Ashwani Saith

(India) has been a professor of rural economy at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague since 1981. He is also professor of development issues at the London School of Economics. Saith studied economics in the 1960s in Delhi and Cambridge and started in 1969 as junior researcher at the University of Delhi. In his academic career spanning forty years he has written an great number of books and articles on reform and development, focussing on agriculture in various Asian countries. He publishes regularly on international and domestic migration, notably in India and China. One of his latest books, written with two other scholars, is ICT’s and Indian Social Change (2008), in which he takes a closer look on the effects of the information technology on the development of India.