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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

“Globalization and Public Sector Reforms in India and China” Copenhagen, September 23-24, 2011.

 

Organized by Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard and Anthony P. D’Costa

Asia Research Centre

Copenhagen Business School

 

Not a single day goes by in the business press without mentioning China and India.  Both countries are trying to shed whatever form of “socialism” they might have claimed to have fostered.  But their public sectors, despite some restructuring, continue to exist.  The public sector has an important economic, social, and political place.  A weak capitalist class, the political need to control critical sectors, the significance of spillover effects, state investments complementing private initiatives, and generating well-paid, secure jobs are well known justifications for a public sector.  However, public sectors everywhere have been beset with inefficiency, unprofitability, and lack of competitiveness thus draining the public exchequer of increasingly scarcer budgets.  Hence, an economic, political, and ideological frontal onslaught has been unleashed to reform the public sector to make it efficient and market-conforming. 

 

Whatever be the merits of public sector reform the real challenge for both China and India is how they can cope with the twin demands of market-friendly policies and job creation for the masses.  Although there are by now a number of comparative studies of recent developments in China and India, a study of public sector reform in the two countries have never been done in a systematic way. Given the complex tasks and functions arising out of the ongoing modernization process, one might somewhat unconventionally argue that China and India perhaps need more government and government officials rather than retrenchment of the public sector.

 

Following the December 2009 conference on Globalization and Economic Nationalism in Asia this conference revisits the role of the state but in a different way.  The objective is to firmly grasp the central issues surrounding public sector reform in China and India.  This conference calls for papers that directly address the significance of public sector reforms in China and India in the wider political, economic, and social contexts.  We are interested in empirically-driven papers that are also theoretically grounded.  Both national and comparative perspectives for analyzing public sector reforms in China and India are welcome.  We are also open to well-positioned industry, sectoral, technological, and national-regional analysis of public sector reforms.  Given the nature of the theme, interdisciplinary, political-economic, sociological, and historically-sensitive analysis will be seen as the most appropriate.  The following broad interrelated themes are indicative of the issues the conference hopes to capture:

I.                    Economic development and public sector reform.

II.                  Status of public sector reform in China and India.

III.               Public sector reform and employment.

IV.                Public sector reform and the political system.

V.                  Public sector reform, business development, and public-private partnerships.

VI.                The civil service system

VII.             Looking to the future.

 

The conference will take place at the Copenhagen Business School in Copenhagen, September 23-24, 2011.

 

Keynote speakers and invited presenters include:

Dr Parthasarathi Banerjee, Director National Institute of Science and Technology and Development Studies, Government of India, New Delhi

Professor Pranab Bardhan, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley

Professor John Burns, Head of Department of Government and Political Science, Hong Kong University

Professor Manoranjan Mohanty, Department of Political Science University of Delhi

Professor Peter Nolan, Judge Business School, Cambridge University

Professor Jean Oi, Department of Political Science, Stanford University

Professor Andrew Walder, Head of Department of Sociology, Stanford University

Professor Christine Wong, University of Oxford

Professor Zheng Yongnian, Director of East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore

 

In addition to these especially invited scholars there is a call for papers.  We expect a total of 20 paper presentations over a two-day period.

Scholars and policy-makers who wish to present at the conference are invited to submit an expanded 4-page (double- spaced, approximately 1,000 words) abstract and a CV in MSWord format electronically by April 25, 2011 to: [log in to unmask], see also www.cbs.dk/psric for additional details.

 

The conference organizers will make every effort to provide economy airfare and accommodation for presenters whose papers are selected by the scientific committee.  However, invited participants should also explore alternative travel support as well.

 

FOR ALL SUBMISSION AND UPDATED CONFERENCE DETAILS GO TO www.cbs.dk/psric

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Asia Research Centre
Copenhagen Business School
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