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"Robert Aumann on ‘War and Peace’ " |
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Professor Robert Aumann, the Nobel Prize winner for Economics in 2005, delivered a lecture on ‘War and Peace’ at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi. |
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"Avinash Dixit on ‘Game Theory’ " |
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Avinash Dixit, the John J. Sherrerd University Professor of Economics at Princeton University, gave a lecture on ‘Game Theory’ at IDF. |
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"Missing
Women And India’s Religious Demography " |
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Vani Borooah of School of Economics and Politics, University of Ulster spoke on the above mentioned topic at IDF on Thursday, February 17, 2005, 11 a.m. |
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"Innovation,
Biotechnology and Patent Participation in the USA" |
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Nathan P Letts gave a presentation
at IDF on the patent laws and procedures in US. Dr. Letts
brings to diaDexus over thirteen years of experience in
biotechnology patent law. Most recently, Dr. Letts was
a patent attorney at Pennie & Edmonds LLP where he spent
nearly five years in the biotechnology practice group
in New York City. Dr. Letts feel that the system of patents
is well defined to a large extent, but at the same time
there is a large scope of improving it further. |
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"Presentation
by Dr. Uma Nambiar on Information and Communication Technologies
in Rural Health Care" |
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Dr.Uma Nambiar, CEO of eHealth Foundation made a presentation on August 23, 2004 on Information and Communication Technologies in Rural Health Care. eHealth Foundation is working by combining social activism with market solutions in order to alleviate the problems of access and quality of health care service to help those isolated by distance and lack of resources. |
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"Patent Licencing by a standard auction in the presence of network externality" |
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Sumit Sarkar of Institute of Technology and Management, Gurgaon spoke on the above mentioned topic at IDF on Monday May 31, 10 a.m. |
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"Solving the Moral Hazard with Rating Agencies" |
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Bappaditya Mukhopadhyay of Management Development Institute, Gurgaon spoke on the above topic at IDF on Monday, May 24, 9.30 a.m. |
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" Ideas, interests and institutions in policy change: a comparison of West Bengal and Gujarat" |
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On April 13th at IDF Aseema Sinha , Assistant Professor of University of Wisconsin-Madison spoke on the above paper. |
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The evolution of policy in the South African pharmaceutical sector in the context of the TRIPS agreement |
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On 22nd of August at 10.30 am at the India Development Foundation, Stephen Gelb spoke on TRIPS and drugs. Stephen is an adviser to the South African Government and Executive Director at The EDGE Institute for economic policy research based in Johannesburg. |
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On financial markets, Professor Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo of the Open Business School |
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Professor Batiz is working on a joint project with OU colleagues, Merryll Lynch (Europe) and AITEG to establish whether the pace and direction of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) points towards either globalisation or integration as the main process that drives European international companies in selected industries (banking, ethical pharmaceuticals [including bio-technology] and internet providers). |
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Round
table on economic reform and the New Zealand
experience: Rt Hon Jim Bolger |
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Mr Jim Bolger Chairman of
the Board of New Zealand Post Ltd, is a former Prime
Minister of New Zealand (1990 - 1997) who presided over
a period of intensive economic reform. IDF arranged a
roundtable for a selective gathering on the 7th of August
at the Conference Room at 249 F, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV
Gurgaon to draw on Mr Bolger's experience of economic
reform. Mr Bolger maintains a close interest in
international trade in agriculture, both in relation to
the New Zealand experience and in his currrent position
as Chairman of the World Agricultural Forum. |
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Report on the talk by Mr. Ben Boothe on "who will own the 21st century"? |
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Ben Boothe, an economic consultant has been active throughout the world on economic restructuring programmes. His background is banking and finance, having worked with Merill Lynch of wall street, and also as the founder of several banks in the USA. He is
the author of 5 books and is currently President of Boothe and Associates Inc. of Ft. Worth, Texas. |
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