CAGE are delighted to be supporting this public conference with the International Growth Centre from 2nd to 4th May 2024.

Lifting millions out of poverty in India requires rapid economic growth and energy use. At the same time, environmental pollution and climate change create significant barriers to success.

Understanding how to overcome both these challenges at the same time is one of the most important policy problems facing India. It is also a problem that confronts many other developing countries whose policymakers may look to India’s choices for guidance. Any solutions will require increasing support for innovative, applied research within India and building collaborative international networks of researchers interested in this problem.

The India Sustainable Growth Conference at LSE provides a forum for sharing ideas in this space, as well as inviting discussion and debate. Jointly organised by the International Growth Centre (IGC), LSE STICERD’s Economics of Environment and Energy Programme, University of Warwick and Indian Statistical Institute, the conference aims to bring together PhD students from across the world working on environmental economics, and leading faculty also working at the intersection of environment and economics in India, alongside policymakers in India. It follows on from LSE’s Environment CampLink opens in a new window designed to provide PhD students from all fields of economics the opportunity to present new research on environmental issues.

Creating a sustainable growth strategy for India

Date: Friday 3 May, 18:00 - 19:30

Venue: Online and the Old Theatre, LSE

Speakers

• Shamika Ravi - Secretary to the Government of India and Member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, Government of India
• Balaji Srinivasan - Chair of the EPIC Asia Advisory Group, Member of Management Board, Ahmedabad University
• Janhavi Nilekani - Founder and Chairperson, Aastrika Foundation
• Anant Sudarshan - Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Warwick
• Robin Burgess - Director, IGC and Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
• Stéphane Hallegatte - Senior Climate Change Adviser, Climate Change, World Bank

India is the most populated country in the world with one of the most dynamic economies. It also faces environmental damage due to climate change. Lifting millions out of poverty in India requires rapid economic growth but environmental challenges pose a significant barrier to this. Innovative research and policy can help India navigate towards sustainable growth and provide a global model for these pathways for the world. Bringing together policymakers, funders and researchers, we will discuss and debate how to build a movement around the promotion of sustainable growth in India, and mark the beginning of a collaboration between LSE and the Indian Statistical Institute in this space.

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You can register for either in-person or online attendance using the links below.

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A three-day Summer School which will provide a comprehensive introduction to the tools and systems needed for applied social science research.

Organiser: Professor Mirko Draca, University of Warwick (CAGE Director)

Lecturers/Presenters: Arthur Turrell (Bank of England), Eric Melander (Birmingham), Peter John Lambert (LSE), Marie Segger (The Economist magazine).

PROGRAMME TBC

The summer school will cover the following topics: -

• Coding for Economists: Organising a professional coding workflow using Github and Python.
• Data Management and Analysis: Case studies on how to put together complex repeated cross-section and panel datasets, along with how to present and analyse them.
• Digitisation of Historical Data: Converting hard copy tabular and text data into electronic form. How to employ OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tools and what you can do when those methods won’t work. How to use GIS (Geographic Information System) techniques to extract spatial data from maps. Using non-standard approaches to measure historical phenomena.
• Working on the Cloud: Your desktop machine is too slow so you have to move to cloud computing. We’ll provide a guide to setting up and running big data analysis on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Using LLMs in Economics Research: Large-language Models are all the rage. We’ll show how they can be used to build new types of data, for example, the codification of large text databases into a structured form.
• Research Design: Faculty will present examples of their research and go under the surface to show the data construction, analysis and workflows that were involved in putting together a paper.
• Data Visualisation: How to build creative and well-designed data visualisations.

The timetable of the summer school will be organised around lectures in the first half of the day with research presentations / case studies in the second half. There’ll also be chances for hands-on and participatory work by students in the afternoon sessions.