Nausheen Nizami is an Assistant Professsor of Economics in Gargi College, University of Delhi. She is also pursuing her PhD in Economics from Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). She has written a unit on Economic Reforms in India for IGNOU s self-learning material for MA (Economics) programme and has also contributed to a research paper in the Indian Journal of Labour Economics. Labour economics, human development, econometrics and industrial economics are her areas of interest.