Dear all,

 

The presentations from the "Global Conference for Prosperity, Equality, and Sustainability - Perspectives and Policies for a Better World", held in New Delhi, are now available on C4D (list of documents below). For the full program and additional information please see:

• http://www.worldbank.org/en/events/2016/05/16/prosperity-equality-and-sustainability-perspectives-and-policies-for-a-better-world
• And: http://www.ihdindia.org/pesconference/

 

DAY 1: June 1^st, 2016

 

Thematic Session 1.1: Jobs and Economic Security

 

• "Do Imports Create Better Jobs in Africa? Evidence from Firm-Level Data" (Marta Duda-Nyczak & Christian Viegelahn)
• "More Jobs, Better Jobs: A Priority for Egypt" (Tara Vishwanath)
• "The Role of Social Transfers & Rural Development Policies for Brazil’s Small-holding Farmers" (Pedro Arruda)
• "Female Labour Supply in Bangladesh: Continuity and Change" (Simeen Mahmud & Sayema Haque Bidisha)
• "Employment, Wages and Inequality in India: An Occupations and Tasks-based Approach" (Shruti Sharma)

 

Thematic Session 2.1: Education for Capability Expansion

 

• "Value for Money from Public Expenditure on Education in India" (Geeta Gandhi Kingdon)
• "Effect of Marital Age on Women’s Educational Attainment in Bangladesh" (Islam/Islam/Hasan/Haque)
• "Intergenerational Transfer of Education among Social Groups in India" (Palashpriya Halder & Ishita Mukhopadhyay)

 

Thematic Session 5.1: Challenge of Improving Environment

 

• "Climate Change and Anthropogenic Contributions to Uncertainties in Hydrological Modelling of Sustainable Water Supply" (Roman Corobov)
• "Index Disaster Preparedness Measurement" (Rachmad/Widaryatmo/Surbakti)
• "The Impact of Rural Poverty on Environment: Evidence from Sundarbans in India" (Chandan Roy)
• "Coping through Credit: Effect of Microfinance on Informal Lending after Disasters" (Pankhuri Jha & Syed Ahsan)

 

Thematic Session: 6.1: Strengthening Social Protection

 

• "The Quest for Achieving Social Protection for All in Nepal" (Bandita Sijapati)
• "Child Deprivation in India, 2013-14: Evidence from Rapid Survey of Children" (Aalok Ranjan Chaurasia)
• "Protecting the Protected: An Analysis of Labor Market Outcomes and Livelihood Security in Kashmir" (Mushtaq Ahmad Malla)
• "Some Dimensions of Vulnerability: A Study of the Urban Poor with Reference to Kolkata" (Saswati Chaudhuri)

 

Thematic Session 7.1: Social Inclusion

 

• "Occupational Segregation by Race in South Africa after the Apartheid" (Carlos Gradín)
• "Development and Exclusion: Intergenerational Stickiness in India" (Rajarshi Majumder & Jhilam Ray)
• "Public Goods Provision and Upward Intergenerational Occupational Mobility: Empirical Evidence from China" (Li/Alakshendra/Lu/Xiong)
• "Human Inclusion as Capability Expansion" (Iris Macculi)

 

 

DAY 2: June 2^nd, 2016

 

Thematic Session 1.2: Jobs and Economic Security

 

• "Inclusive and Sustainable Development in Emerging Countries: Integrating the Modern and the Lagging Sectors" (Indira Hirway)
• "Labour Productivity and decent employment in rural Tanzania" (Conforti/Estrutch/Spiezio/Nico)
• "Exports, Imports and Decent Jobs in South Asia: Evidence from firm level data" (Christian Viegelahn)
• "The Spillover Effects of Public Investment: Implications for the Formal and Informal Sector Firms in India"
• "The Impact of Reservations for Women in Public Employment in India" (Neha Prashar)

 

Thematic Session 2.2: Education for Capability Expansion

 

• "Demographic Transition, Public Expenditure on Education and Economic Growth: New Macroeconomic Evidence From India" (M.R. Narayana)
• "Understanding Educational Inequalities among the Socio-Economically Marginalised in India" (Usharani Rathinam)
• "Presence of Measuring Horizontal Education Inequality in Bodoland Territorial Area Districts (BTAD) of Assam" (Rupan Boro & Rajshree Bedamatta)
• "Expansion in Education, and Its Impact on Income Inequality: Cross-Section Evidence from India" (Vachaspati Shukla)

 

Thematic Session 3.1: Food and Nutritional Security

 

• "How Consumer Price Subsidies Affect Nutrition" (Neeraj Kaushal & Felix Muchomba)
• "Family Planning and Its Association with Nutritional Status of Women: Investigation in Select South Asian Countries" (Juel Rana & Srinivas Goli)
• "Answers to India’s Child Malnutrition Paradox: The Positive Deviance Model" (Sinha/McRoy/Berkman/Sutherland)
• "Access to Food, Poverty and Inequality by Social and Religious Groups in India: Estimation with Unit Level Data" (Panchanan Das & Anindita Sengupta)

 

Thematic Session 4.1: Building Healthy Lives

 

• "Explaining the Variation in Health and Nutrition Outcomes in Bangladesh’s Cities" (Raju/Govindaraj/Nguyen)
• "Emergency Referral Transport and Community Awareness and Its Impact on Maternal and Neonatal Mortality: A Case Study from Uttar Prad" (Charan Verma)
• "Policy or Perception? Women’s Political Liberalization on Sex-Selection in India" (Nabaneeta Biswas)
• "How Health Behaviour Affects Depression Across Different Age and Gender Cohorts in India" (Reshmi Sengupta)
• "Socio-Economic Inequalities in Maternal and Child Health Care in Selected South Asian Countries" (Lubna Naz)

