Amit Basole heads the Centre for Sustainable Employment and works on ​“jobless growth” in India. He is also the Associate Professor of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, at the University. His earlier research projects include causes of declining calorie consumption in India, impacts of subcontracting on informal firms, knowledge sharing in informal industrial clusters, conditions of work for home-based women workers, the economics of Geographical Indications, and skill acquisition in the informal economy. He has a particular interest in people’s’ knowledge traditions and their significance in creating alternatives to the paradigm of ​“Development.”