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Class and Inequality: A Session with Prof. Vamsi Vakulabharanam
June 17 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Class and inequality are issues that shape the social and economic landscape of a country; these factors reflect significant disparities in the availability and access to resources like education, food and many other factors. These factors are so pronounced that they are very much evident in the case of countries like India and China. In this context, the Department of Economics is organising a departmental talk on Class and Inequality in China and India. The talk by Prof. Vamsi Vakulabharanam from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
About the Speaker:
Vamsi Vakulabharanam is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Previously, he taught at the University of Hyderabad (2008-14) and the City University of New York (2004-07). He was a grantee at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET, NY) between 2011 and 2014 on a project titled, ‘Economic Development and Inequality: What Can the Asian Experience Teach Us?’ He was a Fellow of the India China Institute of the New School (NY) between 2008 and 2010. He has worked on issues pertaining to agrarian change in the context of globalisation in developing economies, agrarian cooperatives, and the relationship between economic development and inequality. His recent research focuses on inequality in the contemporary Asian economies, including India and China.
Join the talk for a thought-provoking session!