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As the COP21 approaches, below are CPR’s events at Paris:

I. How will INDCs shape development? Views from Chile, China, Colombia, India, Peru & South Africa

Side event at COP21, Paris
8 December 2015 | 1130 to 1300 hrs | Observer Room 2, COP21 conference site, Le Bourget

CPR, the University of Cape Town and South SouthNorth Projects Africa, are co-hosting an event focusing on the interactions between INDCs and development outcomes in the MAPS countries (Brazil Chile, Colombia Peru, South Africa), China & India given the complexity of decarbonisation, integrating multiple objectives and facing implementation in developing countries.

II.Development Mitigation and Futures: MAPS and DDPP experiences

Conference | 3 – 4 December 2015, 0930 to 1830 hrs, Mercure Paris Suffren Tour Eiffel, Paris
High level event | 6 December 2015, 1030 to 1230 hrs, Pavillon Wagram, Paris (by invitation only)

CPR is a research collaborator with Mitigation Action Plans and Scenarios (MAPS) and Deep Decarbonisation Pathways Project (DDPP), for a technical conference that will discuss approaches to advance domestic mitigation policies towards low carbon prosperous societies. The conference is followed by high level meeting with representatives from national governments, businesses, the donor community and non-profit organisations, aimed at discussing the role of long-term transformations in the Post-2015 process and its effective implementation.

III. Where are the big emitters China and India heading?

Event organised by the Centre for International Climate and Energy Politics (CICEP)
8 December 2015 | 1800 to 2000 hrs | CICERO Action through Connection pavilion, Hall 3, COP21 Conference Site, Le Bourget

CPR will participate at a debate focusing on domestic policies and emission trends in China and India, as well as the role of both countries in international climate politics.

CPR’s Pre-Paris Publications and Events

Click here for an interactive timeline of CPR’s Climate Initiative publications and events over the past year on informing domestic and international climate and development policy debates in the lead up to Paris.
Click here to watch the video of a recent event that was held with India’s most seasoned climate negotiators on India’s interests and what negotiating approach at COP21 in Paris.

INCLUDES A BROADER SPECTRUM OF WORK
CLIMATE RESEARCH

Over the past few months, we have taken stock of our work, and reflected on its future direction. This process has led us to make explicit what has been implicit in our work so far – energy, environment, and climate are interlinked issues in India’s development context. For this reason, we have modified our name to the CPR Initiative on Climate, Energy, and Environment.

We will broadly look at the following themes:

Understanding and interpreting the global climate change regime

The contours of the international climate change debate and negotiating process will be significantly shaped by the Paris Agreement, but there is considerable work remaining to flesh out key elements like transparency, global stocktake and compliance. This process has significant implications for India’s interests in both mitigation and adaptation. We will continue to build on our past work on international climate law and policy, comparative country experience, and our formal and informal engagement with international processes to help build a more robust, effective and equitable climate regime. Forthcoming work includes:

International Climate Change Law, co-authored by Daniel Bodansky, Jutta Brunnee and Lavanya Rajamani, forthcoming from Oxford University Press (March 2017).
‘Safeguarding Development and Limiting Vulnerability: India’s Stakes in the Paris Agreement’, forthcoming in WIREs Climate Change, by Navroz K. Dubash.
Strategic and sectoral debates on India’s energy future

India’s energy sector faces transformational changes in the next decade on both the demand and supply sides, with significant socio-economic and environmental implications. Our aim is twofold: to stimulate and inform a debate around the strategic priorities for India’s energy future, and the complementary institutional mechanisms; and to explore specific energy sub-sectors that are critical to the country’s future, in particular, the buildings and the electricity sectors. Ongoing work includes:

Mapping Power: Research into the political economy of electricity distribution in 12 states across India.
Research on India’s Built Environment led by Radhika Khosla, including analysis on technology deployment and the role of demand-side solutions.
Analytical and institutional analysis of India’s future energy and carbon emissions trends.
Integration across energy, environment and climate outcomes

