Devesh Kapur

5.8k total citations
73 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Devesh Kapur is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Devesh Kapur has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 24 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 19 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Devesh Kapur's work include International Development and Aid (13 papers), Migration and Labor Dynamics (11 papers) and Social and Economic Development in India (8 papers). Devesh Kapur is often cited by papers focused on International Development and Aid (13 papers), Migration and Labor Dynamics (11 papers) and Social and Economic Development in India (8 papers). Devesh Kapur collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Devesh Kapur's co-authors include John McHale, Ajay Agrawal, Richard N. Cooper, Alexander Oettl, Ravi Ramamurti, John P. Lewis, Richard Webb, Lester C. Thurow, Aditya Dasgupta and Yoshiko M. Herrera and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Political Science Review and World Development.

In The Last Decade

Devesh Kapur

66 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Peers

Devesh Kapur
Christopher J. Coyne United States
Çağlar Özden United States
Víctor Lapuente Sweden
Fred Block United States
Gretchen Helmke United States
David Leblang United States
Sergei Guriev France
Thomas B. Pepinsky United States
Stefan Voigt Germany
Sarah Babb United States
Christopher J. Coyne United States
Devesh Kapur
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Fields of papers citing papers by Devesh Kapur

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Devesh Kapur

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kapur, Devesh, Neelanjan Sircar, & Milan Vaishnav. (2021). Gender, Social Change and Urbanisation in Four North Indian Clusters. 6(1_suppl). S7–S19.
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Kapur, Devesh, et al.. (2021). What Is Women’s Work? Reflections from Four North Indian Urban Clusters. 6(1_suppl). 3 indexed citations
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Dasgupta, Aditya & Devesh Kapur. (2021). The Political Economy of Bureaucratic Overload: Evidence from Rural Development Officials in India. SocArXiv (OSF Preprints). 5 indexed citations
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Kapur, Devesh. (2019). Poverty, power and RCTs. World Development. 127. 104811–104811. 3 indexed citations
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Kapur, Devesh, et al.. (2017). Six Puzzles in Indian Agriculture. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 13(1). 185–229. 11 indexed citations
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Kapur, Devesh. (2017). Addressing the brain drain: A partial cosmopolitanism approach. South African Journal of Philosophy. 36(1). 45–57. 4 indexed citations
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Kapur, Devesh, et al.. (2014). Geoeconomics Versus Geopolitics. Oxford University Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Kapur, Devesh, et al.. (2014). Rethinking the Financial Design of the World Bank. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations
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Kapur, Devesh & Randall Akee. (2012). Remittances and Rashomon. SSRN Electronic Journal. 8 indexed citations
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Kapur, Devesh, et al.. (2011). The Shift to Cash Transfers: Running Better But on the Wrong Road?. Economic and political weekly. 10 indexed citations
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Kapur, Devesh, Radhika Khosla, & Pratap Bhanu Mehta. (2009). climate change: india's o ptions. 14 indexed citations
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Kapur, Devesh. (2009). Public Opinion and Indian Foreign Policy. India Review. 8(3). 286–305. 11 indexed citations
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Kapur, Devesh & Pratap Bhanu Mehta. (2008). Mortgaging the Future? Indian Higher Education. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 4(1). 101–157. 6 indexed citations
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Kapur, Devesh, et al.. (2008). Beyond the ABCs: Higher Education and Developing Countries. SSRN Electronic Journal. 66 indexed citations
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Desai, Mihir A., et al.. (2008). The fiscal impact of high-skilled emigration: Flows of Indians to the U.S.. Journal of Development Economics. 88(1). 32–44. 49 indexed citations
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Kapur, Devesh. (2008). Do as I Say Not as I Do: A Critique of G-7 Proposals on Reforming the MDBs. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Kapur, Devesh. (2001). Diasporas and Technology Transfer. 2(2). 265–286. 20 indexed citations
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Kapur, Devesh. (2000). India in 1999. Asian Survey. 40(1). 195–207. 3 indexed citations
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Kapur, Devesh. (1997). Economic and Political Weekly: February 8, 1997, Bombay. Foreign Policy. 151–151.
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Lewis, John P. & Devesh Kapur. (1990). An updating country study: Thailand's needs and prospects in the 1990s. World Development. 18(10). 1363–1378. 1 indexed citations

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