Dr. Gerry Rodgers
Dr. Gerry Rodgers
Visiting Professor
Visiting Professor at the Institute for Human Development, New Delhi and visiting researcher at the Federal University of Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil. Formerly Director of the International Institute for Labour Studies, Geneva, and held a variety of other research and management positions with the International Labour Organization, including Director, Policy Integration; Technical Director, World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization; and Director, Multidisciplinary Technical Team, Santiago de Chile. Has had a long association with Indian academic institutions, especially in Delhi and Patna, and was Conference President, 61st Conference of the Indian Society of Labour Economics, Patiala, December 2019. Research interests mainly concerned with poverty, inequality, labour and employment in low and medium-income countries, particularly in India and Latin America. Current and recent research projects include studies of development in Bihar, a comparison of the development paths of India and Brazil, and a study of unequal development and labour in Northeast Brazil. Recent books include Unequal development and labour in Brazil (with Roberto Véras de Oliveira and Janine Rodgers. London, Routledge, 2023) and Growth and inequality: The contrasting trajectories of India and Brazil (with Alexandre de Freitas Barbosa and Maria Cristina Cacciamali. New Delhi, Cambridge University Press, 2017); The changing village in India: Insights from longitudinal research (co-editor with Himanshu and Praveen Jha, and part author. New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2016). Recent articles include “A time of darkness? The pursuit of collective well-being in an unequal world” in Sumangala Damodaran et al. (eds). Development, transformations and the human condition: A volume in honour of Prof. Jayati Ghosh. Routledge India, forthcoming; “Changing perspectives on poverty and inequality: the contributions of the International Labour Review”, International Labour Review, Centenary Collection (2021), No. 7; and “Labour and employment in India: A fifty-year perspective”, in Indian Journal of Labour Economics, vol. 63, no. 1, 2020.