Faculty

Shayequa Z Ali is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the School of Law. Her research interests are in agricultural economics, labour, poverty, inequality, gender and public policy. Prior to joining BMU, Shayequa has been a researcher at several institutions including National Council of Applied Economic Research, Centers for International Projects Trust and National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research. She has presented her research in national and international conferences and published them in journals and books. She was an ICSSR Doctoral Fellow in 2017-18 and her thesis dealt with employment and productivity in unorganised food manufacturing since the 1990s in India.

• Ali, Shayequa Zeenat. “Beyond the Polemics: Subcontracting in Unorganised Food Manufacturing in India”, Chapter 10, in S. Bathla and E. Kannan (ed) Agro and Food Processing Industry in India – Inter-sectoral Linkages, Employment, Productivity and Competitiveness, Springer Nature, Singapore, 2021.
• Bathla, Seema, and Shayequa Zeenat Ali. “Intersectoral Variation in Total Factor Productivity at the State Level- Analysing the Role of Human Capital”. Socio-Economic Changes in South Asia. Ed. Balwinder Singh Tiwana. 1st ed. Patiala: Dr. Devinder Singh, Publication Bureau, Punjabi University Patiala, 2016. 129-148. Print.
• Sidhu, Rajinder, Kamal Vatta, and Shayequa Zeenat Ali. “Growth Pattern and Economic Impacts of Wheat Productivity in Punjab Agriculture”. Economic Transformation of a Developing Economy: The Experience of Punjab. Ed. Lakhwinder Singh and Nirvikar Singh. 1st ed. Patiala: Springer Science + Business Media, Singapore, 2016. 53-75. Print. ISBN 978-981-10-0197-0.
• “Strengthening Value Chains for Fruits and Vegetables in Punjab: Alternative for Faster Growth in Agriculture”; Co-authored by Sandeep Dixit and R.S. Sidhu; Published by CIPT, New Delhi, Technical Paper No. 2, September, 2015.
• Venkatesan R., Munjal P., Sharma A., Ali S. Z., Pratap D. (2020). Estimating the economic benefits of Investment in Monsoon Mission and High Performance Computing facilities, NCAER Report, July 2020.
• Iyer I., Roy Chowdhury S., Gupta S., Ali S. Z., Dasgupta M., Chaturvedi D., Singh R. (2021). Infrastructure in India: Investment Priorities, Opportunities and Key Challenges, NCAER Approach Paper, March, 2021.
• Ghosh P K., Kane S., Kumar S., Ali S Z., Sahu S., Sanyal S. (2021) Healthcare seeking pathways in Uttar Pradesh and Odisha, India,NCAER Report, October 2021.
• Siddiqui K A., Ghosh P K., Munjal P, Ali S Z., Alam A, Baruah A, Usmani S, Pal G, Sharma A. (2020). Cluster Mapping Study of the Gems & Jewelery Sector in India, NCAER, October 2020.