Institute for Social and Economic Change
The Institute in collaboration with Cornell University, Ithaca, USA organised a conference on "Development in Karnataka: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective" from June 10 -12, 2005 with the idea of providing a forum where research on a wide range of issues related to Karnataka could be shared with policy makers, researchers and civil society. Participants representing a range of social science disciplines came from different parts of India and also from Norway, Germany, UK and USA
The conference was inaugurated by the State Minister for Industry Mr PGR Sindhia, who also conveyed a written message from the Chief Minister, Mr. Dharam Singh.
Papers presented during the conference.
June 11th Saturday
Keynote address
Political
Selection and the Quality of Government: Evidence from South India
Timothy Besley, London School of Economics, t.besley@lse.ac.uk
Co-authored with Rohini Pande , Yale University and Vijayendra Rao, The World Bank
Technical Session 1: Economic and Political Dynamics
Change in Rural Karnataka Over the Last
Generation: Villages and Broader Context
James Manor, IDS, University of Sussex, j.manor@ids.ac.uk
Political Leadership and Economic Development in
Karnataka
Gujjarappa Thimmaiah, ISEC, kunnikere@yahoo.com
Ideological Elements and Political
Instability in Karnataka: Janata Dal in the late 1990s.
Pamela Price, University of Oslo, p.g.price@hi.uio.no
Technical Session 2: Local Development
Dynamics of Local Governance in Karnataka
Kripa Ananthpur, Madras Institute of Development Studies, kripa@mids.ac.in
Corruption and Local Governance: Evidence
From Karnataka.
V. Vijayalakshmi, Consultant Sociologist, vijayalakshmi@vsnl.com
Ananda Vadivelu, Institute for Social and Economic Change, (ISEC) vadivelu26@rediffmail.com
Keynote address
Institutionalising Citizen Participation in Urban
Governance
Ramesh Ramanathan, Janaagraha, ramesh@janaagraha.org
Technical Session 3: Projects and Policies
Participation in a School Program in KarnatakaSharon Barnhardt, Harvard University; Dean Karlan, Princeton University; Stuti Khemani, The world bank. Email: Sharon_Barnhardt@ksgphd.harvard.edu Agrarian Reform for a Liberal Pattern of Society? Karnataka’s Land Policy and the New Dispensation.
Ronald Herring, Cornell University, rjh5@cornell.edu
Technical Session 4: Projects and Policies (Continued)
The Karnataka Yeshasvini Health Insurance
Scheme & Peasants: Towards Comprehensive Health Insurance Coverage for Karnataka?
Sarosh Kuruvilla, Cornell University; Mingwei Liu, Cornell University and Priti Jacob,
Narayana Hrudayalaya Hospital,Bangalore. Email: sck4@cornell.edu
D. Rajashekhar, Suchitra J Y, Madheswaran S and G K Karanth, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Email: raja@isec.ac.in
Technical Session 5: Civil Society and the Public Sphere
Democracy
and Evasive Silences: A Preliminary Report on the Public Sphere in Karnataka
Dattathreya Subbanarasimha, Columbia University, dcs117@columbia.edu
Communication,
Uneasy Partnerships: NGO-State Relationships in
Karnataka
Neema Kudva, Cornell University, nk78@cornell.edu
June 12th Sunday
Keynote address
To be or not to be? Women's location in public policyDevaki Jain, lcjain@bgl.vsnl.net.in
Technical Session 6: Gender, Population and Health
Systematic Hierarchies and Systemic Failures: Gender and Health Inequities in Koppal DistrictGita Sen, Asha George and Aditi Iyer, IIM Bangalore, gita@iimb.ernet.in A Comparative Analysis of Fertility and Education in the Parts of Karnataka, Maharashtra and AP that Belonged to Hyderabad State.
Mari Bhat, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, mari@iegindia.org
Technical Session 7: Gender, Population and Health (continued)
Reproductive Health Services and the Role of Panchayats in KarnatakaPoornima Vyasulu, CBPS, Bangalore and Vijayalakshmi,V., Consultant Sociologist, Email: poornima@cbpsindia.com
Social Mobility in the Context of
Occupational Health: The Case of Silk Reeling
Anand Inbanathan, Institute for Social and Economic Change, anand@isec.ac.in
Technical Session 8: IT and ICT
Social Capital, Diversity and (Economic)
Development: Evidence from the Indian IT Industry in Bangalore
Florian Taeube, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, taeube@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de
ICT Sector and Regional
Economic Development: Evidence from Karnataka State
M. R. Narayana, Institute for Social and Economic Change, mrn@isec.ac.in