Does Political Empowerment Explain Closing Wage Gaps?

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Does Political Empowerment Explain Closing Wage Gaps? Columbia University Program on Indian Economic Policies - Columbia University Academic experts on India discuss reforms aimed at curbing poverty and inequality among the nation's socially disadvantaged. CHAIR: N.K. Singh, Member of Parliament, India Paper 1: Growth, Openness and the Socially Disadvantaged, Megha Mukim (LSE) and Arvind Panagariya (Columbia) Paper 2: The Post-reform Narrowing of Inequality Across Castes: Evidence from the States, Viktoria Hnatkovska and Amartya Lahiri (UBC) Discussant 1: Mary Lovely, Syracuse Discussant 2: Pravin Krishna, Johns Hopkins