Mysore/Mysuru: Mysore Open Forum has organised a talk on ‘Inclusive Growth and Unequal Deve-lopment’ by Prof. Srinivasan Raghavendran on Sunday (Mar. 17) at Kalpa Kshetra Auditorium, 581/1, Vijayanagar 4th Stage, 1st Phase, Mysuru, at 10.30 am. The talk is open to all. [Mob:94498-19536].

Prof. Raghavendran teaches at the School of Arts and Sciences at the Azim Premji University. He obtained an M.Phil (Economics) from the Centre for Development Studies in Trivandrum and Ph.D from the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.

Prior to joining the Azim Premji University, he worked in the National University of Ireland, Galway in Ireland and in the Madras School of Economics in Chennai. His research is focused in the areas of Macroeconomics, Finance, Political Economy and Development.

In his talk, he will contextualise the structural transformation debate on the growth path Indian economy took in the past, the constraints it faced and resulting policy solutions to resolve those constraints. He will highlight that this growth path underpins the duality that we witness today and further implications for inequalities arising from such unequal development and argue that the dynamics between growth imperatives and developmental consequences needs a more careful examination than it is accorded in the standard economics literature.

He will propose that such analysis requires two things: a) liberate us from the linear approach offered by the standard economic analysis, b) developing an intersectional approach for rethinking the process of economic development that is embedded in the realities of the Indian context.