Given the inclusive growth imperatives and growing need for creating employment opportunities we are organising the 28th Skoch Summit with the underlying theme of "Mainstreaming the Marginalised" on 27th March 2012, Le-Meridien, New Delhi . The key content of the summit is as follows:   

• Role of Cloud Services and Mobility in Inclusive Growth   
• Investor Protection and Financial Literacy    
• Mainstreaming Minorities, Weaker Sections and Women    
• Decentralisation and Participatory Democracy    
• Document Management and Government Reform    
• Development Perspectives from Forward Looking States more
  

Skoch awards are about you and not about us. The distinguished list of our awardees is a testimony to the fact that our awards are conferred with the dignity, seriousness and an eye for detail that extraordinary contributions deserve.

Skoch Financial Inclusion Awards seek to recognize best practices from the banking and financial services sector for promoting inclusive growth and poverty alleviation from across urban and rural India.

Call for nominations are invited from banking & financial service institutions, central and state government departments, industry, vendors, system integrators, institutions, civil society and so on. more

 

A key figure in India's economic reforms from the early 1980s onwards, Montek Singh Ahluwalia's fingerprints can be found in policies from economics to education reform, and he has been a driving force in the liberalisation programme of the past 20 years or more. The Oxford-educated economist spent 11 years with the World Bank in Washington before returning to India in 1979 to work as an economic adviser to the government.

His commitment to poverty alleviation and inclusive growth can be found in his early writings and as deputy chairman of the Planning Commission, he has managed to translate this into the country's plan process. He is also the harbinger of participatory planning wherein for the first time Planning Commission started inviting suggestions and feedback for the 12th Five Year Plan.

This festschrift comprises a range of essays covering different drivers of economic growth and development, providing not only an insight into policymaking and its impact, but also directions for India if it is to become a major player in the global economy. This book is a must-read for students of development economics and political economy and is highly recommended for graduate students, academics and professionals interested in economic issues of developing countries. 

In this timely book—a festschrift for Dr. C. Rangarajan—top experts, policymakers and economists offer their assessments of India’s performance in the area of economic and financial reforms and analyse the successes and continued challenges. It provides an insight into critical macroeconomic and macro-finance issues of today. The book covers a broad set of topics, including fiscal, monetary and external sector policies, drivers of banking and financial growth, infrastructure and financial inclusion.

A strategy of gradual economic liberalisation combined with risk-averse prudential regulation in the banking and financial sector helped limit India’s exposure to the recent financial crises and the subsequent global economic slowdown. The improved economic performance in recent years encouraged the country to become more globally and regionally integrated. This process is unlikely to be reversed by the current global economic slowdown, given the economic and strategic benefits India has derived so far. 

The authors in this festschrift share a critical, but overall positive, view of the country’s future and outline several areas and recommendations for bettering the lives of citizens. Empirically rich and topically diverse, the book is broad in scope and full of deep analytic insights and will serve as a useful reference and planning tool for administrators, planners, policymakers and students of development economics, monetary economics and finance.  more