LILA-PRISM Lecture 4 "Incorporation and Exclusion in the Indian Economy" by Prof. Jayati Ghosh at Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road > 7pm on 11th September 2013

Time : 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

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Place : Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
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Event Description : 'Incorporation and Exclusion in the Indian Economy' LILA-PRISM Lecture 4 by Prof. Jayati Ghosh.
“Incorporation and Exclusion in the Indian Economy” argues that many of the current debates around the absence of inclusive growth in India miss a basic point. For many peasants, workers, unrecognized women workers and others, exclusion from the benefits of growth has not meant exclusion from the system as such. Rather, the excluded have been affected precisely because they have been incorporated into market systems based on unequal power relations. Recent growth has relied on the ability of employers in India to use the complex nexus with governments at different levels to appropriate land and other natural resources and to utilise social characteristics (caste, gender, etc) to create segmented labour markets that maximize surplus extraction. This has created a peculiar hybrid form of capitalism that does not encourage innovation or aggregate productivity increases.

Jayati Ghosh is Professor of Economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, JNU, New Delhi. Since 2002 she has been the Executive Secretary of International Development Economics Associates (IDEAS), an international network of heterodox development economists. She is Founding Trustee of the Economic Research Foundation. Her current research interests include globalisation, international trade and finance, employment patterns in developing countries, macroeconomic policy, issues related to gender and development, and the implications of recent growth in China and India. Recent books include Work and well being in the age of finance (Tulika Books, New Delhi), The market that failed: Neoliberal economic reforms in India (Leftword Books, New Delhi), Tracking the macroeconomy (ICFAI University Press, Hyderabad), Never done and poorly paid: Women’s work in globalising India (Women Unlimited, New Delhi) and After Crisis: Adjustment, recovery and fragility in East Asia (Tulika Books, New Delhi).

Background : LILA PRISM Lecture Series 2013 is an attempt to explore some major fields of knowledge in the developmental context of contemporary India. This initiative is already finding support and following in India and abroad. The 16 speakers, beyond rigorously discussing their specific topics, will share with us the dream of a society in which creative efforts and meaningful results are integrally connected. They will not only pose key questions that must awaken policy makers, but also share their suggestions to link their disciplinary sites with the lives of common people, in a non-intrusive and creative way.

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