Integrating decision making across energy, environment and climate objectives will assume greater importance, particularly as local environmental constraints on growth get more stringent, and as climate policy is ’nationally determined’. We will seek to operationalize, implement, and promote, an integrated approach to climate and development, recognizing the potential for synergies and trade-offs across the multiple objectives of energy, environment and climate polity. Ongoing work includes:

Multiple Objective-Based Energy and Climate Policy: Field application of methods to evaluate trade-offs and synergies across energy objectives, starting with a rural cooking study.
Institutional, legal and regulatory architecture for environmental governance

As India develops, environmental and social implications of economic decisions will be considerable. A robust legal and regulatory architecture will be needed, that supports integration across multiple objectives, enables long-term strategic thinking, and facilitates effective institutional structures. We will focus on analysing key issues of domestic environmental law, governance and regulation, and in particular consider institutional capacities for strategic environmental governance. Forthcoming work includes:

Key Principles of Indian Environmental Jurisprudence edited by Shibani Ghosh, forthcoming from Orient Blackswan (2017).
Analysis of the constitution and functioning of appellate authorities under the Water Act 1974.
These areas maintain continuity with and extend our past work, but also chart out new areas. As we go forward, our approach and intent remains the same: to inform and deepen public debate through policy research, academic writing, teaching, participation in international and domestic expert groups, and civil society engagement. We look forward to continuing our robust engagement with our colleagues in various spheres as we move forward.

New Delhi: The Government of India today released India’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC). The INDC stated India would reduce the emissions intensity of its GDP by 33-35% from 2005 levels by 2030, backed by several sectoral actions. India will also increase non-fossil fuel sources in electric power capacity to about 40% by 2030. Other goals include increased carbon sinks through forest cover, improved adaptation, mobilizing additional funds and building capacity, including through international support.

“The real benchmark for India’s INDC is whether it avoids lock-in to a high-carbon future,” said Navroz K. Dubash, Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research. “By this standard, the most serious component is the detailed list of sectoral actions. This shows that key economic and infrastructure ministries have been closely engaged in formulating climate policy, which is an important break from the past.”

“The emissions intensity target is conservative when benchmarked against modelling studies, and roughly consistent with India’s Cancun pledge for 2020,” he added, referring to CPR analysis (Figure below). “This suggests the intensity number is the floor and the real action lies in the sectoral measures.”

The headline emissions intensity target is supported by a fossil fuel free goal of 40% for 2030 with the help of international support and a short-term domestic renewable energy target of 175 GW by 2022. “India’s INDC target of 40% non-fossil based electricity capacity implies a 10% increase from current non-fossil fuel capacity of 30%. In addition, the domestic 2022 renewable energy target of 175 GW is more ambitious,” said Radhika Khosla, Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research. “If the challenging domestic 2022 renewable target is met, the 2030 fossil fuel free target is likely to be exceeded.”

Since the focus is on a series of sectoral actions, the framework for assessing the effects of these actions for India’s contribution is particularly significant.

“India’s submission of its INDC represents an important milestone on the road to Paris,” said Lavanya Rajamani, Professor at the Centre for Policy Research. “India must now invest its negotiating capital in addressing issues related to the legal character, transparency and review of national contributions on which the effectiveness of the 2015 agreement will hinge.”

We are happy to share with you the following comments from researchers at the Centre for Policy Research, an independent think tank based in New Delhi, on the Paris Agreement, a new climate accord that was approved by the nations of the world on Dec. 12th.

“Significantly for India, the Paris Agreement firmly anchors ‘differentiation’ for developing countries – the idea that developed and developing countries have different responsibilities and capabilities. It systematically reflects differentiation across the various aspects of climate action – mitigation, adaptation, and support. Developed countries are expected to take the lead on mitigation and support, while developing countries are expected to take actions within the context of their sustainable development and poverty eradication imperatives” said Lavanya Rajamani, Professor at the Centre for Policy Research.
“As a large developing country with little historic responsibility for the problem and considerable energy needs, this was an important outcome for India.”

