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LOCATION:Université de Montréal - Carrefour des arts et des sciences\, 31
 50\, rue Jean-Brillant \, Montréal\, QC\, Canada\, H3T 1N8
SUMMARY:Land\, Corruption and Contestation - the political economy of India
 ’s recent growth experience
DESCRIPTION:Conférencier :  Mritiunjoy Mohanty est professeur à l’India
 n Institute of Management Calcutta. Monsieur Mohanty est diplômé du Cent
 re for Economic Studies and Planning\, Jawaharlal Nehru University\, Delhi
 . Ses travaux ont notamment été publié dans le Economic and Politcal We
 ekly.  Résumé :  Between 2003/4 and 2007/8 the Indian economy grew at a 
 historically unprecedented average rate of 8.5%. Even though it slowed dow
 n to around 6% as a consequence of the Great Recession\, it\, like other s
 o-called emerging economies\, has since staged a smart recovery and econom
 ic growth is currently averaging 7.5%. It would seem therefore that\, desp
 ite a somewhat fragile current-account balance\, India has in place all th
 e macroeconomic ingredients for sustained and rapid economic growth. The f
 lip side of this growth however has been a process of deepening immiserisa
 tion and rampant corruption. The immiserisation is on two counts – a neg
 lect of agriculture as a direct consequence of neoliberal reforms\, result
 ing in the increase in the ‘relative surplusness’ of labour in that se
 ctor and therefore the persistence of poverty \; second\, a classic Harvey
 -type accumulation by dispossession\, led by domestic and foreign capital\
 , of peasants and forest dwellers. But as immiserisation deepens and with 
 few opportunities outside land and forests\, so does land hunger\, resulti
 ng in widespread resistance to dispossession. This resistance of peasants 
 and forest-dwellers to dispossession has forced the issue of land acquisit
 ion on to the political agenda. Revelations of elite corruption\, particul
 arly the nexus between politicians\, bureaucrats and the private corporate
  sector in the shaping of policy-making and regulation has led to widespre
 ad revulsion\, particularly among the burgeoning and vocal middle-class. A
 s a result the party-political system faces a serious challenge from a non
 -political movement against corruption and in favour of greater accountabi
 lity. It has also caught the Congress-led coalition government\, with its 
 rhetoric of inclusive growth\, in a cleft stick between neoliberal capital
 ism on the one hand and mobilisation both from below and by the middle cla
 ss on the other. Whereas it is too early to say what might be the denoueme
 nt of these mobilisations\, it has brought to the fore contradictions inhe
 rent in the growth process\, putting in question its sustainability.  Quan
 d ?  Mardi le 17 janvier de 11h30 à 13h00  Où ?  Université de Montréa
 l  Pavillon Lionel-Groulx  3150\, rue Jean-Brillant  Salle C-2059  La conf
 érence se déroulera en français et la période de discussion se tiendra
  en français et en anglais 
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