Seminar: Anti-Dumping Measures: A Critical Evaluation by Nilanjan Banik
Co-sponsored by the Liberty Institute and the Rajiv Ghandi Institute for Contemporary Studies
3pm, July 12, 2001
RSVP. 3312456, 3755117, 6528244
Time to Dump Anti-Dumping Measures (summary of paper)

April 2001: Announcing the fourth all-Indian The Fountainhead Essay Competition for high school students. In May 2001 we will initiate the first Atlas Shrugged Essay Competition for college and university students.

Also, read the essays from last year's contest winners.

May 2001: Liberty Institute receives Sir Anthony Fisher Memorial Award for Population: The Ultimate Resource.

June 2001: Workshop on water rights and water markets, in collaboration with ARCH, Mangrol in Gujarat.

June 2001: Liberty Institute, follow-up meeting in Satauli (tentative)

June 28 - July 1: Liberty Fund seminar on Bastiat, in France.

We have just published two studies, The Enterprise of Education: Challenges and Opportunities for India, by James Tooley, and When Politics Kills: Malaria and the DDT Story by Dr. Roger Bate and Richard Tren.

See our publications page for more information.

June 4: Lecture by Mark Skousen

May 11
Centre for Civil Society & Liberty Institute present a dialogue on Sustainable Development: The Role of Corporations

4pm - 6pm India Habitat Centre: Silver Oak 2
Panel: Arun Vishwanath, Proctor & Gamble (India), Bombay
Barun Mitra, Liberty Institute, New Delhi
Harpreet Singh Kandra, Tata Energy Research Institute, New Delhi
Chair: Dilip Biswas, Central Pollution Control Board, Govt. of India
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April 21-22: With Sauvik Chakraverti, seminar on population, at Doon School and Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy in Dehradun.

April 25: Globalisation - GMOs in question, International seminar in Paris
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Deepak Lal delivered our 2000 Julian Simon memorial lecture in December.

Liberty Institute celebrated its fifth anniversary with a series of events in the month of March.

Private Inititiatives in Education: Bridging the knowledge divide
Date: March 5, 2001
Speakers: Prof. James Tooley, Dr. Parth Shah, Dr. Sugata Mitra, Mr. Shashank Vira, Mr. Sauvik Chakraverti, Dinesh Singh Chair: Mr. Gurcharan Das.

The Politics of Health Care: Good intentions are not enough
Date: March 6, 10.30 AM
Speakers: Dr. Roger Bate, Dr. Anil Patel, Dr Parth Shah
Chair: Mr. Swaminathan S. A. Ayiar

Intellectual Property: In Need of Protection
Date: March 7, 2001, 2.30 PM
Speakers: Mr. Julian Morris, Prof. Anil Gupta, Mr. Barun Mitra,
Chair: Mr. Bibek Debroy

Liberty Retreat: A gathering of friends and associates of Liberty Institute, at Samode Palace, Rajasthan, March 9-11, 2001, to discuss the past and the present of free market ideas, and to chart a future course for the Institute. (pictures)