14 January 2016: Why we Cheat: Experimental Evidence on Tax Compliance

Organised by:
Brookings India, New Delhi,
AURO University, Gujarat and
National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi

Raymond Duch
Nuffield Centre for Experimental Social Sciences (CESS)

Date: January 14, 2016
Time: 04:30 P.M.

Venue:
Conference Hall, Ground Floor, R&T Building
National Institute of Public Finance and Policy,
18/2 Satsang Vihar Marg, Special Institutional Area,
New Delhi-110067(INDIA)

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Those who are interested may please confirm your participation to Mr. Bins Sebastian at bins.sebastian@nipfp.org.in latest by Wednesday, 13th January 2016

4-5 January 2016: International Conference on the Sociology of Elites in Contemporary India

Organised by:
Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities (CSH), New Delhi
Sociology Department, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and
Institut Français in India (IFI), New Delhi

Conference Program

Date: January 4-5, 2016

Venue:
JNU Convention Centre,
Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi-110067 (India)

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17 December 2015: Monitoring Systems in Education A Study of 5 States in India

Kiran Bhatty, Priyanka Varma and Radhika Saraf
Centre for Policy Research

Abstract:
The study is an attempt to examine the government's system of monitoring schools. Monitoring forms one of the mechanisms by which performance of the education system is tracked, shortfalls identified and changes initiated in a timely fashion to ensure the core objectives of education. If, as is the case, quality is persistently declining, one of the questions that arise is: Are schools being monitored effectively? If they are, are they having the desired impact? If not, where do the shortfalls lie? Unfortunately, even as the criticality of monitoring for efficient service delivery is being widely acknowledged, there is very little information on how the system works, whether it feeds back into the planning and policy loop, and what are its constraints.

Placing the findings within a framework of institutional analysis, the study highlights incoherence in the bureaucratic structures of monitoring, lack of ownership of roles assigned to the monitors, and lack of community embeddedness at lower levels of the bureaucracy as factors contributing to ineffectual monitoring. 

Date: December 17, 2015
Time: 11:00 A.M.

Venue:
Conference Hall
Centre for Policy Research,
Dharma Marg, Chanakyapuri,
New Delhi–110021(INDIA)

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15 December 2015: Challenges of health policy and key recommendations in the Indian context

Peter Berman
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and
Jeffrey S. Hammer
Princeton University

Date: December 15, 2015
Time: 04:30 P.M.

Venue:
Ground Floor Conference Hall
R&T Building
National Institute of Public Finance and Policy,
18/2 Satsang Vihar Marg, Special Institutional Area,
New Delhi-110067(INDIA)

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Please confirm your participation at bins.sebastian@nipfp.org.in

8 December 2015: Free Market Solutions to Climate Policy and other Environmental Challenges

Julian Morris
Reason Foundation

Date: December 8, 2015
Time: 04:00 P.M.

Venue:
Conference Room, Ground Floor
Centre for Civil Society,
A-69 Hauz Khas,
New Delhi-110016(INDIA)

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21 November 2015: SNU-IIC Lecture Series 2015 - Opportunities and Challenges for India's Financial Diplomacy

Rathin Roy
Director, NIPFP and Member, Seventh Pay Commission

Date: November 21, 2015
Time: 06:30 P.M.

Venue:
Conference Room 1
Indian International Centre
40, Max Mueller Marg,
New Delhi-110003(INDIA)

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19 November 2015: Tilting at Titling: Will We Ever Get it Right?

Deepak Sanan
Government of Himachal Pradesh

Abstract:
Incomplete and inconclusive land titling in India pose serious challenges to the conduct of business and often create situations of injustice by facilitating dispossession and displacement. Disputed ownership is commonplace, with many cases under litigation for decades. Mr. Sanan will review the reasons for such infirmities in land titles in India,  explain how the government typically deals with such infirmities, and demonstrate why the government's approach is insufficient to deal with the issue of land titling systematically.

Date: November 19, 2015
Time: 12:30 P.M.

Venue:
Conference Hall
Centre for Policy Research,
Dharma Marg, Chanakyapuri,
New Delhi–110021(INDIA)

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