CfP: Conference on Inclusive Development: Role of Employment and Environment by NLSIU Bangalore: Submit by Jan 15

06 Jan 2023

Categories: Call for Papers Conferences & Seminars

About NLSIU

The National Law School of India University, or simply the National Law School, is a public law school and a National Law University located in Bangalore.

About Young Scholars Initiative

It is a community of 19693 students, young professionals, and researchers from across the globe pursuing new and critical ways of thinking about the economy.

About Institute for New Economic Thinking

The Institute for New Economic Thinking is a New York City–based nonprofit think tank. It was founded in October 2009 as a result of the 2007–2012 global financial crisis and runs a variety of affiliated programs at major universities such as the Cambridge-INET Institute at the University of Cambridge.

About the Conference

The conference is on ‘Inclusive Development: Role of Employment and Environment.’ It will focus on inclusive development, especially the role of employment opportunities in a changing world of work and the environment in envisioning inclusiveness.

About the Theme

Inclusive growth has been evoked in government plans and policy briefs across developing and developed countries over the last decade. While there is still limited consensus in the academic discourse on what constitutes ‘inclusiveness’, it is nearly universally accepted that it is desirable.

Further, there has been a call for inclusive development going beyond the assessment of poverty, economic inequality, and employment opportunities. Dimensions included in inclusive development can span from labour productivity and infrastructure to intergenerational equity and sustainability.

The conference proposes to explore this idea further by discussing desirable growth outcomes that ought to be considered indispensable to inclusive development. How do capability-enhancing services (such as access to health and education) affect inclusiveness and how inclusive have these services been?

With this background, the conference aims to focus on how environment-related outcomes must also feature in inclusive development.

What additional inputs does inclusiveness bring to sustainable development discussions?
How is public utility provisioning affected by pollution and inequalities? In turn, how are the current patterns of consumption and production patterns affecting these utilities as well as contributing to pollution?
Beyond the carbon capture debates regarding pollution and climate change, how can local-level pollution be addressed while accounting for socioeconomic inequalities?

Topics

How technological change may impact job quality and working conditions in emerging countries?
In the context of developing economies, how inclusive has the access to educational programs providing labour market skills been across various horizontal decompositions (including social groups and language based) and how does this prepare its workforce in the new era of technological advancement?
Do international trade patterns mitigate/accelerate the risk of automation in developing countries?
What are the changing nature of jobs/tasks and occupational classification codes in emerging countries?

Submission Guidelines

Abstracts should be clear, and concise, and provide sufficient detail to be understood in isolation from the paper.

A suggested generic formula is as follows:

Background context;
Specific knowledge gaps the work aims to fill and/or the research question explored;
Methods or approach used and sources of data;
Key findings, conclusions or observations (where possible findings should be given in context or, if applicable, quantified);
Implications or applications of the work.

Abstracts should not exceed ca. 500 words excluding a maximum of three references. An individual cannot submit more than one abstract.

Financial Support

A limited number of scholars from South Asia will receive financial assistance to cover travel and accommodation. All papers must be submitted within the deadlines without exception. The full paper should pass a reasonable peer review standard and plagiarism check.

Papers will be rejected if they fail to comply with the requirements. In the event that the young scholar is unable to present his/her paper in person, no other individuals or co-authors will be allowed to present the paper in place of the young scholar. No virtual presentations will be allowed.