Workshopon
Japanese Perspectives on
India’s Economic Development
Wednesday, February 6, 2013, 10:30 am - 5:00 pm
Conference Room, NCAER
Abstract: India is one of the worlds’ most populous and fastest growing economies.
It is increasing its presence in the world economy by expanding cross-border transactions ofgoods, capital, labour and information. India’s rapid growth has significant implications not
only for its domestic society but also the global community. There has been a surge ofinterest in Japan in India’s economic development prospects, partially reflecting theimplementation of the India-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement andthe Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Project.
India also faces serious domestic issues, including chronic poverty, income disparity, gender
gap, corruption, environmental deterioration, food-security, inefficient resource allocation,and persistent underemployment. In Japan many specialists on the Indian economy havestudied these issues for a long time, producing high-quality papers on several of these topics.
It is difficult for Indian scholars to access these studies since most of them are in Japanese.
This unique workshop, sponsored jointly by NCAER and the Research Institute for
Economics and Business Administration (RIEB) of Kobe University, aims to overcome thisdifficulty and enable Japanese and Indian scholars and practitioners to exchange views on
the nature and implications of India’s economic development and its political economy.
RIEB boasts the longest history of all social science research institutes affiliated to national
universities in Japan. It is also the only university research institute in Japan to focus on thedual fields of economics and business administration.
Programme
10:30

Registration and Tea

11:00

Opening Remarks
Dr Shekhar Shah, Director-General, NCAER

11:10 - 12:50

Industrial Productivity
Chairperson: Dr Ram Upendra Das, Senior Fellow, RISThe Impact of Informality on Productivity in the Indian
Manufacturing: Evidence from Annual Survey ofIndustries and National Sample Survey
Mr Manabu Furuta, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto
UniversityIndia

13:00 - 14:00
14:00 - 15:50

Productivity Dynamics and Rural Industrialization in
Dr Takahiro Sato, Professor, Research Institute for Economics
and Business Administration (RIEB), Kobe University
Lunch
Labour Markets
Chairperson: Dr Ram Gopal Agarwala, Distinguished Fellow,
RIS & Former World Bank Consultant
Indian Labour Markets and Returns to Education, 1983
to 2009-10
Dr Takahiro Sato

Indian People and Their Labour in Economic
Development
Dr Junko Kiso, Professor, Faculty of Global and Inter-culturalStudies, Ferris University
15:50 - 16:00

Tea Break

16:00 - 16:50

Political Economy:
Chairperson: Dr Aradhna Aggarwal, Senior Fellow, NCAER
The Burden of Public Inaction: Agrarian Impasse in'Growing' Bihar
Dr Kazuki Minato, Research Fellow, Institute of Developing
Economies

16:50 - 17:00

Closing Remarks

For queries, please contact Ms Sudesh Bala at sbala@ncaer.org or on 011-2345-2669.

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