DR. ABDUL SHABAN
Assistant Professor

Centre for Development Studies
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

E-mail: shaban@tiss.edu

Qualifications

• B.A. (Hons.), Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.
• M.A. ( Regional Development- Geography), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
• M.Phil. (Planning & Development), Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
• Ph.D. (Banking & Regional Development), Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Areas of Interest

• Regional (urban) Development Issues; Spatial Forms and Socio-economic Processes; Rural–Urban Linkages; Migration, Poverty, and Food Security.
• Environment and Development; Urbanisation Process; Urban Spatial Structure & Dialectics; Urban Infrastructures; Urban Poverty; Urban Peripheralisation and Decay; Resettlement and Rehabilitation; Urban Space & Crimes.
• Finance & Development.
• Spatial Econometrics (Statistics), Remote Sensing & GIS.

Recent Research & Projects

Ongoing

• Socio-economic Survey for NTPC –GPCL JV Thermal Power Project at Pipavav, Gujarat.
• City, Space and Crime: A Case of Mumbai Metropolis, sponsored by Board of Research Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
• Food Safety & Quality Control of Drugs in India, sponsored by Ministry Of Health And Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi. (It is a Capacity Building Project on Food Safety & Quality Control of Drugs, assisted by the World Bank)

Completed

• Food Safety & Quality Control of Drugs in India, sponsored by Ministry Of Health And Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi. (It is a Capacity Building Project on Food Safety & Quality Control of Drugs, assisted by the World Bank)
• Livelihoods, Employment and Sustainable Development: An initiative towards improving skills and employability of people, sponsored by Confederation of Indian Industries, Mumbai.
• An impact Assessment of Initial Phase of Resettlement & Rehabilitation (R & R) Implementation for the Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP), sponsored by the World Bank & Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA)
• Water Consumption and Wastage Patterns in Domestic Households in Seven Major Cities in India, Sponsored by Hindustan Lever Limited, Mumbai
• Socio-economic Benefits of Establishing a Petroleum Refinery at Bina, Madhya Pradesh: An Impact Study, sponsored by Bharat Oman Refineries Limited, Mumbai
• Social Impact Assessment (SIA) of Maha Mumbai Special Economic Zone (MMSEZ), sponsored by Sea King Infrastructure Limited Mumbai.

• Abdul Shaban and L.M. Bhole
  Pattern and Determinants of Land Utilisation in Maharashtra, Indian Journal of Regional Science, Vol.XXIX, No.2, 1997, pp.75-87.
• Abdul Shaban
  Spatial Variations in Crimes in Maharashtra, Geographical Review of India, Vol.59, No.3, 1997, pp.204-215.
• Abdul Shaban and L.M. Bhole
  Measuring Development Distances Between Regions in India: A Combined Component Approach, Man & Development, March 1999, pp.82-96.
• Abdul Shaban and L.M. Bhole
  Development and Disparities in Maharashtra: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis, Indian Journal of Regional Science, March 1997.
• Abdul Shaban and L.M. Bhole
  Regional Disparities in Rural Development in India, Journal of Rural Development, Vol.19, No.1, pp. 103-117. (Published as a Note).
• Abdul Shaban and L.M. Bhole
  Regional Disparities in Rural Development in India, Journal of Rural evelopment and Administration, Peshawar, Pakistan, Spring, Apr.-Jun. 2000
• L.M. Bhole and Abdul Shaban
  Development of Commercial Banking in Maharashtra: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis, Indian Journal of Regional Science, Vol.XXXII, No. 1, 2000, pp.103-117.
• Abdul Shaban
  Crimes in Indian Cities, Geographical Review of India, Vol.61, No.4, 1999, pp.336-351.
• Abdul Shaban
  Spatio-Temporal Study of Power Supply in Punjab and Haryana (1968- 1990): A Critique, Geographical Review of India, Vol.62, No.2, Sept.2000.
• S. Sattar and Abdul Shaban
  Development of Tourism Industry in Sikkim: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis Geographical Review of India, Dec.2000, pp.317-334.
• Abdul Shaban
  Regional Aspects of Gender Specific Crimes in India, IASSI-Quarterly, Jul.-Sept.2000, pp.56-69
• Abdul Shaban and S.Sattar
  Cointegration and Causality Between Population and Income in India, Geographical Review of India, March 2002.
• Abdul Shaban and L.M. Bhole
  Determinants of Bank Deposits in India: A State-wise Analysis, Indian Journal of Regional Science, June 2002.
• Abdul Shaban
  Growth and Disparities of Income Across India States, Man & Development', September 2002, pp. 31-48.
• Abdul Shaban and L.M. Bhole
  State-wise Differences in Determinants of Bank Credit in India, IASSI-Quarterly, Vol.20, No.2, 2001.
• Abdul Shaban
  Development of Commercial Banking in India: A Regional Analysis, Artha-Vikas, Vol.37, No.1, 2001.
• L.M. Bhole & Abdul Shaban
  Commercial Banking: A Profile of Spatial Development in B. Mungekar (ed.), The Economy of Maharashtra: Changing Structure and Emerging Issues, Dr. Ambedkar Institute of Social & Economic Change, Mumbai, 2003.
• Abdul Shaban
  Environmental Kuznets Curve: Theory and Empirical Evidence, IASSI Quarterly, Oct-Dec 2003
• Abdul Shaban & P.L. Katara
  Food Security and Agricultural Supply Response in Dungarpur, Rajasthan, Geographical Review of India, Vol. 65, No. 4, Dec, 2003, pp. 361-376.
• Abdul Shaban, Ishaq M. Kayamkhani, & P.L. Katara
  Determinants of Rural Migration: A Study of Dungarpur District, Rajasthan, Annals of the Rajasthan Geographical Association , Vol.XVII-XVIII, 2000-01.
• Abdul Shaban
  Homicide in Mumbai: A Geographical Analysis, Occasional Paper, Bombay Geographical Association, Issue No. 2, Dec.2005, pp.12-22.
• Abdul Shaban
  Birth of City, review of the book Making of Navi Mumbai (by A. Shaw), Orient Longman, New Delhi - Economic and Political Weekly, November 27, 2004
• Regional Structure, Growth and Convergence of Income in Maharashtra. Abdul Shaban - Economic and Political Weekly, May 2006, pp.1803-1815.
• Environmental Kuznets Curve: Theoretical and Empirical Issues. Abdul Shaban - "IASSI Quarterly", Vol.23,No.4, 2005.