Tenth annual conference in India.

• Position: Conferences - National Council for Applied Economic Research - Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations - Conference news - Brief article

On January 10-12, 2009, the NBER, India's National Council for Applied Economic Research (NCAER), and the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) sponsored a meeting that united NBER researchers with about thirty economists from Indian universities, research institutions, and government departments. The theme of this year's meeting, the tenth such gathering, was "Sustaining Growth in Troubled Times." NBER President James M. Poterba of MIT organized the conference jointly with Suman Bery of NCAER.

The NBER participants in this meeting were: NBER Board Chairman John Clarkeson; John Y. Campbell, Mihir A. Desai, and Martin S. Feldstein, NBER and Harvard University; Don Fullerton, NBER and University of Illinois; Roger H. Gordon and Michelle J. White, NBER and University of California, San Diego; Abhijit Banerjee, Simon Johnson, and James M. Poterba, NBER and MIT; Anne O. Krueger, NBER and Johns Hopkins University; and Emily Oster, Raghuram...