 

Thematic Panel 1: Governance for Sustainability in Global Value Chains

 

• "Large Retailers’ Role in Governance for Sustainable Production: The Case of Cotton Garments" (Rachel Alexander)
• "Governance of Sustainable Informal E-waste Management: The Indian Reality" (Somjita Laha)
• "Standards as Drivers of Sustainable Development Processes: The Case of 'Fair Trade in Tourism'” (Annika Surmeier)
• "The rise of ‘Southern’ social standards in India: the case of the tea industry" (Natalie Langford)

 

Thematic Session 3.2: Food and Nutritional Security

 

• "Livelihood and Food Security amongst Some Vulnerable Groups in Jharkhand" (Ramesh Sharan)
• "Indigenous Communication Forms and their Potential to Convey Food Security Messages In Rural Ethiopia" (Hagos Nigussie Kahssay)
• "Revisiting the Determinants of Child Anthropometric Indicators in India Using Seemingly Unrelated Regressions Mode" (Naline Gandhi & Brinda Viswanathan)

 

Thematic Session: 5.2: Challenge of Improving Environment

 

• "Pune Burden of Diseases Due to Air Pollution in Urban India" (Ghatak/Nandy/Siddhanta)
• "Sustainable Development and the Politics of the Governance of Natural Resources: Analyzing the Peruvian ASM Industry" (Alejandra Villanueva)
• "Co-development and Co-evolution: Towards an Economics for the Anthropocene" (Dev Nathan)

 

Thematic Session: 6.2: Strengthening Social Protection

 

• "Growth and Development Finance Required for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Africa" (Chinzana/Kedir/Sandjong)
• "Fiscal Policy Incidence: Evidence from Tunisia" (Ahmed Moummi)
• "Disability Indicators for the SDGs and its Relevance for India" (Surajit Deb)
• "Gender Implications for Social Safety Nets in Afghanistan" (Matthew Morton)
• "Spatial Analysis of Structural Determinants of Child Poverty Incidences in Nigeria" (Olagunju Kehinde Oluseyi & Ogunniyi Adebayo)

 

Thematic Session: 7.2: Social Inclusion

 

• "Marginalization and Adverse-Inclusion in India’s Urban Labour-Markets: A Gender-Caste-Community Approach" (Simin Akhter Naqvi)
• "Medical Management of Intersexuality and Marginalization of Non-Normative Gender Identities" (Asilata Karandikar)
• "Understanding Gender in Maldives: Toward Inclusive Development" (Jana El-Horr & Rohini Prabha Pande)

 

Thematic Panel 2: Sustainability and Inclusive Urban Development in Global Perspective

 

• "Regional collaboration & sharing: pathway to sustainable, just & inclusive cities in Europe" (Andrea Frank)
• "Inclusive Urbanization in the 21st Century China" (Jieming Zhu)
• "PES South Africa" (Brian Boshoff)
• "Can Slum-Free India be Inclusive India?" (Abhinav Alakshendra)

 

 

DAY 3: June 3rd, 2016

 

Thematic Session: 1.3: Jobs and Economic Security

 

• "Who Creates Jobs? Is There a Role for Start-ups?" (Ejaz Ghani)
• "Towards Building an Inclusive Society: Focus on the New State of Telangana" (Amir Ullah Khan & Tanweer Alam)
• "Monitoring National Laws and Policies as a Tool to Achieve Goals" (Willetta Waisath)

 

Thematic Session 3.3: Food and Nutritional Security

 

• "Enhancement of Finger Millet Production for the Food and Nutrition Security of Tribal Community in Koraput" (Akshaya Kumar et al.)
• "Food and Nutrition Security in Nepal: Status, Trends and Challenges" (Anjani Kumar et al.)
• "The Impact of the Public Distribution System in India – A State-Level Analysis" (Anjana Thampi)
• "Two Decades of Geographical Targeting for Food Distribution: Drawing Lessons from India" (Rajshree Bedamatta)

 

Thematic Session 4.2: Building Healthy Lives

 

• "Equity and Health Implications of Sin Tax Reform: Strengthening the Dialogue in EAP" (Caryn Bredenkamp)
• "Opportunities for Early Childhood Development in Arab Countries" (Vladimir Hlasny & Vito Intini)
• "Social Connections and Health Insurance Utilization" (Sisir Debnath et al.)
• "Income Inequality and Population Health Outcomes in Developing Countries" (Anil Methipara)
• "Effects of Remittances on Health Expenditure and Types of Treatment of International Migrants’ Households in Bangladesh" (Mohammad Mainul Islam at al.)
• "Dynamics of Impoverishment and Health Care Payments in Nepal" (Shiva Raj Adhikari & Vishnu Prasad Sapkota)

 

Thematic Session: 7.3: Social Inclusion

 

• "Exclusionary Urban Space: Class, Gender and Marginalities in Delhi" (Bhim Reddy & Manoj B. Balsamanta)
• "Rural Road Development in India: Distribution of PMGSY Project Benefits among Women, Youth, and Scheduled Caste and Tribes" (Sangeeta Kumari)
• "Indian IT Workers in the U.S. and Their Transnational Practices" (Uma Sarmistha)
• "Encouraging Affirmative Action in the Private Sector in India" (Abdul Muheet Chowdhary)