Devika Dutt

Dr Devika Dutt

Early Career Fellow

Mapping Elite Academic Economics Networks in the International Monetary Fund

This project aims to identify the predominant economic theoretical traditions that influenced and shaped economic policy advice made by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by identifying academic networks of key economists involved in IMF policy advice and conditions attached to structural adjustment programs. Specifically, the project seeks to identify whether there is a distinct academic economic tradition that can be traced in the formulation of the IMF Institutional View on important policy issues such as IMF debt sustainability analysis and compliance with IMF Articles of Agreement, using a novel network analysis.

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Areas of interest

Development Economics International Monetary System Governance Political Economy Development Policy Macroeconomics Economic Policy Decolonisation

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ECF8

Biography

Devika Dutt is a Lecturer in Development Economics at King's College, London. Her research is focused on the international monetary system, institutions of global governance, the political economy of development policy, macroeconomic policy in developing economies, and decolonizing economics. Her latest book, Decolonizing Economics: An Introduction (with Carolina Alves, Surbhi Kesar, and Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven) highlights the Eurocentric foundations that shape how economists study the world today, that have rendered it ill-equipped to tackle fundamental economic questions, what decolonizing it would entail and how to approach it. She has also previously worked for international policy organizations like the World Health Organization, International Labour Organization, UNCTAD, and the International Trade Union Confederation.

Biographical details correct as of 10.09.25