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B. K. Pattanaik
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B. K. Pattanaik is currently a professor at the School of Extension and
My library Development Studies in the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU),
New Delhi. He is the editor of the Political Economy Journal of India. He is
My History also on the editorial board of the Journal of Economics and Development
Studies, American Research Institute for Policy Development, New York;
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Asian the Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Oyama, Japan, and the
European Journal of Education Studies, Bucharest, Romania. Professor
Pattanaik holds master’s degree in economics, MA in human resource
management and PhD in economics. He has more than 25 years of research
and teaching experience to his credit in various national-level organizations,
e.g. National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), New
Delhi; National Institute of Health and Family Welfare (NIHFW), New Delhi;
and Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development (CRRID), an
ICSSR Centre, Chandigarh. He has worked with and completed 26 projects
sponsored by various international agencies such as the World Bank, USAID,
the Ford Foundation, UNICEF, the European Commission, UNFPA, the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation as well as projects sponsored by various
government departments such as the Department of Panchayati Raj, Rural
Development, Health and Family Welfare, Water and Sanitation, Agriculture
and Planning Commission of Government of India. He has also completed
projects and studies sponsored by various departments of state
governments of Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh in different areas of
development such as drinking water and sanitation, border areas, migrant
labour, contract farming, studies on scheduled castes and scheduled tribes,
health and family welfare, panchayati raj, education, rural development and
decentralized planning, women and child welfare and preparation of district
development plans.

So far Professor Pattanaik has authored three books, co-authored four

books and edited one book. He has more than 130 publications (research
papers, articles, editorial column and book reviews) in various national and
international journals. He has also been guiding PhD students in different
areas of development studies, and six candidates have already been
awarded PhD Degrees. He has been instrumental in designing MA
programme in development studies and PG diploma programme in urban
planning and development. He has visited countries such as USA, China,
Spain and Finland and attended international seminars, conferences and
study tours. He has conducted an international conference on diaspora and
development at IGNOU in which more than 100 participants from 25
different countries participated. Professor Pattanaik has been awarded the
Distinguished Leadership Award in 1999 by the American Biographical
Institute, USA, and the International Man of the Millennium by the
International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, London.

Bibliographic information
Title Introduction to Development
Studies
Author B. K. Pattanaik
Publisher SAGE Publications, 2019
ISBN 935150820X, 9789351508205
Length 288 pages
Subjects Business &
Economics › Economics › General

Business & Economics /

Economics / General