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LAUSANNE SUMMER SCHOOL
CACS EPFL
Optional reading
Reis, N. (2012). “Global policy ideas: the operation on the image of the state”. In Tracing and making the
state: Policy practices and domestic water supply in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam, Chapter 5, Berlin: LIT,
pp. 165-194.
Bakker, K., Kooy M., Nur Endah S. and Martijn, E-J. (2008). “Governance Failure: Rethinking the Institutional
Dimensions of Urban Water Supply to Poor Households”. World Development, vol. 36, n° 10, pp.
1891–1915.
Special Issue (forthcoming 2013). In Water Alternatives on “Trends and Developments in Rural Water
Supply Services Delivery”.
FRIDAY 12 JULY
Politics and social foundations of economic development
09:00 >12.30 India after Independence
Kaushik Basu
An initial session will be devoted to understanding the social, political and cultural
embeddedness of the Indian economy, paying special attention to the political
constraints within which India operates and the strengths and weaknesses of this
mooring. Contemporary India faces the challenge of trying to achieve high growth
with social justice – inclusive growth, as the present government calls it. What are
the policy instruments available for these objectives and what are the prospects
of the Indian economy? The lectures will give a quick history and then focus on
contemporary times, including the story of India’s globalization and handling of the
Eurozone crisis.
12:30 >14:00 Lunch
14:00 >15:00 India after Independence (continued)
Kaushik Basu
15:00 >16:00 Wrap up
16:00 >17:00 Evaluation module I
Compulsory reading
Basu K., (2004). “The Indian economy up to 1991 and since”. In K. Basu (ed). India’s Emerging Economy:
Performance and Prospects, Chapter 1, Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, pp. 3-32.
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