New York: India's Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath will join other experts and economists at Columbia University over the weekend as it debates India's emerging role in the global economy.
Nath will deliver the keynote address at a three-day conference, "India: An Emerging Giant", jointly hosted by the Columbia Business School and the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) Oct 13-15, according to a university press release.
Other featured speakers include Arun Shourie, former minister for disinvestments, communications and information technology, Govinda Rao, director of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy and member of the prime minister's Economic Advisory Council, Ronen Sen, the Indian ambassador to the US, and Frank Wisner, former US ambassador to India.
Glenn Hubbard, Dean and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics in the Columbia Business School, Columbia University professors Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya and other professors from Yale, Berkeley, Delhi, Stanford and MIT will represent the academic world.
Topics of discussion include: India: Past, Present and Future; Transforming India; Fiscal Consolidation and Systemic Reforms; Infrastructure Bottlenecks: Electricity; Poverty, Inequality and Economic Reforms; Information Technology and Outsourcing; Electoral Politics and Economic Prospects.
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