IGIDR Annual Report 2008-2009 - Indira Gandhi Institute of ...

Faculty ActivitiesIGIDR – NCEUS (National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised sector) seminar on ‗‘Access to Financefor Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector,‘‘ October 18, 2008Organised Young Scholars‘ Programme (YSP-5) to strengthen State plans for Human Development project;supported by UNDP and Planning Commission. YSP-4 had 33 participants resident in IGIDR, drawn from all majorStates of India from a number of disciplines in Social Sciences and Humanities, Nov.10 –22, 2008Seminar on Women‘s Empowerment, IGIDR, in Collaboration with IPSCR as part of Young Scholar‘s Programme4, November 19, 2008Capacity Development Training Programme for Lecturers in Kabul University, Afghanistan, supported by UnitedDevelopment Nations Programme, March 16–28, 2009―Cluster Development and Poverty alleviation‖-Authored by Shovan Ray, Tamal Sarkar, Nikhil Mathur, SukanyaBanerjee and Sagnik Lahiri. UNIDO/MSME Clusters and Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC)Workshop on Clusters and Poverty Reduction, New Delhi, April 16-17, 2008. Discussant for 3 papers presented atthe conference and also addressed the panel for the conference on Human Development organised by University ofMaryland – NCAER International Conference on Measuring Human Development, India Habitat Centre, NewDelhi, May 16-18, 2008CUTS Centre for International Trade, Economics and Environment (CITEE) conference on ―Towards a CoherentTrade and Development Strategy of India,‖ India Habitat Centre, Delhi. Discussant for the paper Regional TradeOpenness Index, Income Disparity and Poverty – An Experiment with Indian Data written by Sugata Marjit andSaibal Kar with the support of Royal Norwegian Embassy, New Delhi, and published by CUTS International. (July24-25, 2008)Reddy Sudhakara BPresented a paper on ―Individual behavior in a social context - Improving assumptions, theories and models‖ at 6thBiennial International Workshop on Energy Studies, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria, June 29 to July2, 2008Presented a paper on ―Clean Development and the role of energy efficiency‖ at the Asia-Pacific Finance andDevelopment Center (AFDC) 2008 Biennial Forum, co-organised by the AFDC and the World Bank, Shanghai,October 25-26, 2008Presented a paper on ―Energy and Sustainable Development‖ at the International Conference on Applied Energy,Hong Kong, January 2009Presented a paper ―India‘s Energy Security‖ during the seminar on ‗India and Russia: Problems in Ensuring theEnergy Security,‘ the Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad February 24–26, 2009Presented a paper on ―Preparation and Monitoring of Socio-Economic Status of the community in the coal miningproject Area – An Indicator Approach,‖ at the Coal India Ltd, Ranchi, March 2-3, 2009Presented a paper on ―Energy efficiency and climate change,‖ at a one-day seminar on ―Current Management Issuesand Challenges‖ organised in commemoration of 60 th Year of the Department of Management Studies and theCentenary Year of Indian Institute of Science, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, April 3, 2009Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research 37