Rate My Professor Gaurav Datt

Datt’s research focuses on poverty, income distribution, education, labour, and social policy in countries across Asia, the Pacific, and Africa, such as India, China, Egypt, Laos, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Timor-Leste. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and authored key World Bank poverty assessment reports, including “From Poor Areas to Poor People: China’s Evolving Poverty Reduction Agenda” (2009) and “Papua New Guinea: Poverty Assessment” (2004). Notable journal articles include “Poverty and Growth in India Over Six Decades” (2020, American Journal of Agricultural Economics), “Coal Plants, Air Pollution and Anemia: Evidence from India” (2023, Journal of Development Studies), “Progressivity and Redistributive Effects of Income Taxes: Evidence from India” (2022, Empirical Economics), and “Distribution-sensitive Multidimensional Poverty Measures” (2019, World Bank Economic Review). He also authored the book “Bargaining Power, Wages and Employment: An Analysis of Agricultural Labor Markets in India” (1996). With over 14,000 citations on Google Scholar, his work has significantly influenced development economics.