PROGRAMME
December 13-15, 2019
Neemrana Fort-Palace, Rajasthan
Day 1: Friday, December 13
1:30 pm: Minister’s address by Nirmala Sitharaman, Honorable Finance Minister, Government of India followed by lunch at the Finance Minister’s residence
3 pm: Departure for Neemrana Fort
7:00 pm: Welcome Remarks
Rajat Kathuria, Director & CE, ICRIER
7:10 pm: Tribute to Martin Feldstein
N. K. Singh, Chairman, 15th Finance Commission, Government of India
James Poterba, President, NBER; Mitsui Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Anne O. Krueger, Senior Research Professor of International Economics, School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; Senior Fellow at the Stanford Center for International Development, Stanford University
7.30 pm: India and the US Economy
Speakers:
Anne O. Krueger, Senior Research Professor of International Economics, School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; Senior Fellow at the Stanford Centre for International Development, Stanford University – Update on US-China trade
Surjit S. Bhalla, IMF Executive Director representing India, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Sri Lanka; Member, Board of Governors, NCAER – High Level Advisory Group (HLAG report)
8:15 pm Cultural Event followed by dinner
Day 2: Saturday, December 14
9 am: Session 1: The World Economy
Chair:
Uday Kotak, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Kotak Mahindra Bank; Member, Board of Governors, ICRIER
Speakers:
Charles Engel, Donald Hester Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
John Lipsky, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Institute, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University; Peterson Distinguished Scholar, SAIS Kissinger Center
Stephen Redding, Harold T. Shapiro *64 Professor in Economics, Economics Department and Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
10:30 am: Tea/Coffee Break
10:45 am: Session 2: Federal Finance Framework
Chair:
N. K. Singh, Chairman, 15th Finance Commission, Government of India
Speakers:
Varadarajan V. Chari, Professor of Economics and the Paul W. Frenzel Land Grant Professor of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota
Prachi Mishra, Managing Director in Global Macro Research and India Chief Economist, Goldman Sachs, Mumbai
Karthik Muralidharan, Tata Chancellor’s Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego
12:15 pm: Tea/Coffee Break
12:30 pm: Keynote Address
Raghuram G. Rajan, Former Governor, RBI; Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Chair:
Rakesh Mohan, Senior Fellow, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University; Former Deputy Governor, RBI
Discussion
1:15 pm: Lunch
2:15 pm: Session 3: Growth, Inequality, and Inclusion
Chair:
Shankar Acharya, Honorary Professor, ICRIER
Speakers:
Rakesh Mohan, Senior Fellow, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University; Former Deputy Governor, RBI
Chetan Ghate, Professor, Economics and Planning Unit (EPU), Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi Centre
Sonalde Desai, Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland; Professor and Centre Director , NCAER-National Data Innovation Center, New Delhi
3:30 pm Tea/ Coffee Break
3:45 pm: Session 4: Urbanisation
Chair:
Rajat Kathuria, Director & CE, ICRIER
Speakers:
Edward Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
Rana Hasan, Director, Economic Analysis and Operational Support Division, Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Partha Mukhopadhyay, Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research
5 pm: Tea/Coffee Break
5:15 pm: Session 5: Public Finance and the Macroeconomy
Chair:
Alok Sheel, RBI Chair Professor in Macroeconomics, ICRIER
Speakers:
Alan J. Auerbach, Robert D. Burch Professor of Economics and Law and Director of the Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance, University of California, Berkeley
Ashok Lahiri, Member, Fifteenth Finance Commission of India; Former Executive Director, Asian Development Bank (ADB)
James Poterba, President, NBER; Mitsui Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Rema Hanna, Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies and Chair of the International Development Area, Harvard Kennedy School
6.45 pm: Tea/Coffee Break
7 pm: Dinner Address by Arvind Subramanian, Former Chief Economic Advisor, Government of India –India: Diagnostics and Prescriptions
8 pm Dinner
Day 3: Sunday, December 15
9 am: Session 6: Labour Market and the Challenge of Job Creation
Chair:
Radhicka Kapoor, Senior Fellow, ICRIER
Speakers:
Marianne Bertrand, Chris P. Dialynas Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Michael Peters, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Yale University
Surjit S. Bhalla, IMF Executive Director representing India, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Sri Lanka; Member, Board of Governors, NCAER
10:15 am Tea/Coffee Break
10:30 am Session 7: Education and Skill Development
Chair:
Pramod Bhasin, Founder, Genpact Ltd.; Chairman, Clix Capital Services;
Member, Board of Governors, ICRIER
Speakers:
Karthik Muralidharan, Tata Chancellor’s Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego
Parag Pathak, Jane Berkowitz Carlton and Dennis William Carlton Professor of Microeconomics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Neeraj Kaushal, Professor of Social Policy, Columbia University; Research Fellow, IZA – Institute of Labor Economics, Germany
11.45 am Tea/Coffee Break
12 pm: Session 8: Health and Economic Growth
Chair:
Shekhar Shah, Director-General, NCAER
Speakers:
Kathleen McGarry, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles
Indu Bhushan, CEO, Ayushman Bharat and National Health Authority (NHA)
Ali Mehdi, Senior Fellow, ICRIER
1.15 pm: Lunch
3 pm: Departures