The India Sustainable Growth Conference at LSE provides a forum for sharing ideas in this space, as well as inviting discussion and debate. The Department of Economics are delighted to support this conference alongside the CAGE Research Centre, LSE and the International Growth Centre.

Creating a sustainable growth strategy for India

Date: Friday 3 May, 18:00 - 19:30
Venue: Online and the Old Theatre, LSE

Programme

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 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 Camp designed to provide PhD students from all fields of economics the opportunity to present new research on environmental issues.

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

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