“As a vulnerable country, achieving a climate deal is important for India,” added Navroz K. Dubash, Senior Fellow and Coordinator of CPR’s Climate Initiative. “Various mechanisms have been put in place to enhance actions by countries over time – systematic updates of country actions every five years, a global ‘stocktake’ and provisions for a review process. While India should certainly do its part, it is important that these mechanisms keep pressure on developed countries for more ambitious actions, to allow countries like India the carbon space to meet our development needs.

“The Paris Agreement kicks off a long-term global process involving every country in the world,” said Radhika Khosla, Fellow at CPR. “It would be in India’s interest to establish a consistent and ongoing process to analyse and update Indian energy and climate policy in order to safeguard our future development and climate interests in the negotiations.”

CPR is holding a discussion on the Paris Agreement on 18th December 2015. Please click here for details and to RSVP.

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CPR RIGHTS

Watch the full video (above) of the panel discussion on ‘Are India’s Financial Institutions in Crisis? Understanding India’s Economic Slowdown’ featuring B Sriram (Former Managing Director, State Bank of India and IDBI Bank); Upendra Kumar Sinha [Former Chairperson, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)]; Naina Lal Kidwai, Former Chairperson, HSBC India and Senior Adviser, Advent Private Equity) and moderated by KP Krishnan (Former Secretary, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Government of India).

The crisis in India’s financial institutions is at the forefront of ongoing diagnosis of India’s economic slowdown. As our government and banking ecosystems have begun to acknowledge some of their deep problems, there has been a scramble for quick diagnosis and remedies. But many of the problems in our financial system defy quick fixes; they will require a reorientation and rethinking of how the government has managed the economy over the last twenty years. Before diagnosis and remedies, we must ask the basic question: what is the state-run financial system good at? And where has it fallen short?

This panel brought together practitioners from government, the private sector, and regulation who have been at the forefront of managing and observing various financial institutions (public sector banks, private banks, regulators, cooperatives, auditors, mutual funds, equity markets etc.). In conversation, they discussed their perceptions regarding what works, what does not work, and what must change in India’s financial institutions going forward.

The panel was organised as part of the second edition of CPR Dialogues, held on 2nd and 3rd March 2020 at the India Habitat Centre. Addressing the theme of Policy Perspectives for 21st-century India, CPR Dialogues 2020 provided a window to the India of the future. Experts from around the country and the world engaged with and debated these very significant development and policy challenges that India faces in the coming decade.

ThePrint India was the digital partner for the event.

Media coverage of the session can be found below:

Regulatory lapses & policy uncertainty are pushing infra financing into crisis: Experts by ThePrint
Videos of other panel discussions organised as part of CPR Dialogues 2020 can be found below:

CPR Dialogues 2020- Inaugural Address by Hon’ble Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
CPR Dialogues 2020- At the Threshold of a New Decade: Navigating the Emerging Geopolitical Landscape
CPR Dialogues 2020- Rights in Times of AI: Emerging Technologies and the Public Law Framework
CPR Dialogues 2020- What Would Happen if We Were to Believe in Indian Agriculture?
CPR Dialogues 2020- Creating an Inclusive Economy in a Digital World
CPR Dialogues 2020- What Would it Take to Build a 21st-century State for India? Launch of CPR’s State Capacity Initiative
CPR Dialogues 2020- Technology and Administrative Reform: Experience from India and the World
CPR Dialogues 2020- Tracking Government Spending: Challenges in Social Policy Financing
CPR Dialogues 2020- The Air Pollution Crisis: Making Political Salience Count
CPR Dialogues 2020- Article 21 and India’s Social and Economic Rights
CPR Dialogues 2020- Challenges in Public Education: Balancing State and Non-State Actors
CPR Dialogues 2020- Emerging Trends in Indian Politics
CPR Dialogues 2020- The Role of Ideas in Shaping Policy
CPR Dialogues 2020- Indo-US Relations
CPR Dialogues 2020- Land and the Constitution: Solving Land Conflict in India
CPR Dialogues 2020- Political Elites and Local Bureaucratic Capacit

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CPR RIGHTS

Watch the full video (above) of the panel discussion on ‘Article 21 and India’s Social and Economic Rights’ featuring Sudhir Krishnaswamy (Vice-Chancellor, National Law School of India University, Bangalore); Namita Wahi (Fellow and Director, Land Rights Initiative, CPR); Shibani Ghosh (Fellow, CPR); Kiran Bhatty (Senior Fellow, CPR) and moderated by Arkaja Singh (Fellow, CPR).

