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ZHCES organises a seminar by Dr. Li Yang and Mr. Nitin Kumar Bharti

ZHCES organises a seminar by Dr. Li Yang and Mr. Nitin Kumar Bharti

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TOPIC:  "Human Capital Accumulation in China and India in 20th Century"


SPEAKERS:

Dr. Li Yang
Postdoctoral Fellow, Paris School of Economics, France
And
Mr. Nitin Kumar Bharti
Research Fellow, Paris School of Economics, France

 

About the Speaker: Li Yang is the Coordinator for East and South Asia at at the World Inequality Lab and Stone research fellow at INSEAD. He works on income and wealth inequality, economic development and economic history.

Nitin Kumar Bharti  is a Research Fellow at the World Inequality Lab. He is a PhD Student at Paris School of University and University of Namur. His research is broadly related to two fields - development economics (early childhood and judiciary) and economic history (long run evolution in - wealth inequality, education).

 

Abstract:  In this paper we study the evolution of modern education in China and India and compare several quantitative and qualitative educational outcomes in the last 100-120 years. The interesting patterns we highlight are: China’s bottom-up approach versus India’s top-down approach, China's broad-based vocational education whereas poorly developed vocational education system of India, China producing more engineering graduates versus India producing more humanities graduates. We conjecture that engineering and vocational graduates helped China in developing the manufacturing sector, whereas elitist education of India created a niche economic sector like IT. Further we show a high skill premium for higher education in India compared to China is fuelling more income inequality in India.

 

DATE: 28 April, 2021 (Wednesday)

TIME: 4:00 pm

Link to join online talk: meet.google.com/otm-egsx-yrm

 

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Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.