5th  Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development
(Dedicated to the Memory of Professor Sanghamitra Das, 1958-2008)

December 16-18, 2009

Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi 110016


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Parallel Sessions 6 (18 December, Friday; 2.30 - 4.15 PM)

  • Session 6(a): Inequality and Poverty (Conference Room) [Chair: Wilima Wadhwa (ISI, Delhi)]

Ankita Mishra (Monash University) and Ranjan Ray (Monash University): "Prices, Inequality and Poverty: Methodology and Indian Evidence".

Ingvild Almas (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration): "International Income Inequality: Measuring PPP Bias by Estimating Engel Curves for Food".

Ingvild Almas (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration), Anders Kjelsrud (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration) and Rohini Somanathan (Delhi School of Economics): "Poverty Reduction in India - New Evidence Based on Micro Data".

  • Session 6(b): Political Economy (Seminar Room 1) [Chair: Sonia Bhalotra (University of Bristol)]

Lakshmi Iyer (Harvard Business School) and Maya Shivakumar (Harvard Business School): "Electoral Redistricting in the World's Largest Democracy: An Evaluation".

Sonia Bhalotra (University of Bristol) and Irma Clots-Figueras (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid): "Health and the Political Agency of Women".

Marianna Belloc (Sapienza University of Rome), Francesco Drago (University of Naples Parthenope) and Roberto Galbiati (CNRS EconomiX Paris): "The Long-term Effects of Political Institutions on Growth and Inequality in Italian Cities".

  • Session 6(c): Empirical Issues III (Seminar Room 2) [Chair: Takashi Kurosaki (Hitotsubashi University)]

Louise Grogan and Asha Sadanand (University of Guelph): "Electrification and the Household".

TCA Anant (Delhi School of Economics) and Ram Singh (Delhi School of Economics): "Distribution of Highways Public Private Partnerships in India: Key Legal and Economic Determinants".

Bart Minten (International Food Policy Research Institute), Thomas Reardon (Michigan State University) and Rajib Sutradhar (Jawaharlal Nehru University): "Food Prices and Modern Retail: The Case of Delhi".

  • Session 6(d): Economic Growth, Trade and Aid (Class Room 13) [Chair: Parantap Basu (Durham University)]

Pengfei Wang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) and Danyang Xie (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology): "Hetergeneous Sectors, Trade, and Growth".

C. Veeramani (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai): "Impact of Imported Intermediate and Capital Goods on Economic Growth: A Cross Country Analysis".

Santanu Chatterjee (University of Georgia), Paola Giuliano (University of California, Los Angeles and IZA) and Ilker Kaya (American University of Sharjah): "Where Has All the Money Gone? Foreign Aid and the Quest for Growth".

  • Session 6(e): Macro Modeling of Indian Economy (Class Room 14) [Chair: Sabyasachi Kar (Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi)]

Rahul Anand (Cornell University), Shanaka Peiris (IMF), and Magnus Saxegaard (IMF): "An Estimated Model with Macrofinancial Linkages for India".

John Bailey Jones (State University of New York at Albany) and Sohini Sahu (State University of New York at Albany): "Transition Accounting for India in a Multi-Sector Dynamic General Equilibrium Model".

Sudhanshu Kumar (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai), Naveen Srinivasan (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai) and M. Ramachandran (Pondicherry University): "A Time-Varying Parameter Model of Inflation in India".


Last Updated on 13 December 2009.