Book Forum: “India, the Emerging Giant”

India, the world’s largest democracy, is also an emerging giant economy that has experimented with a wide range of economic policies in the sixty years of its independence. In the last two decades economic growth has finally taken off, and per capita incomes have risen significantly. Distinguished professor Arvind Panagariya, in his latest book, “India, the Emerging Giant”, undertakes a comprehensive account of policy making in India since the 1950s and of the role these policies played in determining India’s economic fate. It also addresses the question of how to ensure continued and even higher growth. Razeen Sally, Director of ECIPE, and professor Mathew Tharakan will comment and discuss this path breaking work, which constitutes a key to understanding the rise of India in the world economy.

15.00  Welcoming remarks by Fredrik Erixon, Director ECIPE

15.05 Introduction by the Chairman Professor Patrick Messerlin, GEM, Sciences Po

15.10 Book presentation by the author: “India, the Emerging Giant” Arvind Panagariya, Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of       Indian Political Economy and Professor of Economics in the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

16.00 Comments by Professor P.K.M. Tharakan, Professor Emeritus of the University of Antwerp

16.15 Open panel discussion

17.00 End

Coffee and refreshments will be served during the discussions

Registrations before the 14^th of April at info@ecipe.org