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'''The Institute of Economic Growth''' (acronym IEG),<ref name="acronym">{{cite web | url=http://www.acronymfinder.com/Institute-of-Economic-Growth-(India)-(IEG).html | title=acronym | publisher=Acronym Finder | date=2014 | accessdate=July 6, 2014}}</ref> is an autonomous body and [[civil service]] training institute under the [[Government of India]], founded in 1952 by the renowned economist, [[V. K. R. V. Rao]], for advanced research on economic and [[Social development theory|social development]]. It is widely regarded as a centre of excellence in the field.<ref name="Centre of excellence">{{cite web | url=http://www.thinktankinitiative.org/think-tanks/IEG | title=think tank | date=2013 | accessdate=July 6, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140711110557/http://www.thinktankinitiative.org/think-tanks/IEG | archive-date=July 11, 2014 | url-status=dead }}</ref> The Institute is situated on Malka Gunj road, at University Enclave, [[University of Delhi]], New Delhi, India.

== Profile ==
{{quotebox|align = right|width=30.5em|<center>'''Mandate''':<ref name="Mandate">{{cite web | url=http://www.iegindia.in/ | title=Mandate | publisher=IEG | date=November 13, 1952 | accessdate=July 6, 2014 | author=Jagjot Swarup, Head Clerk and Accountant, Delhi School of Economics | pages=13}}</ref></center>The Institute is mandated with the responsibility to:
* To serve as a post-graduate school for advanced teaching and research in Economic and allied subjects and admit students for this purpose.
* To organise specialised teaching and research in different branches of Economics.
* To undertake cooperative research work on specific research problems through the agency of its own staff and such special research fellows as may be appointed from time to time.
* To arrange for permanent and continuous investigation into specific economic problems.
* To conduct ad hoc investigation at the request of governments, organisations of employers, workers and peasants or of other bodies or persons interested in promoting a study of economic questions.
* To build up research and reference library in Economic and allied subjects and to undertake a documentation service.
* To undertake publication of research studies produced by the Institute of Economic Growth.
* To establish fruitful contacts between the Institute and distinguished foreign scholars and learned bodies abroad as well as in India.
* To accept gifts, grants, donations and endowments, and administer the same in fulfilment of the objectives mentioned above.
* To establish cooperative relationship with the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, in respect of both research and training.
* To hold refresher courses, short courses, seminars and the like on current economic problems and or on special branches of economic activity for the benefit of persons engaged either in economic work or in the teaching of economics.
* To stimulate in the staff and students of the Institute a sense of social awareness and cultural consciousness, and develop a corporate life and socially useful activity in the Institute by organising them into a joint Fraternity.
* To perform such other academic functions and undertake such other academic activities as may be approved by the Governing Body of the Institute.}}

The Institute of Economic Growth (IEG) was founded in 1952, by V. K. R. V. Rao, the renowned [[India]]n economist and became operational in 1958. Over the years, the institute has developed into one of the leading research centres in the field of social and policy matters, with a faculty consisting of 30 scientists, many of the past members such as [[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]] award-winning scholars, working in the fields of [[sociology]], [[economics]] and [[demography]].<ref name="Centre of excellence" />

The Institute's areas of research may be broadly classified into nine sections:<ref name="Centre of excellence" /><ref name="Inomics">{{cite web | url=http://inomics.com/Institute-of-Economic-Growth | title=Inomics | date=2014 | accessdate=July 7, 2014}}</ref>
* [[Agriculture]] and [[rural development]]
* [[Environmental science|Environment]] and [[resource economics]]
* [[Globalization]] and [[trade]]
* Industry, [[Labour economics|labour]] and [[Welfare economics|welfare]]
* [[Macro-economic]] policy and modeling
* Population and development
* Health policy
* [[Social change]] and [[social structure]]

