Dr. Ashwini Deshpande is Reader (Associate Professor) at the Department of
Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India. She
was a part of the first Cambridge Advanced Programme On Rethinking Development Economics in 2001 and returned the next year as
a deputy director. She is interested in issues related to
globalization and development and her specific research areas are: the
economics of discrimination; inequality and inter-group disparities,
with a focus on caste and gender in India; international debt; and
aspects of the Chinese economy. She has published several papers in
leading economics journals and is the editor of "Boundaries of Clan
and Color: Transnational comparisons of inter-group disparity" (with
William Darity, Jr.), published by Routledge, London, 2003.
