Sanjay Reddy
Affiliation
- Faculty Fellow, Department of Economics, Barnard College
Research
Sanjay G. Reddy is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Barnard
College at Columbia University and also teaches in the School of
International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, where he
teaches courses on world poverty and on development economics. His areas of work include development economics, international economics and economics and philosophy. He possesses a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, an M.Phil. in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge, and an A.B. in Applied Mathematics with Physics from Harvard University. He has held fellowships from the Center for Ethics and the Professions and the Center for Population and Development Studies at Harvard University and the Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
Sanjay has conducted extensive research for development agencies and international institutions, including the G-24, ILO, Oxfam, UNDESA, UNICEF, UNDP, UNU-WIDER, UNRISD, and the World Bank and his research has been supported by the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Institute. He has been a member of the advisory panel of the UNDP's Human Development Report, and is presently a member of the UN Statistics Division's Steering Committee on Poverty Statistics. He has conducted fieldwork, published and presented widely, and is a member of the editorial advisory boards of Development, Ethics and International Affairs, and the European Journal of Development Research. He is a citizen of India.
Sanjay is presently working extensively on global poverty and inequality estimates, capability-based inter-country poverty comparisons, and the theory of economic and social measurement generally (including index number analysis).
Selected Work
- Â"How Not to Count the Poor,Â" unpublished working paper (with Thomas Pogge, Columbia University), available on www.socialanalysis.org, to be published in forthcoming volume edited by Joseph Stiglitz, Sudhir Anand and Paul Segal.
- Â"Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: WhatÂ's Wrong with Existing Analytical Models?Â" (with Antoine Heuty), unpublished working paper, available on http://www.millenniumdevelopmentgoals.org
- "Just Linkage: International Trade and Labor Standards" (with Christian Barry) Columbia University Press, forthcoming, 2007
- Â"Counting the Poor: the Truth about World Poverty Statistics,Â" The Socialist Register (London: Merlin, 2006)
- Â"Peer and Partner Review: A Practical Approach to Achieving the Millennium Development GoalsÂ" (with Antoine Heuty), in Journal of Human Development, Vol. 6 no. 3, Nov. 2005.
- Â"A Rising Tide of Demands: India's Public Institutions and the Democratic Revolution,Â" in Public Institutions in India : Performance and Design, ed. Devesh Kapur and Pratap Bhanu Mehta. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Â"A Capability-Based Approach to Estimating Global PovertyÂ" in Â"Dollar a Day: How Much Does it Say?Â" special issue of In Focus, International Poverty Centre, Brasilia, 2004.
Additional working papers and publications can be found at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=514320
See Also
- Working papers by Sanjay Reddy
