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Annual Report 2011 CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS at the DELHI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS The Eighteenth Annual Report AUGUST 2011 CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007 Tel.: 91 11 27666533 – 535, 27666703 – 705, Fax: 91 11 27667159 E-mail: [email protected], Website: http://www.cdedse.org CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS UNIVERSITY OF DELHI DELHI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS DELHI 110007 C O N T E N T S Page Nos. Introduction 3 Activities during 2010 – 11 5 Research Projects 2010 - 11 9 Seminars 15 Research Publications of the Members 17 Papers presented at Conferences/Seminars 21 by the Members Lectures/talks presented by the Members 25 Honours received by the Members 25 Working Papers 26 Computing Facilities & Databases, Library and Visitors 27 Office Staff 28 1 INTRODUCTION The Centre for Development Economics (CDE) was set up with a generous grant from the Ministry of Finance, Government of India as a research adjunct of the Delhi School of Economics (Department of Economics) to provide better research facilities to the faculty and the students of the Department of Economics. It is a non-profit organization that supports research in all areas of Economics. It came into existence in August 1992 and began effectively functioning from early 1993, with the full range of activities picking up only in late 1993 after it received its grants from the Government of India and the Ford Foundation. AIMS nTo promote and disseminate research; nTo sponsor economists from all over India and abroad to visit the Delhi School of Economics; nTo conduct regular conferences and workshops; nTo upgrade research infrastructure, including communication and computing facilities. 3 THE COUNCIL Activities During 2010 – 2011 nPulin B. Nayak nAditya Bhattacharjea Executive Director Managing Director WINTER SCHOOL 2010 nAshwini Deshpande nRam Singh Secretary Treasurer The Centre for Development Economics organized an international workshop, called Winter School 2010, during December 13 to 15, 2010. nPami Dua nSudhir A. Shah Member Member Professor Dinesh Singh, Vice-Chancellor, University of Delhi, delivered the inaugural address. nMausumi Das nParamjit Member Member The workshop consisted of two parts. The first part consisted of a series of nSugata Bag expository lectures by invited eminent economists on their fields of Member research expertise. The second part consisted of short presentations of current research papers by scholars from India and abroad. ADVISORS Professor Prasanta K. Pattanaik of the University of California at nKaushik Basu nKenneth J. Arrow Professor of Economics and, Joan Kenney Professor of Economics and Riverside, USA delivered a series of lectures on 'Theory of Social Choice' C. Marks Professor of International Professor of Operations Research, entitled 'The Ethical Basis of Normative Economics and the Concept of Well- Studies, Cornell University and, Emeritus and CHP/PCOR Fellow; Padma Bhushan. FSI Senior Fellow by courtesy, being' and 'Functioning and Capability'. Professor Dilip Abreu of Currently, Chief Economic Advisor Stanford University and, Princeton University delivered a series of lectures entitled 'Bargaining and to the Ministry of Finance, Nobel Laureate in Economics Government of India Reputation'. Professor Roy Batchelor of Cass Business School, City University London delivered a series of lectures on 'Banking and Finance' nMrinal Datta Chaudhuri nBimal Jalan Former Professor of Economics and Ex-Governor, Reserve Bank of India entitled 'Forecasting versus Econometrics', 'Heterogeneous Agents, Chaos Ex-Director, Delhi School of Economics and Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) Theory, Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms' and 'Technical Trading Rules nAmartya Sen nJoseph E. Stiglitz – Analysing the Analysts'. In addition to these lectures, short research talks Thomas W. Lamont University Professor of Economics, Professor and Professor of Economics Columbia University, were given by scholars from Burdwan University (West Bengal), Institute & Philosophy, Harvard University, Former Senior President & Chief for Financial Management & Research (Chennai), Delhi School of Cambridge, and, Nobel Laureate in Economist, The World Bank and, Economics, Visva-Bharati (Santiniketan, West Bengal), TERI University Economics and Bharat Ratna. Nobel Laureate in Economics (Delhi), Indian Statistical Institute (Kolkata), University of Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, Columbia Law School (New York, USA), Indian School of THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE ENDOWMENT FUND Business (Hyderabad), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Indian The Office Bearers of the Centre for Development Economics and the Institute of Technology (Kanpur), Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan), Head