Vamsi Vakulabharanam
Co-Director, Asian Political Economy Program and Associate Professor of Economics
Vamsi Vakulabharanam is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Previously, he taught at the University of Hyderabad (2008-14) and the City University of New York (2004-07). He was a grantee at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET, NY) between 2011 and 2014 on a project titled, 'Economic Development and Inequality: What Can the Asian Experience Teach Us?' He was a Fellow of the India China Institute of the New School (NY) between 2008 and 2010. He has worked on issues pertaining to agrarian change in the context of globalization in developing economies, agrarian cooperatives, and the relationship between economic development and inequality. His recent research focuses on inequality in the contemporary Asian economies, including India and China.
Recent Research
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Class and Space in Indian Cities
July 2024
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Caste and Space in Indian Cities
November 2023
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Mapping Religion, Space, and Economic Outcomes in Indian Cities
August 2021
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South Asian Economies in Two Imperialist Regimes Between 1950 and 2020
December 2020
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Gender and Work Patterns in Indian Cities: A Socio-Spatial Analysis
September 2020
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Intra-City Inequalities, Neighborhoods and Economic Development
February 2020
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On the Measurement of "Grayness" of Cities
June 2018
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Migration, Crises, and Social Transformation in India Since the 1990s
January 2018
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China, India and Southeast Asia: Paths to Development and State-Society Relations: Introduction
November 2016
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Growth and Distribution Regimes in India since Independence
November 2016