Introduction
The Institute of Economic Growth (IEG) is an autonomous, multidisciplinary Centre for advanced research and training. Widely recognized as a Centre of excellence, it is one of India 's leading academic institutions in the fields of economic and social development. Established in 1952, its faculty of about 23 social scientists (economists, demographers and sociologists) and a large body of supporting research staff focus on emerging and often cutting-edge areas of social and policy concern. Many past and current faculty members are internationally renowned and award-winning scholars.
IEG's research falls into
nine broad themes: Agriculture and rural development, environment and resource
economics; globalization and trade; industry, labour and welfare;
macro-economic policy and modeling; population and development; health policy;
and social change and social structure. In addition, the Institute organizes
regular training programmes for the trainee officers of the Indian Economic
Service and occasional courses for officers of the Indian Statistical Service,
NABARD, and university teachers. The Institute's faculty members also supervise
doctoral students from India and abroad, provide regular policy inputs, and
engage with government, civil society and international organisations. Over the
years IEG has hosted many renowned international scholars, including Nobel
Laureates Elinor Ostrom and Amartya Sen, and others such as Ronald Dore, Yujiro
Hayami, Jan Breman and Nicolas Stern.
Founded in 1952 by the
eminent economist V.K.R.V. Rao, IEG's faculty, Board of Directors and Trustees
have included a wide range of distinguished intellectuals and policy makers,
including V.T. Krishnamachari, C.D. Deshmukh, P.N. Dhar, A.M. Khusro, Dharm
Narain, C. Rangarajan, C.H. Hanumantha Rao, Nitin Desai, T.N. Madan, P.C. Joshi
and Bimal Jalan. Several former faculty members have served as members of the
Planning Commission or on the Prime Minister's Panel of Economic Advisors.
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has had a long association with the
Institute, initially as Chairman of the Board (1972-1982) and since 1992 as
President of the IEG Society. Mr. Tarun
Das is the Chairman and Prof. Ajit Mishra is the Director of the Institute.
IEG
Vision
The Institute of Economic
Growth is a social science research and training centre of excellence, founded
by Professor V.K.R.V. Rao in 1952. It was set up to promote multidisciplinary
research on issues relevant to India’s economic growth and social development.
Since its inception, the Institute has aspired to produce research that is
theoretically sound, methodologically rigorous by international standards, and
relevant for policy. With this ambition, our faculty members have kept up with
theoretical and methodological developments in their fields, and with changes
in the ground realities of the economy and society. They have to their credit a
wide range of publications, including articles in international academic
journals and books published by leading national and international publishers.
While research remains the Institute’s primary activity, the faculty also
guides Ph.D and M.Phil students from India and abroad, trains civil servants,
particularly the Indian Economic Service officers, on economic and social
policies, and provides policy advice to the Government of India.
When the Institute was
founded, India had recently attained Independence. At that time, economic
planning and social welfare formed the fulcrum of the country’s development
strategy.
The Institute’s research
profile reflected national concerns, and themes such as agricultural and rural
development, industry, trade, finance, monetary economics, population,
urbanization, macroeconomics, and social change received prime attention. Since
the 1980s, and especially since the 1990s, however, there have been notable
changes in the country’s economic strategy. While India still remains a mixed
economy, with a focus on both State and market, the introduction of economic
reforms has shifted the balance from largely State-led growth to a growing
emphasis on the private sector and an open economy. Liberalisation and
globalisation have affected not only the economy, but also the society and
polity. Existing development paradigms are being challenged by new concerns
such as environmental degradation and gender inequality. These call for new
theoretical and methodological innovativeness.
Responding to these
contemporary challenges, the research agenda of the Institute faculty has
broadened to include emerging issues such as liberalisation and globalisation
with a human face, technological change, environment and natural resources,
gender inequality, the well-being of vulnerable sections, regional disparity,
citizenship and governance, social pathologies, health economics, ageing, and
social capital. Hence, while the Institute’s faculty continues to pursue its
traditional specializations, it has also widened its scope. Moreover, it has
sought to approach even the traditional fields with a fresh perspective, informed
by new theoretical and methodological approaches. What remains unchanged is our
continuing stress on academic excellence and policy relevance
Library
Access/ users IEG Lib
The library and its
facilities are available to the faculty members, Indian Economics services
Probationers and other officer trainees of the Institute, for example, officer
trainees from NABARD, Indian Audit and Accounts, Environmental Economics,
faculty, Ph.D. scholars and students of Delhi School of Economics, University
of Delhi and other Universities in India, research scholars, alumni members and
others who are interested in accessing information.
Working hours of library
The library is open from
9.00 A.M. to 5.30 P.M. from Monday to Friday for users. It remains closed on Saturday,
Sunday and other holidays.
Collection
The library of the
institute has a specialised collection on social sciences with an emphasis on
development and planning. It caters mainly to the needs of research and
training undertaken at the institute. Apart from routine and trade publications
procurement, the library makes a special effort to procuring research
publications, Micro-documents, serials and official publications brought out by
research organisations, corporate bodies, international organisations and their
allied agencies, universities and the Central and the State government,
departments and their research and their evaluation cells.