Social and economic rights (SER) underpin basic human conditions necessary to live a life of freedom and dignity. The Indian Constitution, when it was adopted in 1950, guaranteed SER but they were made expressly non-enforceable by courts. However, starting from the late 1970s, in a series of judgments, the negative guarantee of the right to life in Article 21 was expanded into a positive one of right to life with dignity, and read the rights to health, housing, a clean environment, water, sanitation, food, education as the underlying determinants of the right to life with dignity.

The effect of the recognition of these various rights, however, varies, and the context and actors involved in the court cases has influenced the way in which these rights have been developed. There is considerable disagreement as to whether the articulation of social and economic rights has helped claimants and potential claimants. This panel drew from the experience of specific social and economic rights to understand how they are being put to use, and what constraints and limitations might prevent people from mobilising their rights.

The panel was organised as part of the second edition of CPR Dialogues, held on 2nd and 3rd March 2020 at the India Habitat Centre. Addressing the theme of Policy Perspectives for 21st-century India, CPR Dialogues 2020 provided a window to the India of the future. Experts from around the country and the world engaged with and debated these very significant development and policy challenges that India faces in the coming decade.

ThePrint India was the digital partner for the event.

An article on the rights of manual scavengers, written by Arkaja Singh and Aditya Unnikrishnan in ThePrint can be read here.

Videos of other panel discussions organised as part of CPR Dialogues 2020 can be found below:

CPR Dialogues 2020- Inaugural Address by Hon’ble Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
CPR Dialogues 2020- At the Threshold of a New Decade: Navigating the Emerging Geopolitical Landscape
CPR Dialogues 2020- Rights in Times of AI: Emerging Technologies and the Public Law Framework
CPR Dialogues 2020- What Would Happen if We Were to Believe in Indian Agriculture?
CPR Dialogues 2020- Creating an Inclusive Economy in a Digital World
CPR Dialogues 2020- What Would it Take to Build a 21st-century State for India? Launch of CPR’s State Capacity Initiative
CPR Dialogues 2020- Technology and Administrative Reform: Experience from India and the World
CPR Dialogues 2020- Tracking Government Spending: Challenges in Social Policy Financing
CPR Dialogues 2020- The Air Pollution Crisis: Making Political Salience Count
CPR Dialogues 2020- Challenges in Public Education: Balancing State and Non-State Actors
CPR Dialogues 2020- Emerging Trends in Indian Politics
CPR Dialogues 2020- Are India’s Financial Institutions in Crisis? Understanding India’s Economic Slowdown
CPR Dialogues 2020- The Role of Ideas in Shaping Policy
CPR Dialogues 2020- Indo-US Relations
CPR Dialogues 2020- Land and the Constitution: Solving Land Conflict in India
CPR Dialogues 2020- Political Elites and Local Bureaucratic Capacity

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CPR INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

Watch the full video (above) of the panel discussion on ‘At the Threshold of a New Decade: Navigating the Emerging Geopolitical Landscape’ featuring James Steinberg (Professor, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs; Former United States Deputy Secretary of State); Frank N Pieke (Professor of Modern China Studies, Leiden University) and moderated by Shyam Saran (Senior Fellow, CPR; Former Foreign Secretary, India).

What is likely to be the ‘new normal’ in international relations during the coming decade? Has the post Second World War order been finally laid to rest? If so, are the contours of a new geopolitical landscape beginning to emerge? Will some remnants of the old order continue to remain relevant? How are the major players positioning themselves in this ever-changing landscape? As global challenges such as climate change, cyber security, and security of space-based assets warrant a collaborative approach, will the new decade witness a new phase of accommodation and even cooperation? Are we inching towards a contemporary version of a bi-polar world or is the trend towards multi-polarity inescapable? These are some of the key questions that confront nations, big and small, as they prepare to navigate the coming decade. The session featured distinguished speakers with in-depth knowledge on India, the United States, the European Union, and China, who each offered a perspective on these critical issues from the vantage point of these countries.

