10.15 AM-12.45 PM: Session 1: Poverty, Inequality, Occupational Structure
Chair: Aditya Bhattacharjea (DSE)

• Jyotsna Jalan (CSSS) and Rinku Murgai (World Bank): “An Effective “Targeting Shortcut”? An Assessment of the 2002 Below-Poverty Line Census Method”
• Nicolas Gravel (Centre des Sciences Humaines, New Delhi) and Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay (ISI, Delhi): “Is India Better off Today than it was 15 years ago? A Multidimensional Dominance Answer”
• Himanshu (Centre des Sciences Humaines, New Delhi): "Employment Trends in India: A Re-Examination".
  

• Subrata Guha(JNU): “Some Properties of Transition in the Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans Growth Model”
• Priyodorshi Banerjee (ISI, Delhi): “Conflict and Consensus: A Theory of Control in Organisations”
• Brati Shankar Chakraborty and Abhirup Sarkar (ISI, Kolkata): “Trade, Wage Inequality and Vent for Surplus”.
  

5 PM: Plenary Session
Chair: Bhaskar Dutta (University of Warwick)

• Mukesh Eswaran (University of British Columbia):"How Does Poverty Decline? Some Suggestive Evidence from India, 1983-1999"
  

• Sanghamitra Das, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay(ISI, Delhi) and Tridip Ray: "A Quantitative Analysis of Subjective Well-Being: The HIV/AIDS Experience in India".
• Brinda Vishwanathan (MSE): "Nutritional Status and Security in India: Evidence and Issues"
  

• B.N. Goldar and Meenakshi Ghosh (IEG): “Factors determining Child Mortality in Urban India: An Econometric Analysis”
• Sanghamitra Das, J.V. Meenakhshi and Rekha Sharma (D.U.): “The Determinants of Nutritional Status of Children in Rural India”
  

• Rohini Somanathan (DSE): “Microfinance and the Poor”
• Niranjan Sarangi (JNU): “Microfinance and Rural Poor in India: Impact Assessment based on Fieldwork in Madhya Pradesh”
• Aparna Krishnan (IFMR): Financial Services for the Poor: Rainfall Insurance in India
  

5.30 PM: Plenary Session
Chair: Kanchan Chopra (IEG)

• Abhijit Sen (Planning Commission and JNU)
  

• Subhrendu Pattanayak (RTI International and University of California, Berkeley): “Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Rural India: Towards a theory of economics of environmental epidemiology"
• E. Somanathan (ISI, Delhi): “Awareness and the Demand for Environmental Quality: Water quality in Urban India”
  

• Shreekant Gupta (NIUA, DSE), Surender Kumar and Gopal Sarangi (TERI): “Measuring Efficiency of Indian Cities in Provision of Water Services: a Distance Function Approach”
• L. Venkatachalam (MIDS): “Public-Private Partnerships in Urban Water Supply Sector”
  

• Aditi Mukherji (IWMI, Colombo): "When wells are welfare and not threat to farmer's well-being: The case of groundwater based irrigation services markets in West Bengal, India"
• A.Banerji (DSE), Gauri Khanna (HEI) and J.V. Meenakshi (IFPRI, DSE): “Social Contracts, Markets and Efficiency: Groundwater Irrigation in North India”
  

• S. Janakarajan (Madras Institute of Development Studies)
  

CSSS : Centre for the Study of Social Sciences, Kolkata
DSE : Delhi School of Economics
DU  : University of Delhi
HEI : Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva
IEG : Institute of Economic Growth
IFPRI : International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC.
ISI : Indian Statistical Institute
IWMI : International Water Management Institute
JNU : Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
MIDS : Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai
MSE : Madras School of Economics, Chennai
NIUA : National Institute of Urban Affairs, Delhi
RTI : Research Triangle Institute International, U.S.
TERI : The Energy Research Institute, Delhi