Abusaleh Shariff is a Chief Economist and
heads the Human Development Division of the NCAER since 1994. Since
9th April 2005 he has also been appointed by the Cabinet Secretariat
as the Member Secretary to the Prime Minister’s High Level Committee for the
preparation of a report on the Social, economic and Educational status of the
Muslim Community of India.
Currently manages the ‘India Program of
Research in Human Development 2003-07’ a four years long empirical study jointly
undertaken with the University of Maryland and funded by the National Institute
of Health and Human Development and the World Bank both at Washington DC. The
execution of research will be integrated around the re-survey of households and
a sample survey of 40,000 rural and urban households and a series of qualitative
village studies with an inbuilt panel of around 15,000 households. The aim of
this project is to assess the status of human development, poverty conditions
and equity in India over a decade since the first survey in 1994 especially in
the context of the ongoing economic reforms.
Abusaleh did his
doctoral work at the Australian National University at Canberra, Australia; he
has a Master Degree from the Bangalore University, India and Post-doctoral
research experience from Economic Growth Centre, Yale University, USA. Earlier
he has served as Associate Professor at the Gujarat Institute of Development
Research, Ahmedabad and Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore. He
is 53 years old having over 30 years of consistent record of academic research
in the field of Development Economics, Human Development, Poverty Studies,
Demography and Health Economics, Labour and Social Security, Social Sector
Budgetary Analysis and Micro-Impact of Economic Reforms. A recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation
International Family Fellowship for research at Yale University during 1991-92,
recent accomplishments includes publication of India - Human Development
Report (1999), and a series of 16 state reports in four volumes; all
published by the Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
His consultative work on
establishing linkages with macro economies, human development and human rights
in Sudan and Maldives have been well appreciated by the United Nations System
since last 2 years. He was selected as one
of the India Today Magazine ‘faces of millennium (Economist)’ in January
2000 issue. He is current research on the status of Muslims in India is leading
to accumulation of rare data sets that are bound to be the benchmarks for future
research on human development, equity and growth in India.He has published 8
books and over 100 research articles in refereed journals and seminar
proceedings. He is a panelists on various Indian TV channels and has been
interviewed and quoted in magazines of high repute such as the Times of India,
Hindustan Times, New York Times, Financial Times of London, La Monde,
Paris, Washington Post, India Today and Outlook. He is an advisor for the Social
Science Press, Delhi. He was a member of the award selection committee of the
Global Development Network in its annual meetings held in Senegal early this
year. Has been a member of numerous official committees of the Government of
India.
He has addressed a number of professional
bodies through seminars such as at the Global Forum for Health Research in
Mexico City, World Health Organization at Geneva, Annual Global Development
Conference at Dakar, UN Headquarters in New York and the World Bank Headquarters
at the Washington DC, Harvard University, Cambridge University, Oxford
University, University of Maryland at College Park, the Free University in
Amsterdam, London School of Economics, and many other universities both in India
and abroad. Being an expert on various issues of development economic and
demography he evaluates a number of research proposals seeking funds from
various financial agencies such as the Indian Council for Social Science
Research and evaluate and asses the Ph.D theses of a number of Indian
Universities and reviews a number journal articles. He has been an advisor to a
number of graduated students in India and abroad.
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