The panel was organised as part of the second edition of CPR Dialogues, held on 2nd and 3rd March 2020 at the India Habitat Centre. Addressing the theme of Policy Perspectives for 21st-century India, CPR Dialogues 2020 provided a window to the India of the future. Experts from around the country and the world engaged with and debated these very significant development and policy challenges that India faces in the coming decade.

ThePrint India was the digital partner for the event.

An article on the changing geopolitical landscape, written by Shyam Saran in ThePrint can be read here.

Media coverage of the panel discussion can be found below:

‘Trade has been weaponised — India should lift tariffs on America’s Harley-Davidson bikes’ by ThePrint
Videos of other panel discussions organised as part of CPR Dialogues 2020 can be found below:

CPR Dialogues 2020- Inaugural Address by Hon’ble Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
CPR Dialogues 2020- Rights in Times of AI: Emerging Technologies and the Public Law Framework
CPR Dialogues 2020- What Would Happen if We Were to Believe in Indian Agriculture?
CPR Dialogues 2020- Creating an Inclusive Economy in a Digital World
CPR Dialogues 2020- What Would it Take to Build a 21st-century State for India? Launch of CPR’s State Capacity Initiative
CPR Dialogues 2020- Technology and Administrative Reform: Experience from India and the World
CPR Dialogues 2020- Tracking Government Spending: Challenges in Social Policy Financing
CPR Dialogues 2020- The Air Pollution Crisis: Making Political Salience Count
CPR Dialogues 2020- Article 21 and India’s Social and Economic Rights
CPR Dialogues 2020- Challenges in Public Education: Balancing State and Non-State Actors
CPR Dialogues 2020- Emerging Trends in Indian Politics
CPR Dialogues 2020- Are India’s Financial Institutions in Crisis? Understanding India’s Economic Slowdown
CPR Dialogues 2020- The Role of Ideas in Shaping Policy
CPR Dialogues 2020- Indo-US Relations
CPR Dialogues 2020- Land and the Constitution: Solving Land Conflict in India
CPR Dialogues 2020- Political Elites and Local Bureaucratic Capacity

13 March 2020
CPR Dialogues 2020- Challenges in Public Education: Balancing State and Non-State Actors
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CPR EDUCATION

Watch the full video (above) of the panel discussion on ‘Challenges in Public Education: Balancing State and Non-State Actors’ featuring NV Varghese (Chancellor, National Institute of Education Planning and Administration); Rashmi Sharma (Senior Visiting Fellow, ICRIER and Former IAS Officer); Priyadarshani Joshi (Global Education Monitoring Team, UNESCO); Parth J Shah (Founder President, Centre for Civil Society) and moderated by Kiran Bhatty (Senior Fellow, CPR).

Public education has been under the scanner in the last few decades for failing to deliver the goals of education and enhance learning levels. The efficacy of state provision has been questioned, as state supply of education has consistently fallen short of meeting demand due to fiscal and other constraints. As quality declined, those who could, have sought non-state options, fuelling their proliferation. The entry of private, quasi-public, and public private partnerships has led to what has been called a ‘pluralisation of the state’, as the power and authority of the state are shared with a multitude of non-state actors. This raises a plethora of questions regarding accountability, regulation, and public interest. Which of these actors is accountable to citizens and elected governments? Do the same standards apply to them as do to state actors? What are the terms on which power is shared between them? How are the non-state actors to be regulated? What are the implications for the role of the state in this changing dynamic? Most importantly, as Minnow (2003), notes, ‘what happens to the scope and content of public values when public commitments proceed through private agents?’ In a country such as India, where persistent social inequalities continue to pose a challenge, the entry of non-state actors is not a simple matter of increasing resources. As we enter a new era with a new education policy, conversations on how best to manage the trade-offs have thus become pertinent. This panel bolstered/added to/deepened that conversation by bringing together enlightened and experienced minds to debate the different aspects of this issue.