The Institute also imparts training to the trainee officers of the [[Indian Economic Service]], the Indian Statistical Service, [[NABARD]], and university faculty. It also conducts talks, dissertations and seminars and has hosted many renowned scholars such as Nobel Laureates [[Elinor Ostrom]] and [[Amartya Sen]], [[Ronald Dore]], [[Yujiro Hayami]],<ref name="Yujiro Hayami">{{cite web | url=http://dgcorner.ifpri.info/2013/01/02/remembering-professor-yujiro-hayami/ | title=Yujiro Hayami | publisher=International Food Policy Research Institute | date=2013 | accessdate=July 6, 2014}}</ref> [[Jan Breman]] and [[Nicolas Stern]].<ref name="Centre of excellence" />

==Facilities==

===Campus===

IEG campus is a sprawling one, covering 7.5 acres of land and is home to the main office building, library, and residential buildings. The campus also accommodates a fitness centre, outdoor and indoor recreational facilities, seminar hall, children's park and play area for kids.

===Library===

IEG maintains a library, well stocked with 1,31,000 accessioned documents such as books, [[monographs]], workshop papers, proceedings of conferences, statistical documents in the fields of economics, [[economic development]], energy, environment, finance, [[econometrics]], mathematics, agriculture, forestry, industry, irrigation, sociology, social [[anthropology]], gender, [[demography]] and health. It also has a wide range of unaccessioned micro documents on the subjects. It is accessible to research scholars, trainee officers and students of [[Delhi School of Economics]] and University of Delhi.

The library maintains around 20,000 bound volumes of journals and subscribes to 104 paid journals, 51 exchange journals and 123 gratis journals. Another specialized collection of the library is census reports; the complete set of census reports are available in hard copy or microfilms or CD format.

===Computer Centre===

The Computer Centre in IEG is the controlling and service providing centre of the Institute in all matters related to [[information technology]]. The centre oversees the functioning of the IEG communication network with the help of advanced servers, LAN network, data repository, fast internet connection through Delhi University LAN, wi-fi systems and reprographic facilities that can accommodate 170 users at a time. The systems are supported by relevant [[office automation software]].

===Hostel===

The Institute provides hostel facility to the trainees, probationers, officers of the Indian Economic Service, the Indian Audits and Accounts Service and others undergoing training at the Institute. The facility is also available to the research staff working on various IEG projects, doctoral or post-doctoral students and guests, on an availability basis.

==Research themes==
[[Image:NewlyIndustrializedCountries.png|right|350px|thumb|The countries in green are considered to be newly industrialising nations. China and India (in dark green) are special cases.]]
[[File:Bairoch.svg|thumb|350px|right|The effect of Industrialisation shown by rising income levels since 1800. The graph shows the [[gross national product]] (at [[purchasing power parity]]) [[per capita]] between 1750 and 1900 in 1960 [[US dollars]] for [[First World]] nations (Europe, United States, Canada, Japan) and [[Third World]] nations (Asia, Africa, Latin America).<ref>{{cite book|title=Economics and World History: Myths and Paradoxes|author=Paul Bairoch|publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]]|year=1995|page=95|url=https://www.scribd.com/document/193124153/Economics-and-World-History-Myths-and-Paradoxes-Paul-Bairoch|author-link=Paul Bairoch}}</ref>]]
[[File:Urban population living in slums.svg|thumb|right|350px|Percent urban population of a country living in slums.<br/>(Source: UN Habitat 2005) {{columns-list|colwidth=18em|
{{legend|#ffb380|10-20%}}
{{legend|#ffaaaa|20-30%}}
{{legend|#ff5555|30-40%}}
{{legend|#ff0000|40-50%}}
{{legend|#d40000|50-60%}}
{{legend|#aa0000|60-70%}}
{{legend|#800000|70-80%}}
{{legend|#550000|80-90%}}
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===Agricultural and rural development===

Agriculture and rural development was a high priority theme with IEG since in inception. The projects under this theme are funder by the [[Ministry of Agriculture (India)|Ministry of Agriculture]], Government of India. The efforts are focussed on sustainable agricultural development with special attention on [[environmental economics]]. The studies revolve around the pattern of growth in agriculture, its sources, determinants and implications in the society and the non farm employment in rural and urban India. The researches have produced several books, journals and research papers which are available for reference with IEG library.

