CDB to Host Special Discussion Forum on India The Caribbean Development Bank will host another programme in its series "A Special CDB Discussion Forum" on the topic "Understanding India's Recent Growth Spurt". This Forum will be held at the Bank's Conference Centre at its headquarters in Wildey, St. Michael, Barbados on Friday, March 2, beginning at 10:30 a.m. The featured speaker will be Professor Devesh Kapur, Director of the Centre for the Advanced Study of India and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds the Madan Lol Sobti Professorship for the Study of Contemporary India. Professor Kapur's research focuses on human capital, national and international public institutions and the ways in which local-global linkages affect political and economic change in developing countries. He has focused in particular on India and the impact of international institutions and diasporas on India.He is completing a book manuscript under contract with Princeton University Press entitled "Democracy, Death and Diamonds: The Impact of Migration from India on India". Professor Kapur is the author and co-author of many publications and papers including "The World Bank: Its First Half Century" and "The Reverse Midas Touch? The Indian State and Economic Development: Lessons from the Indian Petrochemical Industry".India has emerged as a global economic power within the last several years, becoming one of the world's fastest growing economies, the world's leading outsourcing destination and beneficiary of a high level of international investment. The Caribbean region may be able to gain some insight from India's experiences with this type of growth as these countries seek to move from developing to developed country status.A CDB Special Discussion Forum is a programme of panel discussions and lectures involving personnel from within and outside the Bank, and is intended to heighten awareness of various issues relevant to Caribbean development and enhanced regional interaction. It is open to interested members of the public.For further information please contact the Information Services Unit at (246) 431- 1778.