Nilanjan Banik-'Growth versus Development: The Case of Asia'

Nilanjan Banik from the Institute for Financial Management and Research, Chennai, India is visiting our center on June 11th. He will be presenting a paper on "Growth versus Development: The Case of Asia" (co-authored with Basudeb Biswas and Sanjib Sarkar). The authors build a social development index, incorporating the effect of growth on distribution of income, and they study how growth is affecting social development in fast-growing economies in Asia.