WORKSHOP : Operationalizing Pro-poor Growth in India - June 9, 2005

Public Workshop on 

Operationalizing Pro-poor Growth in India

by
Professor Tim Besley & Dr. Robin Burgess
London School of Economics

Co-sponsored by DFID (UK), London School of Economics, and the World Bank.
 
Date :   Thursday, June 9,  2005
Time :   11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Venue :  Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

Chaired by: Dr. Deepak Nayyar, Former Vice Chancellor, Delhi University

Discussants: Dr Ashok Lahiri, Chief Economic Advisor, Government of India
& Professor Suresh Tendulkar, Delhi School of Economics

This paper, which is jointly authored with Nerta Esteve-Volart, also of the London School of Economics, examines trends in growth and poverty reduction in the post-Independence period in India.  It examines what explains the heterogeneity in poverty reduction experiences across Indian states by focusing on the policy regimes that states adopted and the initial conditions which may have influenced a state’s ability to reduce poverty.

The paper identifies six key determinants of poverty reduction which emerge from the cross-state empirical studies: property rights, access to finance, human capital, gender, regulation, political accountability.

>>>>Please read the paper on "Operationalizing Pro-poor growth in India"

For any queries, please call Shiny Jaison on 011-51479213 or email sjaison@worldbank.org