Ashok Pankaj

Ashok K. Pankaj (Ph.D., LL.B.) is senior fellow at Institute for Human Development, Delhi. His area of interest and research is political economy of development in India and South Asia with a focus on public policies, institutions of governance and development, interface between development and democracy and society and polity. He has completed eight major projects on various issues of socio-economic development sponsored by UNDP, UNIFEM, UN Women, ICSSR, Ministry of Rural Development, Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Ministry of Minority Affairs (Government of India), Government of Bihar and World Bank, and is presently leading two major evaluation projects, sponsored by the Planning Commission of India. He has contributed about 60 articles including reviews and chapters in books. His articles and reviews have appeared in reputed professional journals like South Asia Research (SAGE, London), Contribution to Indian Sociology (SAGE, Delhi), Journal of Asian and African Studies (SAGE, Boston), Economic and Political Weekly (Mumbai), International Studies (SAGE, Delhi), Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics (Routledge, Oxfordshire), Social Scientist (Delhi) etc.