Zakir Husain
Presidency University
dzhusain@gmail.com
I am a graduate in Economics from Presidency College (1986-1989 batch). I completed my Masters in 1991, and doctoral in 2003 from Calcutta University. My doctoral research was on community resource management. SUbsequently, I shifted my research focus to areas like education, ageing and reproductive health.
The initial years of my professional life was spent in teaching - at Taki Govt College and at RAbindra Bharati University. I served for more than a year in the Sachar Committee, before shifting to Institute of Development STudies Kolkata in 2007. I worked in Population Research Centre, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, where I joined in 2010. In 2013, I shifted to Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and joined teh Humanities & Social Sciences Department.
I have published extensively in international and national journals, like Ecological Economics, Tourism MAnagement, Social Indicators Research, Sustainable Development, Economic & Political Weekly, etc. I have also comleted several research projects — some of which have resulted in policy documents.
(first author) “Contextual Factors and Common Pool Resources: Evolution of a Fishermen’s Co-operative in Calcutta” in Ecological Economics, 50(3-4), October 2004: 201-217. IMPACT FACTOR (2012): 2.855.
(co-author) “Untapped Demand for Heritage Tourism: A CVM Study of Prinsep Ghat, Calcutta” in Tourism Management, 28(1), 2007: 83-95. IMPACT FACTOR (2012): 2.572.
“Commons and Commoners: Re-examining Community in Common Pool Resources”, in Sustainable Development, Vol. 17(2), 2009: 142-154. IMPACT FACTOR (2012): 1.884.
(first author) “Gender Disparities over Educational Life Cycle in India: Do girls become more robust at higher levels?”, Social Indicators Research, Vol. 101(1), 2011: pp 37-56. IMPACT FACTOR (2012): 1.264
(first author) “Is health wealth? Results of panel data analysis”, published online on May 2011,Social Indicators Research; print version forthcoming.IMPACT FACTOR (2012) 1.264.
[a] Consultancy
1. Preparation of theme paper on “Social Justice in Kerala”, for Kerala Vision 2030, Perspective Plan prepared by National Council of Applied Economic Research for Kerala State Planning Board, Govt. of Kerala, 2013.
[b] Sponsored Research
1. World Bank funded project “CPR Institutions in West Bengal—Analysing the Environment-Economy Interaction”, implemented by Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, October 1999-March 2001. Principal Investigator: Prof. Rabindra N. Bhattacharya.
2. “Spread of Primary Education amongst Low Income Muslims”, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, January-June 2003.
3. UGC Minor Research Project “Evolution of CPR Institutions”, April 2001-March 2003.
4. “Access to Health Care Institutions in Calcutta”, with Dr. Saswata Ghosh and Dr. Bijoya Roy, funded by Institute of Development Studies Kolkata: November 2007 – April 2008.
5. “Employment Profile of Socio-Religious Communities in West Bengal”, commissioned by Dept. of Minority Affairs, Govt. of West Bengal: April – October 2008.
6. “Women, Work and Education: Women in Kolkata’s IT Sector”, with Mousumi Dutta, funded by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Germany: April – December 2008.
7. “Women, Empowerment and the State: Enhancing Capabilities through Employment-Generation Schemes”, funded by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Germany: January–December 2009.
8. “Monitoring HMIS in Delhi” assigned by Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, GOI, July 2010-April 2011.
9. “Improving HMIS quality in Uttarakhand: A study of Rudraprayag and Uttarakhand” assigned by Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, GOI, July-September 2011.
10. “HMIS quality in Uttarakhand” assigned by Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, GOI, April-June 2013.