Jean Drèze

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Jean Drèze (* 1959 in Belgium ) is an Indian development economist . His research on India deals with hunger, famine , equality between women and men, as well as health and education.

He often writes his work together with the Nobel laureate in economics, Amartya Sen , with whom he has published mainly on famines, the 2015 laureate Angus Deaton and Nicholas Stern . He is currently Professor at the Delhi School of Economics and Visiting Professor at Ranchi University's Faculty of Economics. He was a member of the National Advisory Council of India.

Family and education

Jean Drèze comes from a prominent Belgian academic family. His father is the economist Jacques Drèze , founder of the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics , at the Université catholique de Louvain . His brother, Xavier Drèze, was a well-known and influential marketing and consumer researcher at UCLA .

He studied mathematical economics at Essex University in the 1980s and received his doctorate from the Indian Statistical Institute in New Delhi.

Career

Drèze taught at the London School of Economics - this was his only full position - and the Delhi School of Economics in the 1980s . He was also visiting professor at the GB Pant Social Science Institute in Allahabad . Drèze has lived in India since 1979 and has been an Indian citizen since 2002.

In his work he combines methods of economics with approaches that are often used by ethnologists . An example of the latter is his work on the village of Palanpur in Uttar Pradesh with Nicholas Stern , Peter Lanjouw and others. At the time of the investigation, he lived in the village for a time under the same conditions as the local population, working in the fields and keeping animals. This research was published jointly with Naresh Sharma in the article Sharecropping in a North Indian Village ( Journal of Development Studies October 1996). The combination of field research and qualitative analysis of everyday life and poverty in combination with quantitative analysis distinguishes his specific approach in development economics.

Commitment to social justice

Drèze is known both in India and internationally for its commitment to social justice . During his research for his doctorate, he made a conscious decision to pursue a simple lifestyle and continued to do so afterwards. While working at the LSE , he lived partly as a homeless person and contributed to a movement that ensured that buildings were occupied by the homeless from 1988 onwards. He also wrote a short book about this movement and his life as a homeless person in London - No. 1 Clapham Road: the diary of a squat . During his field research he lives and works under the same conditions as the people he studies. In Delhi he and his wife Bela Bhatia had a one-room house in a jhuggi .

In addition to his academic work, he campaigned in social movements such as the peace movement , the Right to Information Campaign, and for the Right to Information Act in India, and the Right to Food campaign in India.

During the Iraq war from 1990 to 1991 he lived in a peace camp on the border between Iraq and Kuwait . His 1992 article Hunger and Poverty in Iraq, 1991 , was one of the earliest investigations into the Iraqi economy after the Gulf War and an early warning of the potential consequences of the sanctions against Iraq. Another book on Iraq - War and Peace in the Gulf - he published together with Bela Bhatia and Kathy Kelly .

Publications

Books

  • Jean Drèze, Amartya Kumar Sen : Hunger and Public Action. Oxford University Press, 1989.
  • as Jean Delarue: No.1 Clapham Road: The diary of a squat. Peaceprint, Pontefract 1991, ISBN 1-871193-04-4 .
  • Jean Dreze, Amartya Kumar Sen: The Political Economy of Hunger. 3 volumes. Oxford University Press, 1991.
  • Ehtisham Ahmad, Jean Dreze, J. Hills, Amartya Kumar Sen: Social Security in Developing Countries. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1991, ISBN 0-19-823300-0 .
  • Jean Dreze, Amartya Kumar Sen: The political Economy of Hunger: selected essays. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1995.
  • Jean Dreze, Amartya Kumar Sen: India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity. Oxford University Press, 1995.
  • Jean Dreze, Amartya Kumar Sen: Indian Development: Selected Regional Perspectives. Oxford University Press, New Delhi 1997.
  • Jean Dreze, M. Samson, S. Singh: The Dam and the Nation: Displacement and Resettlement in the Narmada Valley. Oxford University Press, New Delhi 1997, ISBN 0-19-564004-7 .
  • A. De, Jean Dreze: 1999. Public Report on Basic Education in India. The PROBE report. Oxford University Press, New Delhi 1999, ISBN 0-19-564870-6 .
  • Jean Dreze: The Economics of Famine. International Library of Critical Writings in Economics. London: Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Bela Bhatia, Jean Drèze, Kathy Kelly, Noam Chomsky: War and peace in the Gulf: testimonies of the Gulf Peace Team. Spokesman, Nottingham 2001, ISBN 0-85124-640-0 .
  • Jean Drèze, Amartya Kumar Sen: India: Development and Participation. Oxford University Press, 2002.
  • Jean Drèze, Amartya Kumar Sen: An Uncertain Glory, India and Its Contradictions. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA 2013, ISBN 978-0-691160795 .

Interviews

Book reviews

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jean Drèze - Visiting Professor, GB Pant Social Science Institute
  2. ↑ Amol Sharma: India's "Are You Poor?" Survey . In: The Wall Street Journal , June 8, 2010. 
  3. ↑ Radhika Ramaseshan: Aruna, Dreze terms for NAC return . In: The Telegraph , June 6, 2010. 
  4. ↑ Le CORE: 40 ans de bon café ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uclouvain.be
  5. ↑ UCLA Anderson Presents 2014 Faculty Awards for Teaching, Research, Leadership, Mentorship
  6. ^ Honorary Professors
  7. ↑ APRIL 23, 2007 Jean Dreze
  8. ↑ a b c The importance of being Jean Dreze. on business-standard.com.
  9. ↑ Jean Delarue: No. 1 Clapham Road: the diary of a squat. Peaceprint, Pontefract 1991, ISBN 1-871193-04-4 .
  10. ↑ Mid-day meals for schoolkids must. In: Times of India November 12, 2002.
  11. ↑ Bela Bhatia, Jean Drèze, Kathy Kelly, Noam Chomsky: War and peace in the Gulf: testimonies of the Gulf Peace Team. Spokesman, Nottingham 2001, ISBN 0-85124-640-0 .
personal data
SURNAME Drèze, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian development economist
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Belgium