Does Political Empowerment Explain Closing Wage Gaps?<br />Columbia University Program on Indian Economic Policies - Columbia University<br />Academic experts on India discuss reforms aimed at curbing poverty and inequality among the nation's socially disadvantaged.<br /><br />CHAIR: N.K. Singh, Member of Parliament, India<br /><br />Paper 1: Growth, Openness and the Socially Disadvantaged, Megha Mukim (LSE) and Arvind Panagariya (Columbia)<br /><br />Paper 2: The Post-reform Narrowing of Inequality Across Castes: Evidence from the States, Viktoria Hnatkovska and Amartya Lahiri (UBC)<br /><br />Discussant 1: Mary Lovely, Syracuse<br /><br />Discussant 2: Pravin Krishna, Johns Hopkins
