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About
The Ph.D. programme is designed to create academic researchers as well as professionals who are capable of conducting policy analysis, relating to national and global economic and development issues, from a quantitative and inter-disciplinary perspective. While an interdisciplinary approach is encouraged, the programme lays somewhat larger emphasis on economics to provide an integrated framework within which various development issues can be addressed. Minimum duration of the Ph.D programme is 3 years. Ph.D. programmes involve successful completion of course work as well as submission of dissertation. M.Sc. stream students who would like to register for a Ph.D. degree need to pass the oral comprehensive examination in the form of proposal cum evaluation seminar and fulfil prescribed course and minimum grade requirements.
Admission Eligibility
(i) The applicants to Ph.D. programmes must have valid UGC-JRF/CSIR-JRF or other international level scholarship to pursue Ph.D.
(ii) The applicants to PhD programmes must have studied Mathematics at the higher secondary or higher level.
(iii) The applicants to PhD programmes must have the qualifying percentage of marks or its equivalent in the qualifying degrees as indicated below:
| Programme | Qualifying Degree | Qualifying Marks across category of students | |
| PhD Programme | General | SC/ST/ GEN-EWS/ OBC-NCL /PwD |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Master degree in Economics/Development Studies/Statistics/ Environmental Science/ Operations Research/Physics/Mathematics/ Management/Engineering/Relevant or allied subject | 55% | 50% | |
| BA/BSc/BStat/ BTech/BE (four year degree) | 75% | 70% | |
Course Structure and Duration
IGIDR offer admission to the following Ph.D. programmes:
(i) Ph.D. in Economics
(ii) Ph.D. in Development Studies
(iii) Ph.D. in Energy, Environment & Climate Change
The minimum duration of the PhD programmes at IGIDR is of three years including course work. To register to the Ph.D. degree, a student is required to complete 64 credits comprising core and elective courses. Students are also required to pass their proposal evaluation comprehensive examination, external thesis evaluation followed by viva-voce examination before conferment of Ph.D. Degree.
Course structure for the three Ph.D. programmes is as follows:
List of courses in – Ph.D. in Economics
| Semester | Course |
| Semester I | Research Methodology (4 Credits) Mathematics I (4 Credits) Statistics & Econometrics – I (4 Credits) Microeconomics – I (4 Credits) Macroeconomics – I (4 Credits) |
| Total Credits | 20 |
| Semester II | Statistics & Econometrics – II (4 Credits) Mathematics – II/Methods to Experimental Economics (2 Credits) Microeconomics – II (4 Credits) Macroeconomics – II (4 Credits) |
| Total Credits | 14 |
| Semester III | Research & Publication Ethics (2 Credits) Four elective courses of 4 credits (From list of elective courses offered and advised by the RAC) |
| Total Credits | 18 |
| Semester IV | Directed Studies (4 Credits) Two elective courses of 4 credits each (From list of elective courses offered and advised by the RAC) |
| Total Credits | 12 |
| Total Credits after 4 semesters | 64 |
| List of some elective courses | 1. Development Economics 2. Special Topics in Microeconomics 3. Game Theory 4. Issues in Corporate Finance and Growth 5. Applied General Equilibrium Models 6. Institutional Economics: Theory and Applications 7. Oligopoly Theory 8. Political Economy of Institutions and Development 9. Spectral analysis and Wavelets 10. Topics in Applied Econometrics 11. Introduction to Python for Economists 12. Elements of Data Science 13. Advanced Mathematical Methods for Economics & Finance 14. The role of Finance in Macroeconomics 15. Markets, Incentives & Agriculture in India |
List of courses in – Ph.D. in Development Studies
| Semester | Course |
| Semester I | Research Methodology (4 Credits) Research & Publication Ethics (2 Credits) Statistics & Econometrics – I (4 Credits) Microeconomics – I (4 Credits) Macroeconomics – I (4 Credits) |
| Total | 18 |
| Semester II | Statistics & Econometrics – II (4 Credits) Theories of Development (4 Credits) Qualitative Research Methods (4 Credits) Directed Studies (6 Credits) |
| Total Credits | 18 |
| Semester III | Health & Development (4 Credits) Three elective courses of 4 credits each (From list of elective courses offered and advised by the RAC) |
| Total Credits | 16 |
| Semester IV | Three elective courses of 4 credits each (From list of elective courses offered and advised by the RAC) |
| Total Credits | 12 |
| Total Credits after 4 semesters | 64 |
| List of some elective courses | 1. Education & Development 2. Development Economics 3. Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems 4. Markets, Incentives & Agriculture in India 5. Institutional Economics: Theory and Applications 6. Political Economy of Institutions and Development 7. Introduction to Python for Economists 8. Contemporary Issues in Human Development & Policy 9. Elements of Data Science 10. Socioeconomic and Policy Issues in |
List of courses in – Ph.D. in Energy, Environment & Climate Change
| Semester | Course |
| Semester I | Research Methodology (4 Credits) Research & Publication Ethics (2 Credits) Statistics & Econometrics – I (4 Credits) Microeconomics – I (4 Credits) Macroeconomics – I (4 Credits) |
| Total Credits | 18 |
| Semester II | Statistics & Econometrics – II (4 Credits) Introduction to Energy Studies (4 Credits) Introduction to Environmental Studies (4 Credits) Directed Studies (6 Credits) |
| Total Credits | 18 |
| Semester. III | Four elective courses of 4 credits each (From list of elective courses offered and advised by the RAC) |
| Total Credits | 16 |
| Semester IV | Three elective courses of 4 credits each (From list of elective courses offered and advised by the RAC) |
| Total Credits | 12 |
| Total Credits after 4 semesters | 64 |
| List of some elective courses | 1. Development Economics 2. Sustainable Agriculture 3. Markets, Incentives & Agriculture in India 4. Introduction to Python for Economists 5. Elements of Data Science 6. Energy Economics and Modelling 7. Environmental and Resource Economics 8. Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems 9. Scientific and Technological Issues in EE 10. Socio-economic and Policy Issues in EE |
Costs
- PhD students have to pay a tuition fee of ₹ 25,000/- per semester and a hostel fee, which is 8% of their stipend amount per month.
- All students residing in the hostel will have to pay water and electricity charges as per actuals and make payments to the caterer against the food they consume. For students residing in guest house/Hostel block, electricity charges will be Rs.600/- per month.
- The tuition and other fees may be revised from time to time.
Financial Assistance
- PhD students will receive a monthly stipend of ₹31,000/- in the first two years. Those students, who fulfil the terms and conditions for PhD registration, will receive a monthly stipend of ₹43,750/- after their PhD registration in the third year. PhD students are required to provide part time research or teaching assistantship from their second year onwards.
- PhD students who enrol after successful completion of their MSc or MPhil at IGIDR will receive a stipend for three years, ₹31000/- before and ₹43,750/- after their PhD registration.
Placement
A majority of IGIDR PhD are placed as post-doctoral fellows or as faculty members in leading academic institutions in India and abroad, including Centre for Development Studies, Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP, Formerly Brookings India), Centurion Education at Chhattisgarh, Delhi School of Economics, Indian Institute of Management at various locations, Indian Institute of Technology at various locations, Madras School of Economics, NABARD, Sarla Anil Modi School of Economics NMIMS University, Trinity College, UNESCO Paris, and University of Manchester among others or in think tanks/research institutes like Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) and National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP).
