Poulomi Dasgupta is a Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and an Assistant Professor at Franklin University Switzerland in the department of Economics and Finance. She is keenly interested in developing alternative approaches to understanding economic development and using these approaches to evaluate the impact of various developmental programs in developing countries. Her areas of interest are labour and unemployment in developing economies, issues of environmental sustainability and development, and rural development. She has presented her work on topics like labour markets in colonial India, public employment, and hunger at conferences including the International Initiative to Promote Political Economy, Association for Institutional Thought (AFIT), and European Labour History Network. She has also contributed to a book chapter in The Job Guarantee: Towards Full Employment. She received her doctoral degree in 2012 with a dissertation titled National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and Long term Development in India under Mathew Forstater at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. She is also an APORDE alumnus.
Poulomi Dasgupta has taught various economics courses at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and St. Peters University, New Jersey. She leads academic travel courses to India and Bhutan on topics of sustainability and development. She has worked for different research institutes including the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, Kansas City and the Economic and Political Weekly Research Foundation, Mumbai.
