Rural Development - The Challenge of Livelihood and Poverty

Although there appears to be an enduring concern with Indias poor within the policy circle and in public discourse, is this debate leading to new and innovative ideas on how to pull millions of Indians out of grinding poverty? What is the way forward? Should the emphasis be on skills development, agricultural development, microfinance, market access etc? What other models of rural development do we need to examine?

Moderator: Anand Shah, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Indicorps

Panel:
• Manoj Kumar, CEO, Naandi Foundation
• Adarsh Kumar, Executive Director, All India Artisans and Craftworkers Welfare Association
• Yashashree Gurjar, Group Head, Corporate Social Responsibility, Avantha Group
• Abhijit Banerjee, Foundation International Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Ideas
• India
• Rural
• Development
• The
• Challenge
• of
• Livelihood
• and
• Poverty

[vpradee4u]

guys time to just tugg up the collar and work for it rather than just giving out a conference or hot chat. just a white paper isnt going to fetch anything.

[mithunmahesh]

Instead of talking, Presentation with graphs will be a good step moving forward.