Day 1: 18 December, Tuesday.
8.30 - 9.30: Registration, Coffee/Tea
9.30 - 10.00: Welcome and Opening Remarks: Sankar
Pal (Director, ISI).
Title: Climbing
Out of Poverty: Long-Term Decisions under Income Stress (with Sendhil Mullainathan,
Chair: E. Somanathan
(ISI,
11.15 - 11.30: Tea break
11.30 - 1.15: Parallel Sessions 1:
Conference Room |
Seminar Room 1 |
Seminar Room 2 |
1(a): Credit Markets Chair: Prabal Roy Chowdhury (ISI, |
1(b): Labour
Markets Chair: Kaushik Basu (Cornell University) |
1(c): HealthChair: Sanghamitra Das (ISI, |
Amit Bubna
(Indian Suman Ghosh and
Eric Van Tassel ( Jean-Marie Baland (University of Namur), Rohini Somanathan (Delhi School of Economics) and Zaki Wahaj (University of Namur): Social Exclusion and Enforcement in Group Lending. |
Sugata Marjit (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata): Labor Market Reform and Poverty - The Role of Informal Sector. Diganta Mukherjee
( Mukesh Eswaran
(UBC), Ashok Kotwal
(UBC), Bharat Ramaswami
(ISI, |
Diane Dancer ( Sonia Bhalotra
( Mariapia Mendola ( |
1.15 - 2.30: Lunch
2.30 - 3.40: Parallel Sessions 2:
Conference Room |
Seminar Room 1 |
Seminar Room 2 |
2(a): Happiness and Mental HealthChair: John Helliwell (UBC) |
2(b): Environment (Theory) Chair: E. Somanathan (ISI, |
2(c): Income Dynamics and the Middle ClassChair: Bharat Ramaswami (ISI, |
Paolo Verme ( Sanghamitra Das
(ISI, |
Parkash Chander ( Sudhir A. Shah ( |
T. Lakshmanasamy ( Sudeshna Maitra ( |
3.40 - 4.00: Tea break
4.00 - 6.00: Plenary Session:
Panel Discussion on Data for Development Research.
Ingrid Woolard (
Suresh Tendulkar
(National Statistical Commission).
Chair: Pronab Sen (Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation).
7.30: Dinner at the
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Day 2: 19 December, Wednesday.
9.00 -10.00: Travel Re-imbursements and Coffee/Tea.
Title: Life Satisfaction and Quality of Development.
Chair: Tridip
Ray (ISI,
11.15 - 11.30: Tea break
11.30 - 1.15: Parallel Sessions 3:
Conference Room |
Seminar Room 1 |
Seminar Room 2 |
3(a): Political
Economy Chair: Parikshit Ghosh (ISI, |
3(b): Trade Chair: Satya P. Das (ISI, |
3(c): Literacy and EducationChair: Wilima Wadhwa (ISI, |
Abhirup Sarkar (ISI, Kolkata): On
the Political Economy of General Strikes. Maitreesh Ghatak ( Toke |
Kamal Saggi (Southern Katsuzo Yamamoto ( Simontini Das ( |
Kaushik Basu ( Sarmistha Pal ( Sujoy Chakravarty
(IIT, |
1.15 - 2.30: Lunch
2.30 - 4.15: Parallel Sessions 4:
Conference Room |
Seminar Room 1 |
Seminar Room 2 |
4(a):
Agriculture & Industry Chair: Sanghamitra Das (ISI, |
4(b): Environment: EmpiricsChair: E. Somanathan (ISI, |
4(c): Taxation and Fiscal PolicyChair: Debajyoti Chakrabarty ( |
Takashi Kurosaki
( Sunil Kanwar ( Sumit K. Majumdar
( |
Rahul Banerjee (Krishnodayanagar,
Erin Sills, Subhrendu K. Pattanayak (RTI International and North Carolina State University), Shubhayu Saha, Jui-Chen Yang, Pravash Sahu and Ashok Singha: Mine over Matter? Health, Wealth, and Forests in a Mining Area of Orissa. Aditi Mukherji (International Water Management Institute): Against the Dominant Discourse: Making a Case for Groundwater Irrigation for Poverty Alleviation in West Bengal, India. |
Rohit Prasad (Management Development Institute, Gurgaon): Redistributive Taxation and Administrative Costs. Santanu Chatterjee
( Errol D’Souza (Indian |
4.15 - 4.30: Tea break
4.30 - 5.45: Plenary Session: T. N. Srinivasan
(
Title: Development
Strategy, the State, and Agriculture since Independence.
Chair: Bhaskar Dutta (ISI,
7.30: Dinner at the
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Day
3: 20 December, Thursday.
9.00 - 9.30: Travel Re-imbursements and Coffee/Tea.
9.30 - 12.00: Parallel Sessions 5:
Conference Room |
Seminar Room 1 |
Seminar Room 2 |
5(a): Topics in
Microeconomics Chair: Arunava Sen (ISI, |
5(b): Corruption and Governance Chair: Debasis Mishra (ISI, |
5(c): Topics in MacroeconomicsChair: Chetan Ghate (ISI, |
Brendan O’Flaherty and Rajiv Sethi ( Sanjay Jain ( Sumon Majumdar (Queen’s
University) and Sharun W. Mukand
( Rupayan Pal (Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics): Cooperative Managerial Delegation, R&D, and Collusion. |
Niloy Bose, Antu
Panini Murshid ( Sugata Marjit
(Centre For Studies in Social Science, Kolkata) and
Biswajit Mandal ( Sudeep Ghosh ( |
Debajyoti Chakrabarty,
Hajime Katayama, and Hanna Maslen ( M. Emranul Haque ( Poulomi Roy ( Ashima Goyal (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research): A General Equilibrium Open Economy Model for Emerging Markets: Monetary Policy with a Dualistic Labor Market. |