Development Outlook of Education and Migration

lt;p>Dr Basant Potnuru has a PhD in Economics of Education from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He has 17 years of experience in teaching and research. He has taught at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Rohtak and Invertis University (Bareilly). Prior to joining FORE School of Management, he has served as a Research Officer and Head of Projects Division at the India Centre for Migration (ICM), a think-tank of the Overseas Indian Affairs Division (formerly, Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs) of the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, New Delhi. While at ICM, as a Head of the India-EU Project team, he played a leading role in drafting Common Agenda on Migration and Mobility (CAMM) for the Ministry, which the Government of India signed with the European Union in 2016. He has published many research papers and policy briefs in national and international peer-reviewed journals, books and newspapers. His research interests are international migration, education, health and macroeconomic management.

Dr. Narender Thakur teaches at the Department of Economics, Bhim Rao Ambedkar College, University of Delhi, India, as an Associate Professor and completed his Post-doctoral fellowship from Indian Council for Social Science Research in Centre for Economic Studies and Planning (CESP) and Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies (ZHCES), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He did his Master of Science in Econometrics from University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. His teaching and research areas of specializations are Political Economy, Macroeconomics, Economics of Education and Migration, and Econometrics.

Dr. Perveen Kumar is serving as a professor at Shri Jai Narain Misra PG College, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. He obtained his PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has been associated with the International Migration and Diaspora Studies (IMDS) Project instituted at Jawaharlal Nehru University which inter alia brought out the India Migration Report 2009: Past, Present and the Future Outlook and India Migration Report 2010-11: The Americas. He has also been involved in several research projects carried out by the IMDS Project. He has contributed articles and research papers in various journals and chapters in edited volumes and conference proceedings. His research interests include economics of education, migration and education policy.

Chapter 1. Introduction: Education, migration and development linkages.- Chapter 2. Uneven Development and Migration: A Panel Data Regression of Economic Divergence in the Global South and North Countries.- Chapter 3. Investment in Education and Economic Growth in India: Evidence from the Last Two Decades.- Chapter 4. Failed Emigration in Punjab: An Evidence-based Study on Causes and Consequences.- Chapter 5. Footloose Indians and Stagnant Japanese: Implications of Return Migration for Home Country Development.- Chapter 6. Shifting Paradigms of Student Mobility from India to the US: A Critical Review of Historical Trends and Underlying Policies.- Chapter 7. Putting psychology back into migration research: A case of Indian student mobility.- Chapter 8. Student Migration Intention and Reflections: Indian and Chinese Students Compared.- Chapter 9. Exploring the Causes of Student Migration in India: The Case of National Capital Region.- Chapter 10. Internal Migration in India and its Impact on Children's Education and Well-being.- Chapter 11. Causes and Consequences of Labour Migration in Odisha: Evidences from A Study of Four Underdeveloped Districts.- Chapter 12. Labour Migration and MGNREGA in Kalahandi District of Odisha: Special Reference to Golamunda and Narla Blocks.