Gender and Growth Gaps in India - Research and Policy Dialogue 2024
A day-long dialogue in New Delhi on August 8, 2024, investigating gender as a dominant friction in India’s labor markets and exploring how policy can address this friction to better enable the country’s economic transformation.
Event details
- Gender and Growth Gaps in India – Research and Policy Dialogue (in-person event only)
- Date: Thursday, August 8, 2024
- Co-organisers: Inclusion Economics India Centre at the Institute for Financial Management and Research, the Institute of Economic Growth (IEG), the Yale Economic Growth Center, and Yale Inclusion Economics
- Location: India International Centre, Multipurpose Hall, Kamaladevi Complex, 40, Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Gardens, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi
- Conference program and Speaker bios link
Event description
Employment occupies centre-stage in many policy discussions across India today, and the matching of talent with opportunity is affected by frictions along many different lines, with gender being a dominant category of exclusion/friction. There are a number of critical issues that Indian policymakers are grappling with, at the state and central levels, in understanding the nature of growth processes unfolding in India today and its gendered patterns, how specific growth strategies and policies better enable structural transformation that allows talent to be matched with opportunity regardless of gender, critical institutions and incentives needed for environmental conservation that can enable long-term welfare and counter climate change, and how the dynamics in a changing economy that responds to climate breakdown and digitalisation might alleviate or reinforce long standing patterns of segregation by gender in the Indian economy.
Inclusion Economics India Centre at IFMR, the Economic Growth Center and Inclusion Economics at Yale University, in partnership with the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi (IEG), hosted a joint research and policy dialogue in New Delhi on Thursday, August 8, 2024, to dive into these questions. This was the second event focused on South Asia organized under the global ‘Gender and Growth Gaps’ project, housed at the Yale Economic Growth Center, and built on learnings from our first workshop held in August 2023 in Bengaluru.
The list of speakers at the event included: Dr. V. Anantha Nageswaran (Chief Economic Adviser, Government of India), Shri S Krishnan, IAS (Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India), Dr. Saurabh Garg, IAS (Secretary, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India), Shri Naresh C. Saxena (Former Secretary, Planning Commission of India), Rohini Pande (Yale University), Bina Agarwal (University of Manchester, UK, and Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi), Chetan Ghate (Institute of Economic Growth), Suhani Jalota (Hoover Institution), Saudamini Das (Institute of Economic Growth), Simone Schaner (University of Southern California), Michael Peters (Yale University – virtual presentation), Meet Mehta (Yale University), Lisa Ho (Yale Inclusion Economics), Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan (Yale Economic Growth Center), and Fabrizio Zilibotti (Yale University – virtual presentation).