Conference on Economic Growth in India and China: Social and Economic Impacts. September 27-28, 2018

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1 Conference on Economic Growth in India and China: Social and Economic Impacts As a part of collaborative research activities between Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) and Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) Inaugural Session (9.30 am-11 am) September 27-28, 2018 Tentative Session Wise Programme Day 1: September 27 Chair: Welcome Address: Dr. A Ravindra, IAS (Retd) Former Chief Secretary, GoK, Chairman, Board of Governors, ISEC Prof. M G Chandrakanth, Director, ISEC About the Conference: Prof. Kala S Sridhar, ISEC Inaugural Address Prof. S. Bisaliah Former Vice Chancellor, UAS, Bangalore Prof. Hu Xueju, Vice President of SASS Keynote Address and Chairman s Remarks: Dr. A Ravindra Vote of Thanks: Dr. Channamma Kambara, ISEC Rapporteur: Group Photograph: Mr Jadhav Chakradhar, ISEC am am High Tea: am am

2 Technical Session 1 (11:30 am-12:30 PM): Trade, Technology and economic development Chair: Prof. M.G.Chandrakanth, Director and Professor, ISEC i. Does FDI intensify Economic Growth? Evidence from China and India - Kedar Vishnu, Research Scholar, ADRTC, ISEC and Pratibha Neharkar, Ph. D Scholar, BAMU, Aurangabad. ii. Internet access and Economic Development: Comparative Study of India and China - V. Sridhar, Professor, IIIT-B, Bangalore iii. Trade in Environmental Goods - A Comparison of India and China Varadurga Bhat, Christ University, Bengaluru, and Malini L Tantri, Assistant Professor, CESP, ISEC iv. Research on the Path of India's Economic Growth - Fei Junjun, SASS, to be read by Ms.Liao, SASS Rapporteur: Ms. Kaumudi Misra, ISEC Technical Session 2: India and China: Cultural Ties and Harmonious Relations (12.30pm 1.30 pm) Chair: Prof. M.G.Chandrakanth, Director and Professor, ISEC i. A comparative study of the ancient city of Harappa and the ancient city of Baodun culture - Yang Lihua, Associate Professor, SASS ii. India and China- A Comparative Public Policy Perspective - Rukmini Bhattacharjee, Assistant Professor, Amity University Kolkata iii. The Study Of China Indian Cultural Products Trade From The Perspective Of SWOT Model - Based on Belt and road Initiative - Yang Jiamei, Associate Professor, SASS Rapporteur: Ms. Supriya Bhandarkar, ISEC Lunch Break (1.30 pm pm) Technical Session 3: Poverty and equity aspects of growth in India and China (2.30 pm pm) Chair: Prof. N Sivanna, Chief Executive Officer, Karnataka Panchayat Raj Parishath i. Is urbanization broad-basing in India and China? - Kala S Sridhar, Professor, CRUA, ISEC and K.C. Smitha, Senior Consultant, CRUA, ISEC. ii. Returns to Education in Self-Employment: A Comparative Study of India and China - Indrajit Bairagya, Assistant Professor, CHRD, ISEC iii. Land and Development Politics: Comparative analysis of land policies of India and China - Pallav Karmakar, Research Scholar, CPIGD, ISEC Rapporteur: Mr. Mudassar Mahamad Jamadar, ISEC

3 Tea Break (3:30 pm -3:45 pm) Technical Session 4: Issues of Governance in India and China (3:45 pm- 5:15 pm) Chair: Prof. Kala S Sridhar, Professor, CRUA, ISEC i. Fiscal decentralisation in India and China: The experiences in service delivery - K. Gayithri, Professor, CESP, ISEC ii. Finances of Local Governments in India and China - R. Manjula, Assistant Professor, CDD, ISEC & D Rajasekhar, Professor, CDD, ISEC iii. Urban commuters in India and China: A comparative study - Shivakumar Nayka, Research Scholar, CRUA, ISEC iv. Comparative Study on the Development of China and India's Capital Market Service Real Economy - Du Kunlun, Associate Professor, SASS and Liao Lulu, SASS Rapporteur: Dr. Smitha K C, ISEC Day 2: September 28, 2018 Technical Session 1: India and China: Social Issues (9.30 am am) Chair: Prof. Abdul Aziz, National Professor at NLSIU, Bengaluru i. Urbanization in China and India: Socio-Economic Issues, Impact and Prospects - Inderjeet Singh Sodhi, Professor, Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development ii. Problems and Prospects of Internal Migration: With reference to India and China - Channamma Kambara, Assistant Professor, CRUA, ISEC Rapporteur: Mr. Azar Khan, ISEC Tea Break (11.00 am am) 11:15-11:45 AM: Special Address by Dr.R.Vishal, IAS, Commissioner, Rural Drinking Water Supply and Drainage Agency, Government of Karnataka Municipal accounting practices in China: Can India learn? A practitioner s perspective

