Devesh Kapur is the Director of Asia Programs and Starr Foundation Professor of South Asian Studies at The

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...

School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Formerly, he was the director at the Center for the Advanced Study of India, Madan Lal Sobti Associate Professor for the Study of Contemporary India, and Professor of Political Science at the

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. He is also a non-resident fellow at the

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. He is also a monthly contributor to ''

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'', an Indian business news daily, and an occasional contributor to

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Academic life

Kapur has a BTech and MS in

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(from Banaras Hindu University and the

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respectively) and a

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from

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. He taught at

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, where he received the Joseph R. Levenson Teaching Prize awarded to the best junior faculty in 2005. In 2006, he joined the

and was appointed director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India there. In 2018, Kapur was appointed as Director of Asia Programs and Starr Foundation Professor of South Asian Studies at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

Books

Kapur is the author of ''Diaspora, Development, and Democracy: The Domestic Impact of International Migration from India'', published by

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. He has also co-authored the books ''The World Bank: Its First Half Century (Vol I and II)'' (an official history of the

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, with John Lewis and Richard Webb) and ''Give Us Your Best and Brightest: The Global Hunt for Talent and Its Impact on the Developing World'' (with John McHale).

Other academic work

An article Kapur wrote titled "Remittances: The New Development Mantra?" was widely cited as a critique of the growing attention being paid to

remittances A remittance is a non-commercial transfer of money by a foreign worker, a member of a diaspora community, or a citizen with familial ties abroad, for household income in their home country or homeland. Money sent home by migrants competes with ...

in the development economics community, including ''

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'' in an article about remittances.

References

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