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National Seminar on Globalisation and India – Voices from the Ground
December 18-19, 2006, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

CUTS Centre for International Trade, Economics & Environment (CUTS CITEE) is implementing various projects, which include amongst others, 'Grassroots Reachout & Networking in India on Trade and Economics', (GRANITE) and 'Linkages between Trade, Development & Poverty Reduction' (TDP). These projects broadly aim to work towards articulating policy coherence between trade (including India's commitments to international agreements) and national development policies to reduce poverty.

CUTS CITEE and Network of Entrepreneurship & Economic Development (NEED) jointly organised a National Seminar on Globalisation and India: Voices from the Ground in Lucknow, on December 18-19, 2006.

The objective of the seminar was to deliberate and share experiences in generating awareness on the trade-development linkages in different parts of India by exploring the successes and non-successes, including the next step to develop appropriate pro-poor policy responses. The purpose of this seminar was to share the experiences of the ground from the GRANITE and TDP Projects.

The seminar was intended to involve civil society representatives e.g. public interest NGOs, government bodies, research institutions, media persons, and other stakeholders in a meaningful dialogue. It provided a platform to enable these stakeholders to identify gaps, learn from each other and discuss ways to improve linkages between trade and development, and apply the learnings in their respective fields of activities.

This forum provided detailed discussions on major policy issues that are creating opportunities and/or vice-versa for the poor to benefit from globalisation, including deliberations on safety nets in order to insulate the poor from adverse shocks.

• Backgrounder
• Agenda
• List of Participants
• Report
• Presentations:

• Globalisation and India: Voices from the Ground
  – Rashmi Banga, Economist, UNCTAD India Programme

• An Overview of Advocacy Practices
  – Dr. Jayati Srivastava, Associate Professor, CIPOD, Jawaharlal Nehru University

• Impact Assessment of Post-Globalisation Scenario in Mustard Oilseed Sector of Rajasthan
  – Dr. N C Pahariya, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Rajasthan

• Linkages between Trade, Development and Poverty Reduction
  – Prashmita Ghosh, Programme Officer, CUTS CITEE and Suprita Jayaram, Programme Officer, CUTS CITEE

• Linkages between Trade, Development & Poverty Reduction
  – Dr. N C Pahariya and Prashmita Ghosh

• Evaluation: GRANITE Project
  – S.V.Divvaakar, Managing Director, Ace Global Private Limited and Pankaj Agrawal, Director, Ace Global Private Limited

• Globalization and equity: A view from Norway
  – Valter Angell, Senior Researcher, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)

• Voices from the Ground
  – Nishikant Bhalerao, Editor Agrowon