May 2008
Career Opportunity at CASI: Online Editor
Position and Application Details

12.03-05.2008
2008 Conference on Dalit Agendas: Emancipation, Citizenship, and Empowerment
Conference Site

 
 
The Nand and Jeet Khemka Distinguished Lecture Series "Judicial Overreach or Oversight?" [Video]
Justice Ruma Pal

The Nand and Jeet Khemka Distiguished Lecture Series "Reforming the Indian Banking System - Why It Is Important and What Can Be Done" [video]
Raghuram Rajan

 
 
Banias and Beyond: The Dynamics of Caste and Big Business in Modern India
Harish Damodaran

Is Larry Summers the canary in the mine?
Devesh Kapur, Pratap Mehta and Arvind Subramanian, Financial Times, May 14, 2008

Are the Indian armed forces facing a human capital crisis?
Devesh Kapur, The Indian Express, March 27, 2008
 
 
 


Assessing the Status of India's Muslims: An Insider's View of the Sachar Committee Report


Rakesh Basant
Professor of Economics
IIM, Ahmedabad

Date & Venue:
March 28, 2007
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Center for the Advanced Study of India, 3600 Market St, Suite 560
Philadelphia

 
 

Dr. Basant served as the chief economist of the Prime Minister's Committee on the Social, Economic, and Educational Status of the Muslim Community in India (Sachar Committee.) In his remarks at CASI, he will share a unique perspective on the many factors that went into the Report's production. For anyone interested in seeing the document, you can download a PDF version of the file from the website of the National Council of Applied Economic Research: http://www.ncaer.org/whatsnew.html#N4

Dr. Basant is currently a senior fellow at the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi. His teaching and research interests focus on public policy and regulation. His recent work has looked at competition policy, inter-firm linkages for technology development, strategic and policy aspects of intellectual property rights, linkages between public policy and technological change, industrial clusters, the economics of strategy, and the small-scale sector in India. He received the Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Economics and spent two years as a Visiting Research Fellow at Yale University's Economic Growth Center. He has also worked as a consultant to several international organizations.