Does Political Empowerment Explain Closing Wage Gaps?

FORA TV 2015-01-03

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Does Political Empowerment Explain Closing Wage Gaps?
Columbia University Program on Indian Economic Policies - Columbia University
Academic experts on India discuss reforms aimed at curbing poverty and inequality among the nation's socially disadvantaged.

CHAIR: N.K. Singh, Member of Parliament, India

Paper 1: Growth, Openness and the Socially Disadvantaged, Megha Mukim (LSE) and Arvind Panagariya (Columbia)

Paper 2: The Post-reform Narrowing of Inequality Across Castes: Evidence from the States, Viktoria Hnatkovska and Amartya Lahiri (UBC)

Discussant 1: Mary Lovely, Syracuse

Discussant 2: Pravin Krishna, Johns Hopkins

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