4 Technical Session 2: Comparing India and China: Issues in Agriculture and sectoral development (11.45 am pm) Chair: Dr. Li Jingfeng, Center for India Studies, SASS i. Land and Labour Productivity in Agriculture in India and China - A Comparative Analysis - Parmod Kumar, Professor, ADRTC, ISEC ii. Agriculture Insurance in India and China: Status and Challenges - Meenakshi Rajeev, Professor, CESP, ISEC and Pranav Nagendran, Research Assistant, CESP, ISEC iii. Agricultural production, trade and food security: A comparative analysis of India and China- I. Maruthi, Associate Professor, ADRTC, ISEC iv. The comparative study on the internationalization of China's and India's service industries - Zutian Sheng, Graduate Student, SASS Dong Chen and Sheng Yi, SASS Rapporteur: Mr. Shivakumar Nayaka, ISEC Lunch Break (1.15 pm pm) Technical Session 3: Climate Change in India and China (2.15 pm pm) Chair: Prof. M.V. Nadkarni, Former V-C, Gulbarga University and Founder, CEENR, ISEC i. Studies about India's environmental legal system and risk aversion - Li Jingfeng, Center for India Studies, SASS ii. Population, Development and Environment: A Geographical Experience in India and China - C.M. Lakshmana, Professor, PRC, ISEC iii. Comparative Study on Environmental Protection Systems Between China and India - Wang Suzhen, Assistant Professor, SASS iv. Urbanization and field margin vegetation in dynamic Peri-urban Region - Sunil Nautiyal, Professor, CEENR, ISEC and Rahisha T, Senior Research Fellow (SRF), CEENR, ISEC v. The comparison of Sino-India policy and mechanism of carbon emission reduction - Zhang Xu, Professor, SASS Rapporteur: Mrs. Latha N, ISEC Tea Break (3.45 pm pm)

5 Valedictory Session (4.00 pm 5.00 pm) Opening Remarks: 4.00 pm 4.05 pm Valedictory Address 4.05 pm 4.40 pm Prof. M G Chandrakanth, Director, ISEC Dr. B. S Venkatesh, Associate Professor, Maharani's Arts, Commerce and Business Management College, Bangalore Dr. Krishna Hombal, Assistant Professor, Dept of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Mysore Distribution of Certificates 4.40 pm 5 pm Vote of Thanks: 5.00 pm Prof. Kala S Sridhar and Dr. Channamma Kambara, ISEC Rapporteur: Ms. Amrin Kamaluddin Fakih, ISEC

6 Indo-China Conference Economic Growth in India and China: Social and Economic Impacts Jointly organised by Centre for Research in Urban Affairs of the Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), and Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) September 2018 Concept Note With increasing economic growth, India and China, being two large and rapidly growing economies of the world, have been the subject of much global debate. Their per capita incomes have grown fast since the decade of their liberalization and economic reforms, respectively 1991 and 1978 for India and China. A number of scholars and studies have examined the implications of the rapid rise of India and China and their consequences. Although the rise of India has been less dramatic than that of China which has nearly become an economic super power recently, there is a need to understand rapid economic growth and their causes in the context of two different political systems. Further, few countries have reached high per capita income levels without urbanizing adequately. India and China have been constantly urbanizing, although China has urbanized more rapidly than the former, with urbanization contributing significantly to economic growth and output in each of the countries. While in India, the natural growth rate of population is a major contributor to urbanization, in China, the hukou system has led to a situation where Chinese cities are largely under-sized, leading to cutting back on city level economies of scale. With Beijing and Delhi and many other Chinese and Indian cities being engulfed with smog and pollution, carbon emissions have assumed tremendous importance in the policy debates in each of the two countries, especially because of their implications for public health and mortality. Urbanization and its associated economic activities -- manufacturing, fuel consumption, mobility, are all polluting by nature, with the result cities in these countries have been frequently blamed for carbon emissions. There are also concerns being raised in each of the countries about the impacts of increasing urbanization, as to whether it poses a threat for food security, with declining land for agricultural production. But there are studies which show that in each of the two countries, the process of urbanization has been continuing without affecting agricultural productivity, just as Lewis two-sector model of growth predicts that labor can be moved out of agriculture, without impacting agricultural productivity or output. Urbanization and economic growth have led to spiralling land and housing prices in each of the countries, to the point of making them unaffordable to the common man. But the local governments in each of the two countries are weak in terms of their autonomy, and finances. Nonetheless, land has become a viable source of financing for cities and local governments in each of the two countries, which has enabled many of them to provide good basic infrastructure

7 and public services. Hence there is a need to study the structure of the local government in each of the two countries, and to understand if there are best practices to be learned from each other. Poverty is a major concern in each of the two countries. While urban poverty is more challenging than rural poverty by nature, proponents of rural and agricultural growth argue the other way. Nonetheless urban poverty is characterized by food insecurity, social exclusion and housing unaffordability while rural poverty could be characterized by lack of access to basic services such as health and education. Hence there is a need to study both and the relative importance of rural and urban poverty in each of the two countries. There are also social impacts that are unprecedented with the result of rapid economic growth, social exclusion being the most important. India's 2 percent of the population, and China's 6 percent of the population, most of whom live in poverty as per some estimates, will constitute the world's largest disabled population. In this context, it is important to explore if there have been proactive policies for the physically disabled in each of the two countries. However, community cohesiveness may be more prominent in the aftermath of urbanization and economic growth, and social integration may also be occurring in each of the countries and some recent research testifies to this. Taking into account the above context, we are inviting broad papers that address these issues, to deliberate in this Conference: 1. Economic growth and development; 2. Urbanization and their social and economic effects; 3. Land and housing; 4. Pollution and the environment; 5. Finances of local governments; 6. Urban and rural poverty; 7. Migration; 8. Programmes and policies for the physically disabled and visually impaired. Important Dates: Conference Dates: 27 th -28 th September 2018 Attendance and participation in the conference is by invitation only.