Travel pass: Pros may outweigh cons
IATA’s mobile application will allow travellers to store and manage certifications for Covid-19 tests or ...
Mahendra Dev, noted agri-economist (file pic) - THEHINDU
Mahendra Dev, a noted agri-economist, has been elevated as the Vice-Chairman, Board of Trustees of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington D.C., USA.
He is the second person from India after Isher Ahluwalia (who became chairperson) to be appointed to a high position at the IFPRI in 42 years. Dev, who is at present Director & Vice-Chancellor of the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) in Mumbai, will formally take over the new responsibility in January 2018.
The 59-year-old Dev has made significant contributions in agri development, poverty and public policy, food security, employment guarantee schemes, farm and non-farm employment. He has been on the board of IFPRI for the past four years.
The IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries. Established in 1975, IFPRI has more than 600 employees working in over 50 countries. It is a research centre of CGIAR, a worldwide partnership engaged in agricultural research for development.
Reacting to the elevation, Dev told BusinessLine over telephone that he will pursue the core goals of IFPRI and also focus on climate change, which has a wide impact on agriculture. Interventions into tackling malnuturition and providing food security in African, Latin America and the South Asian nations would be another priority.
Dev hails from Tummapudi, a small village near Tenali in Andhra Pradesh. After graduating from Loyola College, Vijayawada, he received his PhD from the Delhi School of Economics and Post-doctoral from Yale University. He was Chairman of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices, Ministry of Agriculture, and also Director of the Hyderabad-based Centre for Economic & Social Studies.
Among the notable Indians who have held board positions in the IFPRI are S.R. Sen, V.S. Vyas, I.G. Patel, Dharam Kumar, Amrita Patel and Nachiket More.
IATA’s mobile application will allow travellers to store and manage certifications for Covid-19 tests or ...
Do pilots sleep on their job?
Today’s encryption technology will be putty in the hands of those running the post-quantum world. How equipped ...
Rocketship’s Anand Rajaraman on getting pitches from places like Rameswaram and Patna
Fiscal stimulus, friendly monetary policy and firm commodity prices point towards normalcy, says the MD and ...
Price correction is a good opportunity for long-term investors to take the plunge
Q4 earnings, along with progress in controlling Covid-19 spread, will be in focus
Do keep in mind that premium may go up in case one of the members has a pre-existing condition
In an age of falling female workforce participation, worsened by the Covid-19 pandemic, policy makers and ...
Of an injured baby goat, young men on motorcycles and political tensions
It’s the birthday of Muttiah Muralitharan — the man who took a staggering 800 test wickets. What better way to ...
An ode to writer and great-uncle Ved Mehta, and Ekarat, the friend who wrote and quit on his own terms
Marketers are padded up, sponsorship deals have been struck, and campaigns are rolling out. Now let the games ...
And what marketers can possibly do to bring it back in our lives
The agency has changed form over the years but its lustre has not dimmed
Media Factory has purchased the majority stake held by Sam and Lara Balsara of Madison World in Madison Media ...
Three years after its inception, compliance with GST procedures remains a headache for exporters, job workers ...
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives of companies are altering the prospects for wooden toys of ...
Aequs Aerospace to create space for large-scale manufacture of toys at Koppal
And it has every reason to smile. Covid-19 has triggered a consumer shift towards branded products as ...
Please Email the Editor