===Environmental and natural resources===

The theme was introduced for research in the Eighties and has gained importance over the time. Research activities on non-renewable resources such as coal, iron ore, petroleum and oil, irrigation and water management, solar, biogas and renewable energy technologies have gained momentum at the Institute. Simultaneously, forest related issues and industrial pollution are also treated as high priority subjects.

===Globalization and trade===

The principal are of work under this theme was [[transfer of technology]] and multinational enterprises which has now been expanded to cover trade and emerging issues of [[World Trade Organization]] (WTO) as well. The issues emerged as a fallout of [[globalization]] such as social and economic impact and cross-border trade have also been included now for further study.

===Health economics and policy===

The theme focusses on areas of [[health economics]] in the evolving national scene and is aimed at assisting policy makers with valid research data for arriving at policies and its amendments from time to time.

===Industry and development===

The theme of Industry and development was a major one, introduced at the beginning of the Institute and covered the entire range from small industry to multinational corporations with emphasis on employment, efficiency, environment and information technology. The emphasis is on contemporary issues from a policy making perspective. Small scale industries, petroleum, cotton and jute textiles, pricing policy for cement, sugar and cotton, location of sugar and fertilizer factories, and wages and productivity in major industries have all been taken up for advanced research and resultant studies have been made available to policy makers during the past years.

===Employment, labour and informal sector===

The latest addition to the theme profile is the one related to employment, labour and [[informal sector]]. IEG has conducted a large number of researches on:
* [[labour market]], employment, [[unemployment]], underemployment and low productivity employment in the informal sector
* [[standard of living]] and [[poverty]]
* social capital, population and income mobility
* urban [[slums]], basic amenities and housing
* [[urban development]]

===Macroeconomic analysis and policy===

[[File:Pottery unit in Dharavi, Mumbai.jpg|thumb|350px|right|An integrated slum dwelling and informal economy inside Dharavi of [[Mumbai]]. [[Dharavi]] slum started in 1887 with industrial and segregationist policies of the British colonial era. The slum housing, tanneries, pottery and other economy established inside and around Dharavi during the British rule of India.<ref name="Dharavi 1">{{cite book | title=Rediscovering Dharavi: stories from Asia's largest slum | publisher=Penguin | author=Sharma K. | year=2000 | pages=3–11 | isbn=978-0141000237}}</ref><ref>Pacione, Michael (2006), Mumbai, Cities, 23(3), pages 229-238</ref>]]
The theme is a preferred one at IEG and attends to the macroeconomic issues related to India and other developing countries and strive to develop macro economic models suitable for India. The researches are supported by the Development Planning Centre (DPC) and the [[Reserve Bank of India]] (RBI) Endowment Unit.

===Population and human resources===

The theme was introduced by the founder of IEG, [[V. K. R. V. Rao]], in 1972. The studies undertaken under this theme are related to qualitative and quantitative evaluation of population and the development of demographic techniques for the estimation of births, deaths, [[contraception]], couple protection and women’s issues. It also studies the impact of national policies such as National Population Policy, National Health Policy, National Policy on Older persons and policies envisaged under the [[National Rural Health Mission]] on the society.

===Social change and social structure===

The theme of Social change and social structure, or in broader terms, [[sociology]], was introduced by the Asian Centre of [[UNESCO]], which was later merged with IEG, in 1967. The main areas of research are:
* comparative study of cultural and political development
* [[communalism]] and [[ethnic conflict]]
* rural transformation
* sociology of popular culture
* emergence of professionals and other middle class elites
* dynamics of religion, [[secularism]] and modernization
* changing functions of social institutions such as the family
* contemporary media networks
* gender relations
* social policy in respect to education, urbanisation and health
* cultural patronage
* [[Social ecology (theory)|social ecology]] and environment

'''''[https://journals.sagepub.com/home/cis Contributions to Indian Sociology]'''''

''Contributions to Indian Sociology'', a very reputed journal, is based at IEG and is published in association with SAGE Publications.

==Research units==
'''Agricultural economics unit''': The unit was established in 1961 with the aid of the [[Ministry of Agriculture (India)|Ministry of Agriculture]] to undertake studies on the various aspects of Indian agriculture.

