Vishwa Ballabh

• 1976 BSc. Ag & A.H. with honours
• 1980 MSc. Ag in Rural Banking & Agricultural Economics, specialisation in Production & Rural Finance
• 1984 Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Agricultural Economics , Thesis Title: Determinants of Adoption of Improved Technology and Production Adjustment Mechanism in Flood Prone Areas of Uttar Pradesh, IARI, New Delhi.

*Experience Detail *

• Professor of Economics and Chairperson Centre for Rural Management, XLRI, Jamshedpur since 2006
• RBI Chair Professor, Institute of Rural Management, Anand ( Gujarat ) India 38 months
• Professor, Institute of Rural Management, Anand 48 months
  
• Associate Professor, Institute of Rural Management, Anand 60 months
  
• Assistant Professor, Institute of Rural Management, Anand 60 months
  
• serch Associate, Institute of Rural Management 24 months
  
• Post-Doctoral Fellow, International Crop Research Institute 24 months
  
• Visiting Scholar, Indian Univ.11 months

Academic Distinction (Awards and Scholarships)

• University Merit Certificate for the years 1973-74; 1974-75; 1975-76
• United Nations Fellowship (1980-82) for Ph.D at the Indian Agriculture Research Institute, New Delhi.
• D.K. Desai award for the year 1991 for the best article published in Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics-awarded by Indian Society of Agricultural Economics Land Sub-division in Semi-Arid Tropics.
• Best article (jointly written) award published in Indian Dairyman, awarded by Indian Dairy Association - Institutional Structure for Dairy Development: Indias Post-Independence Experiences.

Scholarly Books

• Jasveen Jairath and Vishwa Ballabh (eds.) 2009. Droughts and Integrated Water Resource Management in South Asia Issues, Alternatives and Futures, Sage, New Delhi.
• Vishwa Ballabh (ed.) 2008 Governance of Water: Institutional Alternatives and Political Economy, Sage, New Delhi.
• Vishwa Ballabh (ed)(2007), Institutional Alternatives and Governance of Agriculture, Academic Foundation , New Delhi.
• Vishwa Ballabh, H S Shylendra, Sukhpal Singh and Jayesh Talati (2001). Organising for Rural Development: Experience of an Action Research Project in Gujarat, India, Institute of Rural Management Anand.ations, New Delhi (forthcoming).
• Katar Singh and V Ballabh (eds) (1996). Cooperative Management of Natural Resources, New Delhi, Sage Publications.
• NC Saxena and V Ballabh (eds) (1995). Farm Forestry in South Asia, SAGE Publications, New Delhi.

Chapters in Scholarly books

• Vishwa Ballabh & Jasveen Jairath : Drought and Integrated Water Resources Management, Sage Publications, 2008.

Conference Proceedings-Refereed

• Presented a paper on Building and nurturing the tribal economy Lessons and experiences of Jharkhand and Odisha [India]at the Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea during Jul 19-23, 2014. He also visited the School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai, China during Jul 23-26, 2014.
• Development Induced Displacement Second Generation Problems. Presented at the World Forum/IAJBS-CJBE Joint Meeting at St. Louis, Missouri, USA, Jul 14-16, 2013
• Ballabh Vishwa, and Pooja Batra (August 2010) - Strategies for Developing NTFP Co-operatives, Project Report
• Vishwa Ballabh and Shikha Pandey (Key paper) Challenges of Water Governance in India: Experience of two Decades of Reform 23 Oct 2010 . National Seminar on MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT IN INDIA
  
• Jasveen Jairath and Vishwa Ballabh (2009) The Context and Problematique, in Jasveen Jairath and Vishwa Ballabh (eds) Druoght and Integrated Water resources Management in South Asia- Issues, Alternatives and Futures, New Delhi: Sage. .[D]
• Attended and presented paper at the International Conference of Agricultural Economics at Bunesairs, Argentina (With Thomas Walker and RP Singh),1988.
• Discussant and Chaired a session on International Conference of Agricultural Economics, 1994
• Attended and Chaired a session in Water Resources Policy in South Asia, Conference organised by South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies (Saciwaters) December 17-20, 2008, Colombo.
• Attended the 10th annual conference of International Leadership Association, San Francisco, USA 10-21 November, 2008.

Paper Presentations-Refereed

• Presented a paper on Socio-economic Transformation of the Tribals in Central India: Lessons and Experiences at the 75th Annual Conference of the Society held at the Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana during Nov 19-21, 2015
• VISHWA BALLABH Presented a paper on Challenges to water governance and access to clean drinking water at the Indian society of Indian agricultural Economics Conference at Amritsir during Dec 17-19, 2009.
• Vishwa Ballabh (2009) Conflict and Anarchy in Indian Natural Resources Governance: Need for a Paradigm Shift In Proceedings of the Second International Conference Biosphere as a Global Force of Change, Kyoto : Kyoto University, Mar 9-11,2009. .[D]
• Manoj T Thomas & Vishwa Ballabh : Recovery of Irrigation User Cess and Governance of Canal Systems in V. Ballabh (Ed). Governance of Water : Insntitutional Alternatives and Political Economy SAGE, New Delhi, 2008
• Vishwa Ballabh (2008) Governance of Water: Issues and Challenges, In Vishwa Ballabh (ed) Governance of Water: Institutional Challenges and Political Economy, Delhi: sage Publications. .[D]
• Hemant Kumar Padhiari & Vishwa Ballabh (2008), Inter-State Water Disputes and the Governance Challanges, In Vishwa Ballabh (ed) Governance of Water: Institutional Challanges and Political Economy , Delhi: Sage Publications. .[D]
• 15. Vishwa Ballabh, Kameshwar Choudhary, Sushil Pandey and SudhaKar Mishra (2008), Groundwater Governance in Eastern India, Vishwa Ballabh (ed) Governance of Water: Institutional Challenges and Political Economy , Delhi: Sage Publications. .[D]
• VISHWA BALLABH Presented paper Declining Collective Forest Governance in Uttarkhand at the Fourteenth international Symposium on Society and Natural Resources Management (ISSRM), Burlington USA, 9-15 Jun, 2008