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Penn School of Arts and Sciences Monday, February 17, 2020


CASI in the News

Duvvuri Subbarao (CASI Distinguished International Fellow) published "It’s a Relief FM Did Not Succumb to Spending Our Way Out of the Growth Slump" in the February 12, 2020 issue of The Indian Express.


Focused Health Care Factories: An Answer to India’s Patient-Rich and Resource-Poor Health Care Ecosystem

Swaminathan Subramaniam
February 17, 2020

In this issue of India in Transition, Swaminathan Subramaniam (independent health care industry consultant) presents a case for Focused Health Care Factories as a means for India to cater to the exploding demand for affordable, high-quality tertiary health care.

Full Article

*Interested in writing for IiT? Now open for submissions*


CASI Student Programs

APPLY NOW for CASI's 2020 Travel Funds for Research competition!
CASI will provide up to $3,500 to Penn graduate students and $3,000 to Penn undergraduate students to conduct independent research projects in India over the summer.

Student Photo Contest: Winning Photos Now Displayed at CASI
The winning photos for the 2019-20 academic year can be viewed HERE!
By highlighting India's immense diversity through the lens of the Penn community, we want to see India through the eyes of our students. The winning photos are professionally printed and displayed at CASI.

Read about the experiences of the 2019 Summer Interns and Travel Funds Recipients on the CASI Student Programs Blog. To receive as an email, go to casistudentprograms.com and enter your email on the bottom left “+follow” icon.

Learn More:

View the CASI Student Programs Video and follow CASI Student Programs on Instagram @casistudentprograms

 
Questions about CASI Student Programs?
Please contact Laura Iwanyk, Assistant Director, CASI Student Programs and Outreach, liwanyk@upenn.edu

 


Upcoming Events

February 20, 2020, 12:00-1:30 p.m. at CASI

"Informal Sector Workers and the Politics of FDI: A Conjoint Experiment in India"

CASI Seminar with Nita Rudra (Professor of Government, Georgetown University)

February 27, 2020, 12:00-1:30 p.m. at CASI

"Economic Development, the Nutrition Trap, and Metabolic Disease"

CASI Seminar with Kaivan Munshi (Professor of Economics, Yale University)


March 3, 2020, 5:00-6:30 p.m. at Perry World House

"Climate Change in India: Supersizing Risks for India’s Poor"

CASI-Perry World House co-sponsored Nand & Jeet Khemka Distinguished Lecture with Somini Sengupta (The New York Times)

March 19, 2020, 12:00-1:30 p.m. at CASI

"Urbanism at Water’s Edge: The Fluid Histories of Property in Calcutta"

CASI Book Talk with Author Debjani Bhattacharyya (Assistant Professor of History, Drexel University)


Campus Location

CASI's office is located close to the heart of Penn's campus at the Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science & Economics at 133 South 36th Street (Suite 230) Philadelphia, PA 19104-6215.


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