| Suman K. Bery — The Indian Economy, the Global Financial System, and the G20 |
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“Up until now India’s financial system has held up…but the global crisis has certainly shaken the faith of India policy-makers in models for financial sector development that previously existed,” says Suman K. Bery, Director General of India’s National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER). During a public presentation at IDRC on April 22, 2009, Bery discussed the effects of the global economic downturn on India, and the role of the country’s intellectual community in helping India adapt to a new world order. “It’s not clear to me that the political and intellectual system is as aware of India’s emerging centrality in the global order as it should be, and that raises an intellectual challenge for institutions like mine.”  NCAER is one of India’s most distinguished non-profit independent economic research organizations and a long-standing IDRC partner. As director general, Bery advises India’s government and financial communities and is a respected commentator on Indian economic issues.
Before joining NCAER, Bery was the lead economist for Brazil at the World Bank. From 1992 to 1994, he was Special Consultant to the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, based in Mumbai. Bery holds a masters of public and international affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. The event was the 10th instalment in IDRC’s year-long series, The India Lectures, which marks the 25th anniversary of the opening of IDRC’s South Asia regional office in New Delhi. As part of the series, IDRC also hosted distinguished sinologist Alka Acharya, journalist Anand Giridharadas, and security expert Stephen P. Cohen, among others. IDRC has supported research for development in India since its founding, nearly 40 years ago. The opinions expressed here reflect those of the speaker alone, and not necessarily those of the International Development Research Centre.
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