Debdas Banerjee, Professor of Economics
He researched and taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge as Visiting Scholar, Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellow;
Ohio Wesleyan University (USA); Maison des Sciences de l'Homme
(Paris); Jadavpur University, Vidyasagar University, and Centre
for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.
He worked as External Collaborator of the International Labor Organisation (1984) on 'Impact of microelectronics on employment, productivity, and output in India'. and directed the Beneficiary Assessment Project (during 1989-1994) jointly commissioned by the World Bank, Swiss Development Cooperation and Government of India (on 'sericulture and silk reeling'). He also prepared the State Development Report on Industry, Services, and Power, and Perspective 2007 for the Planning Commission (Government of India), and State Planning Board (Government of West Bengal) for the Tenth Five-Year Plan of India.
Professor Banerjee authored the book: cheap cigarettes Colonialism in Action: Trade, Development and Dependence in Late Colonial India (Orient Longman, New Delhi; and, Sangam Books, London, 1999). Besides, he has written extensively on institutions and problems of industrialization in post-colonial countries in a number of edited volumes, and in journals and periodicals that include The Journal of Development Studies, Economic and Political Weekly, Indian Journal of Labor Economics, Indian Economic Journal, Indian Economic and Social History Review. His latest monograph Globalization, Industrial Restructuring, and Labour Standards is forthcoming.