'''Development planning centre''': Established in 1994 with the financial support in the form of an endowment, from the [[Planning Commission (India)|Planning Commission]], the unit endeavours to develop macro-economic models for forecasting the changes to assist the Government of India in policy making. The unit has collaboration arrangement with the Central Planning Bureau of Netherlands and [[Erasmus University]].

'''Environment and resource economics unit''': This unit was formed in 1998, funded by World Bank, and channeled through the [[Ministry of Environment and Forests (India)|Ministry of Environment and Forests]] under a five-year program. Later, [[Ford Foundation]] provided an endowment grant to IEG for creating a Professorial Chair in Environmental and Resource Economics. The unit concentrates on research, training, advising and networking the area of environment and resource economics.

'''Health policy research unit''': The main objectives of the unit was to broaden the spectrum of research in the field of health economics. It was established in 1998 and strives to carry out research on:
* Health and poverty
* Health issues of the elderly, adolescents and women
* Health financing
* Health insurance
* Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS, Cardiovascular Diseases
* Coordination with agencies like WTO and GATS
* Adoption of health technology
* Costing and cost-effectiveness of health interventions.
* Economics of tobacco consumption and illegal drugs

The activities of the unit are funded by [[Ministry of Health and Family Welfare]]; [[World Bank]], [[WHO]], [[UNAIDS]], [[UNDP]], [[DFID]], [[AUSAID]], [[Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency|SIDA]], the [[Population Council]], the [[International AIDS Vaccine Initiative]] (IAVI), [[Center for Global Development]] (CGD), Centre for Chronic Disease Control and [[Ford Foundation]].

'''IES training section''': IES training section was started in 1968 with the principal aim of training the officers of the Indian Economic Service. IEG conducts two types of officer training programs; an induction training program for probationers of IES and the other, an in-service course for regular officers. The courses originally covered topics such as problems related to Indian economy, Economic Sociology and Institutional Aspects of Economic Development, but the course was redesigned in 2005 to include microeconomics, macroeconomics, public economics and quantitative techniques based on case studies. A brain storming section is also a part of the course.

'''Population research centre''': PRC was established in 1957 as a constituent of [[Delhi School of Economics]], on the advice of V. K. R. V. Rao, who along with Professor [[P. C. Mahalanobis]] and Professor [[D. R. Gadgil]], were members of a committee to study the development of research on population and its socio-economic impact. As per the recommendations of the committee, four ''Demographic Research Centres'' were opened of which one was hosted by IEG. This centre, in 1972, was renamed as ''Population Research Centre''. The centre focusses mainly on policy issues and planning programs.

'''RBI endowment unit''': The [[Reserve Bank of India]] granted a temporary endowment to IEG in 1979 to conduct studies on topics that is of interest to RBI such as [[money]], [[trade]], [[income]] and employment. The system was made permanent by RBI in 1991. The unit undertakes advanced research on matters related [[macroeconomics]], [[open economy]] macroeconomic issues and economic reforms with special emphasis on applied [[econometric]] and causality analysis.

'''Social change and social structure unit''': The unit is an eventual evolvement of the ''Asian Region Centre'' of [[UNESCO]] which started functioning out of IEG in 1967. When UNESCO opted out of the cooperation, the centre was downsized to form the unit, in 1974. The unit is funded by the [[Indian Council of Social Science Research]] (ICSSR).

'''VKRV Rao centre for studies in globalization''': The unit was started in 1993 with the assistance from [[Ford Foundation]] for undertaking studies on globalization, the findings of which have been brought out by IEG by way of 4 books and over 50 research papers, published in known publications such as The Journal of Development Studies, World Development, [[Journal of Development Economics]], Developing Economies, Applied Economics, Applied Economics Letters, The Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, International Business Review, Journal of Business Venturing, Transnational Corporations, World Competition, Research Policy, [[The Information Society]], Information Economics and Policy, Science Technology & Development, Indian Economic Review, and [[Economic and Political Weekly]]. Presently, the unit is involved in projects under two major themes; Information Technology (IT) Software and Hardware and Role of Knowledge Sharing in the Globalization of Indian Enterprises. The centre is also conducting collaborative
research with [[Georgetown University|Georgetown University, Washington DC]], USA, [[Institute of Developing Economies|Institute of Developing Economies, Tokyo]], Japan; [[Erasmus University Rotterdam]], The Netherlands; [[United Nations University International Institute for Software Technology|United Nations University INTECH, Maastricht]], The Netherlands and [[University of Toronto|University of Toronto, Toronto]], Canada.

