Jointly organised
by
Institute for Social and
Economic Change, Bangalore
University of Oxford, UK
London School of Economics and Political Science,
UK
Venue: ISEC
Date: September 3 (Friday), 2010
Centre
for Decentralisation and Development is undertaking new and innovative
research on Poverty Alleviation in Karnataka in collaboration with the
University of Oxford and London School of Economics, UK, as a part of
DFID funded research consortium on Improving Institutions for Pro-Poor
Growth. The partner organisations in this consortium, coming from UK,
Bangladesh, Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria, will be having their annual
meeting at the Institute during September 2-3, 2010.
As a
part of this meeting, a workshop on Policies for Inclusion in India and
Beyond will be held on September 2-3, 2010.
The
workshop is in two parts. The first part, on the afternoon of Thursday 2
September, is a public event in which Professor Maitreesh Ghatak, London
School of Economics, UK, will deliver a talk on “Delivery of Public
Services: Models, Experiments and Policy”. In this meeting, Mr. S V
Ranganath, Chief Secretary, GoK and Prof. N Prabhu Deva, Vice
Chancellor, Bangalore University will participate.
The
second part of the workshop, on Friday 3 September, is a full day of
interaction between academics and policy-makers. There will be three
sessions: health insurance, empowerment, and Children and Schools. In
each of three sessions, academics will briefly summarise research
findings. A practitioner or policymaker will be invited to comment,
followed by open discussion.
