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Chronic Diseases: An Emerging Threat to Health and the Economy
The latest regional event in Mumbai India, "Chronic Diseases: An Emerging Threat to Health and the Economy," brought together a collection of the brightest minds from the field of public health with some of the most well-respected players in the Indian healthcare
industry at the HBS India Classroom at the Taj Land's End Hotel in Bandra on March 16.
Co-sponsored by the Harvard School of Public Health, the South Asia Initiative, and Harvard Business School India Research Center, the event consisted of two panel discussions and lunch that sought to accurately depict the non-communicable disease problem as it pertains to South Asia and the World and then to posit ways of tackling these challenges, with a focus on the region. Read More.
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UPCOMING SAI EVENTS
SOUTH ASIA WITHOUT BORDERS SEMINAR SERIES
 TODAY: Friday, March 23, 2012 at 4:00 pm
Faith, Loyalty, Status:
Mughal-era perspectives on elite Rajput conversions to Islam
Speaker: Ramya Sreenivasan, Associate Professor, South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy; Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies
Room S153, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA
Co-Sponsored by the Department of South Asian Studies
URBANIZATION SEMINAR SERIES
 Thursday, March 29 at 4:00 pmMumbai Port Project: A Student Seminar Event
Co-Discussants: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor and Chair, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design
and Nicolas P. Retsinas, Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School; Lecturer in Housing, Harvard Graduate School of Design
S153, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA
Mumbai's historic port in the heart of Mumbai was the subject of this year's REAI joint studio/field study during the January term. The main port of Mumbai has moved across the bay, opening up redevelopment of the 1400 acre area occupied by the historic port. Students from the Harvard Business School, the Graduate School of Design, the Harvard Law School, and the Harvard Kennedy School worked in interdisciplinary teams and selected sites within the port area that were of interest to them for redevelopment.
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Microfinance - Does Pakistan's Akhuwat have the Answers?
Friday, March 23 at 3:30 pm
Harvard Business School (Hawes Hall Room 202)
Amjad Saqib, Executive Director of Microfinance Institution Akhuwat
Michael Chu, Senior Lecturer in the Initiative on Social Enterprise of the General Management Group of HBS
Asim Khwaja, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Tarun Khanna, SAI Director, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor HBS
Co-sponsors: South Asia Initiative, Harvard Pakistan Student Group Pakistan Speaker Series, HKS Pakistan Caucus.
Microfinance institutions have come under severe criticism lately, blamed globally for causing economic crises for their borrowers and disrupting the social fabric. The panel will bring to light these problems, and explore a rather unique micro-credit model being followed by Akhuwat, a Pakistan based microfinance institution. The Akhuwat model is unique because its microloans are interest free, operations are carried out entirely through religious institutions, and philanthropy from the civil society plays a predominant role. The organization has been in operation for more than 10 years and has disbursed more than 18 million US dollars, with a recovery rate of 99.85%. The discussion will be led by Exec. Director of Akhuwat, Dr. Amjad Saqib as the panel focuses overall on strengths and limitations of the Akhuwat model. For more information: www.akhuwat.org.pk.
Parallel Connections: Music and Dance in South Asia
Friday, March 23, 2012
Reception and Exhibition
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm at the CGIS Knafel Concourse, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA
Panel Discussion
7:00 pm at the Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA
Welcome Remarks: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy; Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies
Chair: Laura Weinstein, Ananda Coomaraswamy Curator of South Asian Art and Islamic Art, Museum of Arts, Boston
Visual Arts: Pragati Sharma, Jyoti Joshi, Don Perrault, and Sunanda Sahay, Music: Warren Senders, Dance:Ranjani Saigal
Co-Sponsored with LearnQuest and the Government of Orissa, India
South Indian Classical Music Concert
Sunday, March 25, 2012, at 3:00 PM
The Harvard University Department of Music presents a South Indian Classical Music Concert featuring Suhas Rao, vocals, Rasika Murali, violin, and Umayalpuram Mali, mridangam.
Sunday, March 25, 2012, at 3:00 PM.
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge MA
This event is free and open to the public. View poster here.
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Announcements
Evidence for Policy Design Research Associate Position Openings in Pakistan and India
* Research Associate - Property Tax Project and Punjab Skills Project (Pakistan). Center for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP), with Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) at Harvard. Read More.
* Research Associate - Emissions Trading Project (India). JPAL South Asia in collaboration with Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) at Harvard University. Read More.
* Research Associate - Bihar NREGA Project (India) JPAL South Asia. Read More.
* Research Associate - Impact Evaluation of PKGFS Project (India)
The Center for Microfinance, with Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) at Harvard University. Read More.
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