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Professor Shyamal Chowdhury is a faculty member in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney, affiliated with the Sydney Institute of Agriculture and Sydney Southeast Asia Centre. He holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics from Bonn University, Germany, and has extensive experience with institutions like the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the World Bank. His research focuses on development interventions, particularly evaluating the impacts of technologies and infrastructures on poor households, using experimental and quasi-experimental methods.
Key research interests include seasonal migration as a poverty reduction strategy, microfinance's role in rural employment, and the economic implications of telecommunications and infrastructure investments. He has published widely on topics such as conditional cash transfers, technology adoption dynamics, and governance decentralization in Indonesia.
Recent articles highlight resilience of social transfer programs during crises, distortionary effects of conditional cash transfers, and the role of social networks in technology diffusion. His work often emphasizes second-best solutions for market imperfections and explores how infrastructure and policy interventions can improve livelihoods in developing economies.
- Grants:
- SOAR Fellowship (2020) for studying seasonal poverty and migration impacts
- Australian Development Research Awards for studies on microfinance and decentralization
- ACIAR grants for ICT-driven agricultural innovation
- Lab/Teams: Active collaborations with the Sydney Institute of Agriculture and interdisciplinary groups focusing on Southeast Asian development challenges.
