IDPAD End-phase Symposium

24 November 2006

After 25 years of enriching research on alternatives in development the IDPAD programme is coming to and end. Two concluding seminars have been organised to discuss the insights gained from IDPAD research on India’s development today, one in Hyderabad, the other in The Hague.

India is witnessing high economic growth and a successful development of science and technology, which raises new opportunities and opens up new co-operations. Such fast development also harbours new problems and contradictions where existing issues of poverty and inequality meet with new trends in a global context. IDPAD research has brought out increasing disparities and contrasts that pose enormous challenges to the future development of India. Hence, it is an opportune moment for academicians, policy makers and other stakeholders to critically assess India’s development. In the light of increasing inequalities between rural and urban regions and between the rich and the poor that are resulting in complex socio-political dynamics in India, taking a critical account of the achievements and causes for concern is identified as the goal of the IDPAD End Symposia.

IDPAD is a collaboration of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi, and the Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research (WOTRO), The Hague.
Please refer to the IDPAD website for further information at www.idpad.org