Indira Hirway is director and professor of economics of the Center for Development Alternatives, Ahmedabad, India. Her major areas of interest are poverty and human development, labor and employment, environment and development, environment accounting, gender and development, time use studies, development alternatives, and development paradigms. In the field of public works and employment guarantee programs, she has written two books: Wage Employment Programmes in Rural Development: A Study of National Rural Employment Programmes in India (New Delhi: Oxford & IBH Publishing Company, 1986) and Towards Employment Guarantee in India: Indian and International Experiences in Rural Public Works Programmes (with P. Terhal) (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1994). She has written several papers on the subject and has evaluated the recent Indian employment guarantee program for the Indian government. She has been a member of the Indo Dutch Mission on the examination of feasibility of the Employment Guarantee Scheme in two Indian states (1994–95) and of the National Team for Concurrent Monitoring of NREGA, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, New Delhi.