Conferences & Workshops Details
International Conference onJOBS FOR DEVELOPMENT: CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS1-2 December 2014, Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi1st December 2014 (Monday) |
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| 10:00 hours | Registration |
| INAUGURAL SESSION | |
| 10:30 | Welcome Address Dr Rajat Kathuria, Director and Chief Executive, ICRIER, New Delhi |
| 10:45 |
Welcome remarks by Chairperson
Dr Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Chairperson, Board of Governors, ICRIER |
| 11:00 |
Opening Remarks
Dr Martin Rama, Chief Economist, The World Bank, New Delhi
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| 11:15 |
Employment and Entrepreneurship for Development
Mr Manish Sabharwal , Co-Founder and Chairman, Team Lease Services, Bangalore
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| 11:45 |
Thematic address
Smt Gauri Kumar, Secretary, Union Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India |
| 12:00 | Inaugural address Shri Rajiv Pratap Rudy (TBC) , Hon’ble Minister of State (Independent Charge), Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship and Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, Government of India |
| 12:30 |
Q&A / media interaction
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| 13:00 |
Lunch
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| SESSION 1: YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT | |
| 14:00[†] |
Chair:
Mr Mark Keese, Head, Employment, Analysis and Policy Division, Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD, Paris
Presenters:
Prof Dr Günther Schmid, Director, Labour Market Policy and Employment, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Berlin
Dr Niall O’Higgins, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Salerno, Italy Prof Arup Mitra and Dr Sher Verick, Professor of Economics, Institute for Economic Growth (IEG), New Delhi; and Senior Employment Specialist, ILO Decent Work Team for South Asia, New Delhi Discussant: Prof Alakh Narayan Sharma, Director, Institute for Human Development (IHD), New Delhi
Q&A |
| SESSION 2: GREEN JOBS AND SKILLS | |
| 15:45 |
Tea Break
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| 16:00 |
Chair: Mr Dilip Chenoy (TBC), Managing Director & CEO, National Skills Development Corporation, New Delhi
Presenters:
Dr Alex Bowen, Principal Research Fellow, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics (LSE)
Dr Vinod Kumar Sharma, Professor, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai
Dr Ritu Mathur, Senior Fellow, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi
Discussant:
Mr Pramod Bhasin, Chairman, The Skills Academy; Founder, Genpact
Q&A
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| 17:45 |
High Tea
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| SPECIAL ADDRESS: JOB CREATION IN INDIA – INTERNATIONAL LESSONS | |
| 18:00 | Welcome remarks Dr Rajat Kathuria, Director & Chief Executive, ICRIER, New Delhi |
| 18:15 | Special address Mr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Former Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, New Delhi |
| 19:00 | Q & A |
| 19:30 | Dinner |
2nd December 2014 (Tuesday) |
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| SESSION 3: LABOUR MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT | |
| 09:30 |
Chair: Documentary (5 mins) – India to Germany and Back: Reflections on Skilled Labour Migration Ms Pragya Taneja, Advisor, Migration for Development Programme, Competence in Motion Unit, GIZ, New Delhi Presenters: Dr Bilesha Weeraratne, Research Economist, Institute of Policy Studies (IPS), Colombo Prof Binod Khadria (Via Skype), Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi Discussant: |
| 11:15 | Tea Break |
| SESSION 4: JOB DISCRIMINATION | |
| 11:30 | Chair:
Prof Zoya Hasan, Former Professor and Dean, School of Social Sciences, JNU, New Delhi Presenters: Prof Barbara Harriss-White, Senior Research Fellow, Area Studies; Emeritus Professor of Development Studies, University of Oxford Dr Piotr Lewandowski, Founder and President of the Board, Institute for Structural Research (IBS), Warsaw Mr Benjamin Stanwix and Ms Karmen Naidoo, Senior Researcher, Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town and Researcher, Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town Discussant: Dr Arup Maharatna, Former Professor, Gokhale Instiute of Politics and Economics, Pune |
| 13:15 | Lunch |
| SESSION 5: SOCIAL PROTECTION AND LABOUR WELFARE | |
| 14:30 |
Chair: Dr Martin Rama, Chief Economist, The World Bank, New Delhi Presenters: Dr Albert Park, Director, Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS); Professor of Economics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong Dr David A Robalino, Lead Economist, Social Protection and Labor, The World Bank, Washington DC Prof Dev Nathan, Professor, Institute for Human Development (IHD), New Delhi; Visiting Research Fellow, Duke University, Durham Discussant: Mr Helmut Hauschild, Director, Indo-German Social Security Programme, GIZ, New Delhi |
| 16:15 | Tea Break |
| PANEL DISCUSSION: LABOUR PRACTICES IN SOUTH ASIA | |
| 16:30 |
Chair: Dr Duncan Campbell, Director of Research, ILO, Geneva Panelists: BhutanDasho Pema Wangda, Hon’ble Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Human Resources, Royal Government of Bhutan, Thimphu
NepalDr Bandita Sijapati, Research Director, Centre for the Study of Labour and Mobility, Kathmandu
AfghanistanDr Chona Echavez, Deputy Director, Research, Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU), Kabul Sri LankaDr Nisha Arunatilake, Research Fellow, IPS, Colombo
IndiaDr Deb Kusum Das, Reader, Department of Economics, University of Delhi; Consultant, ICRIER
DiscussantDr Edgard Rodriguez, Senior Program Specialist (Supporting Inclusive Growth), International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa
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| 19:00 | Vote of thanks Dr Rajat Kathuria, Director & CE, ICRIER |
| 19:05 | Dinner |
[†] Chairs, presenters and discussants will have 15 minutes each. 30 minutes have been allocated for Q&A.
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