The panel was organised as part of the second edition of CPR Dialogues, held on 2nd and 3rd March 2020 at the India Habitat Centre. Addressing the theme of Policy Perspectives for 21st-century India, CPR Dialogues 2020 provided a window to the India of the future. Experts from around the country and the world engaged with and debated these very significant development and policy challenges that India faces in the coming decade.

ThePrint India was the digital partner for the event.

Videos of other panel discussions organised as part of CPR Dialogues 2020 can be found below:

CPR Dialogues 2020- Inaugural Address by Hon’ble Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
CPR Dialogues 2020- At the Threshold of a New Decade: Navigating the Emerging Geopolitical Landscape
CPR Dialogues 2020- Rights in Times of AI: Emerging Technologies and the Public Law Framework
CPR Dialogues 2020- What Would Happen if We Were to Believe in Indian Agriculture?
CPR Dialogues 2020- Creating an Inclusive Economy in a Digital World
CPR Dialogues 2020- What Would it Take to Build a 21st-century State for India? Launch of CPR’s State Capacity Initiative
CPR Dialogues 2020- Technology and Administrative Reform: Experience from India and the World
CPR Dialogues 2020- Tracking Government Spending: Challenges in Social Policy Financing
CPR Dialogues 2020- The Air Pollution Crisis: Making Political Salience Count
CPR Dialogues 2020- Article 21 and India’s Social and Economic Rights
CPR Dialogues 2020- Emerging Trends in Indian Politics
CPR Dialogues 2020- Are India’s Financial Institutions in Crisis? Understanding India’s Economic Slowdown
CPR Dialogues 2020- The Role of Ideas in Shaping Policy
CPR Dialogues 2020- Indo-US Relations
CPR Dialogues 2020- Land and the Constitution: Solving Land Conflict in India
CPR Dialogues 2020- Political Elites and Local Bureaucratic Capacity

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CPR ECONOMY TECHNOLOGY

Watch the full video (above) of the panel discussion on ‘Creating an Inclusive Economy in a Digital World’ featuring Himanshu Wardhan (Managing Director, Etsy India); Rituparna Chakraborty (Co-founder & Executive Vice President, TeamLease Services); Berges Y Malu (Director, Public Policy & Policy Communications, ShareChat) and moderated by Sabina Dewan (Senior Visiting Fellow, CPR; President & Executive Director, JustJobs Network).

As the 21st-century progresses, India, along with the rest of the world, is witnessing the unfolding of rapid and significant technological change. This Fourth Industrial Revolution, as it is often called, is restructuring our labour markets. Against this backdrop, this panel explored how technology is changing the nature of work, and especially its implications for the workforce participation of women, who constitute half of the working-age population. It is essential to understand how the demand for workers will change and how the productive potential of women can be harnessed if technology has to be leveraged in service of development and growth.

The panel was organised as part of the second edition of CPR Dialogues, held on 2nd and 3rd March 2020 at the India Habitat Centre. Addressing the theme of Policy Perspectives for 21st-century India, CPR Dialogues 2020 provided a window to the India of the future. Experts from around the country and the world engaged with and debated these very significant development and policy challenges that India faces in the coming decade.

ThePrint India was the digital partner for the event.

An article on how India can create an inclusive economy, written by Sabina Dewan in ThePrint can be read here.

Videos of other panel discussions organised as part of CPR Dialogues 2020 can be found below:

