Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012 The Economic Rise of China and India

DateTimeLocation
Tuesday, October 2, 201212:30PM - 2:00PMExternal Event, Moot Court Room, Flavelle House, Faculty of Law

Description

Pranab Bardhan, a Cambridge University PhD, has been at Berkeley since 1977, following teaching appointments at MIT and the Delhi School of Economics. He was the chief editor of the Journal of Development Economics for 1985-2003. He was the co-chair of the MacArthur Foundation-funded Network on the Effects of Inequality on Economic Performance for 1996-2007. He held the Distinguished Fulbright Siena Chair at the University of Siena, Italy in 2008-9. He is the BP Centennial Professor at London School of Economics for 2010 and 2011.He is the author of 12 books and more than 150 journal articles, and the editor of 12 other books. He has done theoretical and field studies research on rural institutions in poor countries, on political economy of development policies, and on international trade. A part of his work is in the interdisciplinary area of economics, political science, and social anthropology. His current research involves theoretical and empirical work on decentralized governance, and the political economy of development in China and India.


Speakers

Pranab Bardhan
Professor of Graduate School, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley


Sponsors

Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

Co-Sponsors

Asian Institute

Centre for South Asian Studies

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