==Publications==
The Institute has published many books, some of the notable ones published since 2010 are:
* {{cite book
| url = http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198076650.do
| title = Financial Access in Post-Reform India
|author1=T.A. Bhavani |author2=Prof. N.R. Bhanumurthy | year = 2012
| publisher = Oxford University Press
| isbn = 978-0-19-807665-0
}}
* {{cite book
| url = http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198085584.do
| title = Understanding Reforms: Post 1991 India – An Update
| author = T.A. Bhavani
| year = 2012
| publisher = Oxford University Press
| isbn = 978-0-19-808558-4
}}
* {{cite book
| url = http://www.sagepub.in/books/Book236113?subject=200&imprint=%22SAGE%20India%22&sortBy=defaultPubDate%20desc&fs=1
| title = Sociological Tradition: Methods and Perspectives in the Sociology of India
| author = Madan, T.N.
| year = 2010
| publisher = Sage Publication
| isbn = 9788132105756
}}
* {{cite book
| url = http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book235350
| title = India's Economy and Growth: Essays in Honour of VKRV Rao
| author = Agrawal, Pradeep
| year = 2010
| publisher = Sage Publication
| isbn = 9788132104520
}}
* {{cite book
| url = http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198085577.do
| title = Sexuality Studies
| author = Srivastava, Sanjay
| year = 2010
| publisher = Oxford University Press
| isbn = 978-0-19-808557-7
| author-link = Sanjay Srivastava (sociologist)
}}
* {{cite book
| url = http://www.indiabookstore.net/isbn/9788171887859
| title = Population, Health and Human Resources in India's Development
| author = Gulati, S.C.
| year = 2010
| publisher = Academic Foundation: Delhi
| isbn = 9788171887859
}}
* {{cite book
| url = http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199569687.do
| title = Gender and Green Governance: The Political Economy of Women's Presence Within and Beyond Community Forestry
| author = Agarwal, Bina
| year = 2010
| publisher = Oxford University Press
| isbn = 978-0-19-956968-7
}}
* {{cite book
| url = http://www.macmillaneducation.in/book/demographics-employment-and-old-age-security
| title = Demographics, Employment and Old Age Security: Emerging Trends and Challenges for South Asia
| author = Alam, Moneer, Armando Barrientos
| year = 2010
| publisher = Macmillan: India
| isbn = 9780230331679
}}

IEG has also published many other books<ref name="Books">{{cite web | url=http://www.iegindia.in/bsearchall.asp?year=2001 | title=Books | accessdate=July 6, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714224731/http://www.iegindia.in/bsearchall.asp?year=2001 | archive-date=July 14, 2014 | url-status=dead }}</ref> and research papers.<ref name="Research Papers">{{cite web | url=http://www.iegindia.in/pubrespapers.asp?year=2001 | title=Research Papers | accessdate=July 6, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714182449/http://www.iegindia.in/pubrespapers.asp?year=2001 | archive-date=July 14, 2014 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

==See also==

{{Col-begin}}
* [[Division of labour]]
* [[Deindustrialization|Deindustrialisation]]
* [[Great Divergence]]
* [[Newly industrialized country|Newly industrialised country]]
* [[Urbanization|Urbanisation]]
* [[Idea of Progress]]
{{Col-end}}

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://wikimapia.org/1442358/Institute-of-Economic-Growth on Wikimapia]
* [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz8VPgsnBQgDgx91-99Zb2A YouTube channel]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqlrD0cBhBM Health Coverage initiative on YouTube]

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