Treatise 2010

“…climate change negotiations have become less about fashioning a truly collaborative global response to a planetary challenge and more about safeguarding and promoting competitive economic interests.”
Shyam Saran – India’s special envoy on Climate Change

While prima-facie it appears that it is the west which is playing a high-handed role in deciding the rules of the game on the emissions turf, the emerging economies too have been acting evasively. When the engine of the world’s growth is the emerging economies, it is, perhaps, time they stopped acting as the deprived younger sibling.

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Throughout history, India has remained at the forefront of evolution, development and growth.  Viewed through glasses tinted with science and mathematics, literature, arts, or trade and commerce, the country seems to represent the fountainhead of knowledge.  Hence the metaphor, “Sone ki Chidiya”.  But in recent times, this metaphor has assumed wider implications.  Do these implications represent an oxymoron of sorts?  Do we have reason to believe that this description holds as true today as it did a few centuries ago?

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There are many economic models which may be used to characterize and determine the rate of growth of an economy.  The one which projects the golden growth trajectory of India employs Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) as a pivotal factor.  In analyzing this growth model, the question of sustainability needs to be asked.  Such an all-round analysis of this model throws up unexpected answers, with not every answer being as rosy as previously thought.  Is India really heralding the new age of a global shift in economic power?
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Prizes to be won at Treatise

Prizes worth upto INR 5000 can be won by non-finalists/non-participants for posting their comments on the 7 topics (No limits on the number of comments posted by an individual)

Timelines for Submission

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Event Details

• The event will be held in two phases
• First phase
• Teams are required to submit a well researched article arguing either for or against any one, two or all of the topics provided at Debate Topics link
• However, each team can submit only one article per topic
• The document (in pdf/doc format) must be uploaded at treatise.iimlmanfest.com (submit entry link) and mailed to treatise@iimlmanfest.com in and must be named as _.pdf/doc

E.g. For a team named Halo submitting an article on the first topic, the document must be named as: 1_Halo.pdf

• Select articles will be published on the Treatise portal after submission
• On the basis of the submissions, the top 7 teams will be shortlisted for the final round
• Second phase – details provided in the attached document
• The winners will be declared as “International Thought Champions”
• Prizes: Winning Team: INR 50,000 | Runners-up: INR 20,000 | Phase 2 Comment prizes worth INR 5,000

Participation
• Participation in this event is open to all, irrespective of occupation, age and nationality
• Participants are required to form teams of up to 3 members
• Members of a team need not be from the same institute/organization
• One participant can be a member of only one team
• Registration is not required for participation
• Please see the attached document for more rules and regulations

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Congratulations !

The following 7 teams have been selected for phase 1 of Treatise (in alphabetical order):

All The above teams have to send their confirmation of participation to treatise@iimlmanfest.com by 23:59:59 IST on January 2, 2010. Failing this, one of the following teams will be selected as finalists (in the order displayed.)

Waitlisted teams are also requested to send an email to treatise@iimlmanfest.com to confirm their participation in the situation that one or more of the finalist teams chooses not to carry on.