INDIA POLICY FORUM - 2013

POLICY
FORUM 2014
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Seminar Hall,
1st
Floor, India International Centre, New Wing, New Delhi
08:30 am
Registration, coffee, and light breakfast
9:00-9:15 am
Introduction and welcome
Shekhar Shah, NCAER and Subir Gokarn, Brookings
9:15-11:00 am
From Tapering to Tightening: the Impact of the Fed’s Exit on India
Kaushik Basu, World Bank
Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley
Poonam Gupta, World Bank
Chair
Y. V. Reddy, 14th Finance Commission
Discussants Shankar Acharya, ICRIER
Kenneth Kletzer, University of California, Santa Cruz
Tea
11:00-11:30 am
11:30 am -1:00 pm
1:00-2:00 pm
Enhancing Nutrition Security via India’s National Food Security Act:
Using an Axe instead of a Scalpel?
Sonalde Desai, NCAER and University of Maryland
Reeve Vanneman, University of Maryland
Chair
Ajay Chhibber, Independent Evaluation Office
Discussants Shubhashis Gangopadhyay, Shiv Nadar University & IDF
Rinku Murgai, World Bank
Lunch
2:00-3:30 pm
The Evolution of Gender Gaps in India
Shampa Bhattacharjee, University of British Columbia
Viktoria Hnatkovska, University of British Columbia
Amartya Lahiri, University of British Columbia
Chair
Rohini Somanathan, Delhi School of Economics
Discussants Pranab Bardhan, University of California, Berkeley
Dilip Mookherjee, Boston University
3:30-4:00 pm
Tea
4:00-5:30 pm
Are Publicly Financed Health Insurance Schemes Working in India?
Shamika Ravi, Brookings Institution & Indian School of Business
Sofi Bergkvist, Access Health International
Chair
T. N. Srinivasan, Yale University
Discussants Abhijit Banerjee, MIT
Nirvikar Singh, University of California, Santa Cruz
THE 2014 INDIA POLICY FORUM Lecture
Multipurpose Hall, India International Centre, New Wing, New Delhi
6:30 pm
Registration and reception
7:00 pm
Welcome and introduction
Release of the 2013-14 India Policy Forum Volume
IPF 2014
LECTURE
India: Changing Mindsets, Accelerating Growth, Reducing Inequality
Surjit S. Bhalla, OxUS Investments & NCAER
Chair: Shekhar Shah, NCAER
8:30 pm
The 2014 IPF 11th Anniversary Dinner
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POLICY
FORUM 2014
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Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Seminar Hall, 1st Floor, India International Centre, New Wing
9:00 am
Coffee and light breakfast
9:30–11:00 am
Corruption in India: Bridging Academic Evidence and Policy Options
Sandip Sukhtankar, Dartmouth College
Milan Vaishnav, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Chair
Rajnish Mehra, University of Luxembourg & NBER
Discussants Devesh Kapur, University of Pennsylvania
Karthik Muralidharan, University of California, San Diego
& NCAER
11:00-11:30 am
Tea
11:30 am–1:30 pm
IPF Policy Roundtable
The State and the Enterprise: How Should the New Indian
Government Reset the Relationship?
Moderator
Panellists
1:30 pm
Arvind Panagariya, Columbia University & NCAER
T. N. Ninan, Business Standard
Mihir Desai, Harvard Business School
K. P. Krishnan, Ministry of Finance
Surjit Bhalla, OxUS Investments & NCAER
Concluding lunch
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