CPR Dialogues 2020- Inaugural Address by Hon’ble Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
CPR Dialogues 2020- At the Threshold of a New Decade: Navigating the Emerging Geopolitical Landscape
CPR Dialogues 2020- Rights in Times of AI: Emerging Technologies and the Public Law Framework
CPR Dialogues 2020- What Would Happen if We Were to Believe in Indian Agriculture?
CPR Dialogues 2020- What Would it Take to Build a 21st-century State for India? Launch of CPR’s State Capacity Initiative
CPR Dialogues 2020- Technology and Administrative Reform: Experience from India and the World
CPR Dialogues 2020- Tracking Government Spending: Challenges in Social Policy Financing
CPR Dialogues 2020- The Air Pollution Crisis: Making Political Salience Count
CPR Dialogues 2020- Article 21 and India’s Social and Economic Rights
CPR Dialogues 2020- Challenges in Public Education: Balancing State and Non-State Actors
CPR Dialogues 2020- Emerging Trends in Indian Politics
CPR Dialogues 2020- Are India’s Financial Institutions in Crisis? Understanding India’s Economic Slowdown
CPR Dialogues 2020- The Role of Ideas in Shaping Policy
CPR Dialogues 2020- Indo-US Relations
CPR Dialogues 2020- Land and the Constitution: Solving Land Conflict in India
CPR Dialogues 2020- Political Elites and Local Bureaucratic Capacity

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CPR POLITICS

Watch the full video (above) of the panel discussion on ‘Emerging Trends in Indian Politics’ featuring Vandita Mishra (National Opinion Editor, Indian Express); Mukulika Banerjee (Director, South Asia Centre, LSE); Mukund Padmanabhan (Consultant & Former Editor, The Hindu); Gilles Verniers (Senior Visiting Fellow, CPR & Co-Director, TCPD, Ashoka University); presentation by Rahul Verma (Fellow, CPR) and moderated by Neelanjan Sircar (Senior Visiting Fellow, CPR & Assistant Professor, Ashoka Univeristy).

The rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at the centre stage of Indian politics is marked by multiple shifts. India is undergoing a massive demographic transition as more members of the electorate are part of the middle class, living in urban areas, more educated, and more exposed to media sources. Furthermore, the BJP’s social base over the past two decades has undergone a transformation. The magnitude of the BJP’s victory in 2019 also restructured the competitive political space. While on the one hand, the BJP seems to be on the back foot in state elections, on the other, the party’s ideological hegemony seems to be at its peak. Rahul Verma from the CPR politics team made a brief presentation on the issue, analysing the emerging contours of Indian politics, followed by reflections and insights from the panellists.

The panel was organised as part of the second edition of CPR Dialogues, held on 2nd and 3rd March 2020 at the India Habitat Centre. Addressing the theme of Policy Perspectives for 21st-century India, CPR Dialogues 2020 provided a window to the India of the future. Experts from around the country and the world engaged with and debated these very significant development and policy challenges that India faces in the coming decade.

ThePrint India was the digital partner for the event.

An article on the changing political landscape in India, written by Rahul Verma, Neelanjan Sircar and Gilles Verniers in ThePrint can be read here.

Videos of other panel discussions organised as part of CPR Dialogues 2020 can be found below:

CPR Dialogues 2020- Inaugural Address by Hon’ble Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
CPR Dialogues 2020- At the Threshold of a New Decade: Navigating the Emerging Geopolitical Landscape
CPR Dialogues 2020- Rights in Times of AI: Emerging Technologies and the Public Law Framework
CPR Dialogues 2020- What Would Happen if We Were to Believe in Indian Agriculture?
CPR Dialogues 2020- Creating an Inclusive Economy in a Digital World
CPR Dialogues 2020- What Would it Take to Build a 21st-century State for India? Launch of CPR’s State Capacity Initiative
CPR Dialogues 2020- Technology and Administrative Reform: Experience from India and the World
CPR Dialogues 2020- Tracking Government Spending: Challenges in Social Policy Financing
CPR Dialogues 2020- The Air Pollution Crisis: Making Political Salience Count
CPR Dialogues 2020- Article 21 and India’s Social and Economic Rights
CPR Dialogues 2020- Challenges in Public Education: Balancing State and Non-State Actors
CPR Dialogues 2020- Are India’s Financial Institutions in Crisis? Understanding India’s Economic Slowdown
CPR Dialogues 2020- The Role of Ideas in Shaping Policy
CPR Dialogues 2020- Indo-US Relations
CPR Dialogues 2020- Land and the Constitution: Solving Land Conflict in India
CPR Dialogues 2020- Political Elites and Local Bureaucratic Capacity