of the Department of Economics together with Chief Economic Madras School of Economics (Chennai), University of Cape Town (South Advisor of the Ministry of Finance, Government of India, constitute the Africa) and Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi). Governing Council of the Endowment Fund. 4 5 The Winter School was extremely well-attended. Apart from the students KRISHNA RAJ SUMMER FELLOWSHIPS PROGRAMME 2010 and faculty of the Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, students and faculty from various other institutions in Delhi also attended Under the Krishna Raj Summer Programme (funded by Sameeksha Trust), the sessions and participated in the discussions. nine groups of students from the Departments of Economics and Sociology of the Delhi School of Economics were selected and provided The Centre for Development Economics would like to express its fellowships to carry out field surveys during the summer of 2010. These gratitude to University of Delhi, NABARD (Mumbai) and National nine projects were selected from a set of 21 applications received initially Housing Bank (New Delhi), for their generous support to the Winter and the surveys were executed under the supervision of Ashwini School. Deshpande, J. V. Meenakshi, Aditya Bhattacharjea and Anirban Kar. SUKHAMOY CHAKRAVARTY MEMORIAL LECTURE 2010 The following projects were selected: The Professor Sukhamoy Chakravarty Memorial Lecture Organized by 1. Evaluation of Ladli Yojana Apoorva Gupta (Economics) the Centre, was delivered by Professor Kaushik Basu, Chief Economic Advisor to the Ministry of Finance, Government of India and C. Marks 2. Living in Bavana: Childhood Experiences of Girls Professor of Economics, Cornell University, on December 10, 2010. He Anupriya Gaur, Nidhi Gaur & Nivya Nair (Sociology) spoke on 'India's Food Grain Policy – An Economic Perspective'. 3. Cost of Human Wildlife Conflict and Its Compensation in Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary REFRESHER TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR ISS PROBATIONERS Radhika Kapoor, Randeep Kaur & Sneha Lamba (Economics) The Centre organized a refresher training course on “Recent 4. Identifying BPL Households: A Comparison of Competing Developments in Index Numbers” during August 1 – 5, 2011, for a batch of Approaches M. R. Sharan (Economics) 37 ISS Probationers from 31st and 32nd batch nominated by the National Academy of Statistical Administration (NASA), Central Statistical 5. Van Panchayats in Three Villages: Dependency and Access Organization (CSO), Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation, Chandana Anusha, Tanya Matthan & Devika Narayan (Sociology) Government of India. 6. Solid Waste Management: A Case Study of Delhi Vishruti Gupta (Economics) Professor T. C. A. Anant (Faculty Member, Delhi School of Economics and current Chief Statistician of India, Ministry of Statistics and Programme 7. How Does the Existing Bamboo Policy Affect the Livelihood Options Implementation) delivered the inauguration lecture, while Professor and Commercial Prospects of the Economically Disadvantaged in the Sudipto Mundle (Emeritus Professor at the NIPFP and Member, National North Eastern States of Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh? Statistical Commission, Government of India) delivered the valedictory Jennifer Pachuau, Malavika Vyawahare & Zilpha Modi (Sociology) and lecture to the participants. Bhavnit Batra (Economics) 6 7 8. The Role of NGOs in Social Welfare of Poor People Research Projects 2010-11 Vijender Kumar, Virender Kumar & Alok Nandan (Economics) 9. Interface between Religion, Politics and Tourism in Dharamshala INTERNATIONAL ECONOMETRIC INDIA LINK MODEL Naina Sharma & Meghana Arora (Sociology) (Forecasts are developed as part of World Project LINK.) The project entitled 'Identifying BPL Households: A Comparison of Project Coordinators: : Pami Dua and N.R. Bhanumurthy Competing Approaches' by M. R. Sharan, student of M. A. (Economics) was Research Associates: : Lokendra Kumawat and Deepika Goel selected for publication in the Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) and Advisers: : K. Krishnamurty and V. Pandit appeared in Vol. XLVI, Nos. 26 & 27, June 25, 2011. The following activities were undertaken during the year 2010-11: (a) Updation of the model. KRISHNA RAJ SUMMER FELLOWSHIPS PROGRAMME 2011 (b) Press Release on INDIA LINK Macroeconomic Outlook for Under the Krishna Raj Summer Programme (funded by Sameeksha Trust), 2011-12, May 2011. fellowships were granted to eight groups of students from the (c) Presentation of forecasts in the World Project LINK International Departments of Economics and Sociology of the Delhi School of Meeting held at the United Nations, New York, October 2010. Economics, for conducting field surveys under the supervision of Ashwini (d) Presentation of forecasts at the Department of Economic Affairs, Deshpande, J. V. Meenakshi,
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