received his M.Phil. in Applied Economics and Ph.D. in Economics from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, through the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum. He received the VKRV Rao Prize in Social Sciences (Economics) in 2004. He has been a visiting researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague, The Netherlands; Institute for...See more

Keshab Das is a Professor and Acting Director at the Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad, India. He received his M.Phil. in Applied Economics and Ph.D. in Economics from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, through the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum. He received the VKRV Rao Prize in Social Sciences (Economics) in 2004. He has been a visiting researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague, The Netherlands; Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM), University of Manchester, UK; University of Insubria, Varese, Italy; Institute of Developing Economies, Chiba, Japan; Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (MSH), Paris; and Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He was twice invited as a CNRS visiting faculty at Recherches en Economie, Geographie et Anthropologie sur les Recompositions et le Developpement des Suds (REGARDS), Bordeaux, France. Prof. Das has authored/edited manybooks including Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Competitiveness: Issues and Initiatives (Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation, Gandhinagar, 2011); Micro and Small Enterprises in India : The Era of Reforms (Routledge, New Delhi, 2011. Edited.); Policy and Status Paper on Cluster Development in India (Foundation for MSME Clusters, New Delhi, 2007. Co-authored.); Indian Industrial Clusters (Ashgate, Aldershot, UK, 2005. Edited.); The Growth and Transformation of Small Firms in India (Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2001. Co-authored.); and Peasant Economy and the Sugar Cooperative: a Study of the Aska Region in Orissa (CDS, Trivandrum, 1993). With about eighty published research papers, his research concerns issues in regional development, industrialization, small firm development, industrial clusters, informal sector, labour and basic infrastructure in both rural and urban areas. See less