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J. Mohan Rao

Research Associate and Professor of Economics

Political Economy Research Institute

Department of Economics Thompson Hall Amherst, MA 01003 USA Phone: (413) 545-4808 Fax: (413) 545-2921 rao@econs.umass.edu

J. Mohan Rao was educated at Bombay, Ahmedabad and Harvard, and has previously taught at Harvard, Boston and Rome Universities. His research has concentrated on structuralist macroeconomics, agriculture-industry interactions, the microeconomics of agrarian institutions, and government interventions in agriculture. India has been the mainspring of his theoretical inspirations and the mainstay of his empirical studies. He has published over eighty articles and monographs combining theoretical, empirical and historical analyses in equal measure. His current research interests include the political economy of the state and the impact of globalization on development, inequality and poverty.

Focus: Agriculture, Development, Economy, Globalization, Poverty, United States, India, Americas, Asia

Related Resources:

• Pro-Poor Development: Distribution, Growth and Policy Interactions (Policy Library)
• Globalization and the Fiscal Autonomy of the State (Policy Library)

Language Fluency:

English

Last Updated: Jan 08, 2007