Seminar: Økonomiske relationer og udfordringer i Indien

Time: Friday, 1 April at 13 -15 hours

Venue: Danish Institute for International Studies, Main Auditorium, ground floor, Strandgade 71, Christianshavn, 1401 Kbn K

Background

Time: Friday, 1 April at 13 -15 hours

Venue: Danish Institute for International Studies, Main Auditorium, ground floor, Strandgade 71, Christianshavn, 1401 Kbn K

Background

There is a long-standing proposition that collaborative relations between the state and the business sector can be growth-enhancing. The empirical evidence in support of these findings has been predominantly drawn from East Asia and Latin America.

Can effective state-business relations be growth enhancing in an environment that is quite different from East Asian countries where the public bureaucracy had the basic features of Weberian-type bureaucracy and where the disciplining role of the state was strong enough to restrain rent-seeking behaviour on the part of private capital?

Professor Kunal Sen will discuss the growth effects of state-business relations at the sub-national level in India, a country where the ‘embedded autonomy’ of the developmental state observed in East Asia has been largely absent.

By looking at the evolution and forms of institutional interactions between Indian sub-national states and businesses, he will show why more effective state-business relations seem to have emerged in some Indian states and not in others.

Kunal Sen is Professor of Development Economics and Policy at the Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester, and Associate Director of the Brooks World Poverty Institute, UK. His current research examines the relationship between state-business relations and economic performance in Africa and India and the political economy of Indian growth.

Some of the current research has been carried out within the Department for International Development (DFID-UK) funded Improving Institutions for Pro-poor Growth (IPPG) Research Programme Consortium, based in the University of Manchester, of which he was the Joint Director. He has won the Sanjaya Lall Prize in 2006 and Dudley Seers Prize in 2003 for his publications.

Kunal Sen will give the third seminar in the Business-State Relations and Economic Development seminar series being held this spring at DIIS.

SPEAKERS
* Kunal Sen, Professor, University of Manchester, UK
* Lindsay Whitfield, Project Senior Researcher, DIIS

PROGRAMME

12.30-13.00
Arrival and Coffee

13.00-14.00
From Collusion to Collaboration? State-Business Relations and Economic Performance in India – Kunal Sen, Professor, University of Manchester, UK

14.00-15.00
Open Discussion

Chair: Lindsay Whitfield, Project Senior Researcher, DIIS

The seminar will be held in English.

Participation is free of charge, but registration is required. Please use the online registration form.

And do so no later than Tuesday, 31 March at 12.00 noon.

Please await confirmation by e-mail from DIIS for participation.

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), The Conference Section, Strandgade 56, 1401 Kbn K, tlf. 32 69 87 51, e-mail: [email protected] og web: www.diis.