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Conference on Anti-Poverty and Social Policy in India

-- Program --

January 2-4, 2004

Neemrana Fort Palace
Alwar, Rajasthan, India

January 2

Inequality, Labour Markets and Governments

 

Session 1. Chair: Sam Bowles

9:00 - 10:00 Thomas Piketty
"Top Indian Incomes 1956-2000" (with Abhijit Banerjee)
10:00 - 11:00 Suresh Tendulkar
"Organised Labour Market in India: Pre and Post-Reform"
11:00 - 11:30 Break
 

Session 2. Chair: Sudipto Mundle

11:30 - 12:30 Anjini Kochar
"Government, Schooling and Poverty: The Trickle-down Benefits of Higher Schooling in India"
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 3:00 Esther Duflo
"Efficiency and Rent-Seeking in Local Governments" (with Raghab Chattopadhyay)
 

Food Policy and Inequality

Chair: Pedro Medrano

3:00 - 4:00 Bharat Ramaswami
"Reforming Food Policies: The Costs and Impacts of Food Subsidies."
4:00 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:30 Shikha Jha
"Efficient Redistribution through Deregulation of Domestic Grain Markets" (with P.V. Srinivasan)

January 3

Education Reforms

 

Chair: Raghabendra Chattopadhyay

9:00 - 10:00 Abhijit Banerjee
"Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India" (with Sharon Cole, Esther Duflo and Leigh Linden)
10:00 - 11:00 François Leclercq
"Education Policy Reforms and the Quality of the School System: A Field Study of Primary Schools in Madhya Pradesh, India"
11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30 Jyotsna Jalan
"Improving Primary School Education in India: An Impact Assessment of DPEP Phase 1" (with Elena Glinskaya)
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
 

Child Labor, Gender and Health Policy

Chair: A. Vaidyanathan

2:00 - 3:00 Indrani Gupta
"Inequities in Health and Health Care in India: Can the Poor Hope for a Respite?"
3:00 - 4:00 Sanghamitra Das
"Birth-Order, Gender and Wealth as Determinants of Child Labour: An Empirical Study of the Indian Experience" (with Kaushik Basu and Bhaskar Dutta)
4:00 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:30 Shubhashis Gangopadhyay
"Are Female-Headed Households in India More Vulnerable to Poverty?"

January 4

Panel Discussions

9:00 - 10:45

Panel Discussion on Anti-Poverty Policy in India

Panelists: Jean Dreze, Ravi Duggal, Anirudh Krishna, RamManohar Reddy (to speak for 15 min each)

10:45 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 1:00

Panel Discussion on Labour Policy in India

Panelists: Mrinal Datta-Chaudhuri, Ashok Desai, Ajeet Mathur, R. Nagaraj
Nagaraj paper: "Labour Policy: Does India Face a Wage Problem?"

1:00 - 2:30 Lunch
Conferees depart

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