Books
As on date the library
had about 1,31,000 accessioned documents including books, monographs, workshop
papers, proceedings of conferences, statistical serials in the field of
economics, economic development, energy, environment, finance, econometrics,
mathematics, agriculture, forestry, industry, irrigation, sociology, social
anthropology, gender, demography, health etc. An equal number of unaccessioned
Micro Documents comprising of Institutional Research Reports, Discussion,
Occasional and Working Papers are also held. The library also collects on a
fairly wide basis, the Annual Reports of Companies, of Departments of Central
and State Government and other corporate bodies.
Journals
In addition to a stock of
20,000 back volumes of journals of 2,000 titles, the library subscribes to 104
journals, receive 51 journals in exchange and receive 123 journals on gratis.
The library exchanges the Institute's research output and publications
(including its journal, Contributions to Indian Sociology) with similar
institutions in India and abroad. In total, the library receives 278 journals.
Serials
Since data publications
are important for research, the library specialises in collecting statistical
serials, mostly annually. There are around 3000 serial titles containing
statistical information on India and its states and other countries.
Government Publications
Annual Reports
Research Papers
Census Reports
The library has a
complete set of census reports commencing from 1872. This section maintains the
census data of India for the period 1872 to 1951 in microfiche format and from
1951 to 2001 in hard copy. 1991 & 2001 Census are available in floppy and
CD at the IEG also.
E-resources
JSTOR access in IEG
The library is
subscribing JSTOR. It is an electronic device of more than 400+ journals spread
across 13 academic disciplines with full text from starting issue of the
journal.
www.jstor.org
INDIASTAT
www.indiastat.com
Capital market
CD-ROM
The Library has about 200
CD-ROMs and 8 computers with CD Drive.
S. No. CD
Services
Institute of Economic
Growth Library provides the following services:
Online Information Retrieval
and Dissemination of Information through:
Internet
E-mail
CD-ROM Databases
Selective Dissemination
of Information
Current Awareness Service
(Arrivals this Week)
Bibliographic and
Documentation Service
Indexing of Periodical
Literature
Inter-library loan
Networking System
Reference Service
Circulation Service
Reprographic service
Networking
DELNET
Computer centre
IEG’s computer unit
caters to about 170 users, including faculty members, supporting research
staff, members of the administration, doctoral students, IES probationary
officers and affiliated visitors. We have a large local area network (LAN)
serviced by the HP BL460c G7 blade server. IEG also acquired a high-speed fiber
link of the National Knowledge Network (NKN) over the University of Delhi’s LAN
system. It is also being used to access 100+ e-resources (journals, online
databases, etc.). IEG also acquired additional 10 MBPS 1:1 internet link to
manage internet failure and to provide un-interrupted internet services in the
IEG’s offices, hostel and the staff quarters which are also interconnected
using wire and unified Wi-Fi systems. CCTV camera systems were fixed for
security on the campus and a biometric attendance system was installed for
effective supervision of personnel. The IES training room of the Institute is
installed with modern training amenities such as Digital Podium, wireless PA
system.
Faculty members and
senior administrative staff are provided with PCs in their offices, connected
with individual duplex/MFP laser printers. They are also provided laptops.
Heavy-duty printing services are deployed in the computer unit, library and the
accounts section of the Institute. Modern systems such as Digital Podium
facilitate training programmes. IEG’s software library has advanced application
and econometric packages which cover MS Office, Adobe Acrobat Eviews 9.1,
Limdep 7.0, Stata 14.0, Stella 5.0, Vensim 5.5 (DSS), GAMS 2.5, MFIT 5.0,
MLwin, RATS 6.0, ArcGIS 10.1, etc. Network and online database such as Ace
Equity, Prowess are also available.
The feature-rich IEG
website uses CMS which allows the faculty, research units and administration to
easily update their information. It also incorporates an online job portal,
events manager and off-campus faculty login. The Audio-Visual Room of the
Institute is equipped with VHF audio conferencing and can be used for web
conferencing, live interviews, live presentations and demo programmes.
IEG is also recognised
for its growing presence on social networking sites including Twitter, YouTube
and Facebook. We have registered nearly 1,000+ followers on these accounts and
15,000+ connects on YouTube. Web-analytics reveal that Institute events have
been watched on YouTube in 50+ countries across the world.
Fellowship
information
The Institute hosts
several fellowship programmes.
Sir Ratan Tata (SRT)
Fellowships:
The Sir Ratan Tata
Fellowship programme was instituted at the IEG in 2000 to provide Indian
research scholars an opportunity to undertake post-doctoral research. One of
the fellowships is at the Assistant Professor level (for two years and
extendable for a third year) and another at the Associate Professor/Professor
level (for one year). Since its inception, the Institute has hosted 12 Fellows.
During their tenure, many Fellows have written papers and organised workshops;
some have prepared and published book manuscripts.
ICSSR Doctoral
Fellowships:
IEG offers four Ph.D.
Fellowships every year in economics and sociology, instituted by the Indian
Council of Social Science Research.
Publications
Books
Chapters in Books
Published Research Papers
Policy Briefs
Faculty Working Papers
Books Edited
Chapters in Books
Published Research Papers
Policy Briefs
Faculty Working Papers
Faculty work-in-progress
Annual Reports
Distinguished Lecture
Series
Serial Publications
Monthly Monitor
Contributions to Indian
Sociology: Occasional Studies
DSE-IEG Macroeconomic
Outlook Report
References
http://iegindia.org/
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