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The Centre co-organised the first ever
South-Asia meeting of

THE MONT PELERIN SOCIETY
Goa, January 27-30, 2002

Freedom and Development: Making Democracy Work

PROGRAM

Welcome and inaugural addresses
Greg Lindsay: (Welcome address)
Christian Watrin: (Presidential address)
Gurcharan Das: "Our Liberating Nineties"
Session I - Constitutional Government and Institutions of Freedom
Stephen Macedo: "Constitutional Liberty, Citizenship, and Diversity"
Suri Ratnapala: "The Constitution of Liberty at the Dawn of this Century"
Jayprakash Narayan: "Liberty and State: Constitutional Values vs Colonial Instruments"
Chair: Ashok Desai
Session II - Freedom, Development and Prosperity
Chandran Kukathas: "Rights of Culture, Rights of Conscience"
Madhu Kishwar: "Deliberations on Laws, Liberty, and Livelihood:  Towards a Bottom up, Woman Friendly Agenda of Economic Reforms in India"
Jacob Levy: "Culture, Cultural Pluralism, and Freedom

Session III - Threats to Freedom in a Global Age'

Globalisation and Anti-Globalisation

Surjit Bhalla: "Who is Losing Out on Globalisation"
Ian Vasquez:
"Globalisation and the Poor"
Bibek Debroy:
"Globalisation and Anti-Globalisation - An Indian Perspective"
Nadeem Ul Haque
Chair: Greg Lindsay

Global Terrorism and the Liberal Order

William Maley: "Terrorism, Freedom, and Institutions: Reconstructing the State in Afghanistan"
Pramit Pal Choudhuri: "One or Many: Democratic Foreign Policy Responses to Terrorism"
Hadi Soesastro:
"Global Terrorism: Implications on State Security and Human Security"

Session IV - Solving Environmental Dilemmas - the Development Balance

Michael DeAlessi: "Wildlife Conservation and Development: The Property Rights Approach"
Shreekant Gupta: "An Economic Approach to Environmental Policy in India: Beyond Gloom and Doom"
Santhakumar V.: "Will Public Interest Litigations and Citizens' Actions Lead to Sustainable Development?"

Session V - The Extended Social Agenda in the Developing World

Peter Saunders: "What Future for Welfare? "
James Tooley: "Private Education: The Poor's Best Chance?"
Chair: Leonard Liggio

Featured Speakers
  • Swaminathan A. Aiyar, consulting editor The Economic Times, India
  • Surjit Bhalla, Oxus Fund, an investment fund management organisation.
  • Pramit Pal Choudhuri, foreign editor The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, India
  • Gurcharan Das, author of India Unbound, and former CEO of Procter & Gamble India
  • Michael DeAlessi, writes on environment and wildlife issues, and former Director of the Centre for Private Conservation, USA
  • Bibek Debroy, Director, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Contemporary Studies, Delhi, India
  • Ashok V. Desai, Consulting Editor, Business Standard, New Delhi
  • Shreekant Gupta, Fulbright Fellow, Centre for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
  • Nadeem Ul Haque, IMF Resident Representative at the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Colombo
  • Sharad Joshi, founder of Shetkari Sanghatana, one of the largest farmers organisation in the country
  • Madhu Kishwar, Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, and Editor of Manushi, a bimonthly journal on women and development issues
  • Chandran Kukathas, Associate Professor, School of Politics at University College, University of New South Wales and Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
  • Jacob Levy, Assistant Professor, Political Science, university of Chicago, USA
  • Leonard Liggio, Executive Vice-President, Atlas Economic Research Foundation, USA
  • Greg Lindsay, Executive Director, The Centre for Independent Studies, Sydney, Australia
  • Stephen Macedo, Professor at the University Center for Human Values, Louis Marx Hall, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA
  • William Maley, Associate Professor of Politics, University College, University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
  • Jayprakash Narayan, Campaign Coordinator of Lok Satta, a grassroots initiative to promote accountability and transparency in government based in Hyderabad, India
  • Suri Ratnapala, Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for the Legal and Economic Study of Institutions (CLESI), University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
  • V. Santhakumar, Associate Fellow, Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India
  • Peter Saunders, Director of Social Policy Research Programmes at the Centre for Independent Studies, Sydney, Australia
  • Hadi Soesastro, Indonesia
  • James Tooley, Professor of Education Policy, Centre for Market Solutions in Education,
  • University of Newcastle, England
  • Ian Vasquez, Director, Project on Global Economic Liberty, Cato Institute, Washington DC, USA
  • Christian Watrin, President, The Mont Pelerin Society
  • Rajiva Wijesinha, President of the Liberal Party of Sri Lanka

Participants of  THE MONT PELERIN SOCIETY, Special Asian Regional Meeting,Goa, India

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