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GDP-Nationalism |
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| Jan
13th 2025, Prabhat Patnaik |
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| Liberal
opinion is invariably opposed to “nationalism”. It treats
“nationalism” as a homogeneous term that necessarily entails
a non-friendly, non-accommodative and rivalrous attitude towards
other countries. This view however is completely erroneous;
anti-colonial third world nationalism is entirely different
from the nationalism that developed in Europe in the seventeenth
century following the Westphalian Peace Treaties. |
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| The
Strengthening of the Dollar |
| Jan
6th 2025, Prabhat Patnaik |
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The
Indian newspapers have been full of stories about the fall
of the rupee vis-à-vis the US dollar in the last
few days. Just over a month ago, on November 27, the value
of the dollar was Rs 84.559; by December 29, it had risen
to Rs 85.5.
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| What's
really happening with women's employment in India? |
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| Jan
7th 2025. C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh |
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| Recent
increases in employment in India are largely due to a significant
increase in women’s work force participation. But this increase
needs to be interpreted with great caution. |
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| Signals
from the Banking Sector |
| Dec
24th 2024. C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh |
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A
sharp deceleration in credit growth in the first half of this
financial year provides part of the explanation for the growth
slowdown in India which has surprised many. |
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| Jayati
Ghosh: Rebalancing power |
| Dec
10th 2024. |
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The
renowned development economist, Jayati Ghosh, offers an eye-opening
perspective on the different facets of inequality and the
need for systemic change to address them, bringing together
her interests in international trade and finance, employment
patterns in developing countries, as well as issues related
to gender and development. |
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Budget
2024-25 |
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| The
Function of Neoliberal Budgets |
| Aug
5th 2024, C.P. Chandrasekhar |
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With
the short-term, frenzied interest that accompanies annual
budget presentations in India having ended, it is time to
raise issues that were largely ignored in the debate.
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| Budget
2024-25: A frightening obduracy |
| Jul
29th 2024, Prabhat Patnaik |
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There
is massive unemployment in the country that especially afflicts
the youth; there is a huge and persistent inflation in food
prices; there is acute and unprecedented rural distress;
there is a crisis in the petty production sector; and income
and wealth inequality has reached levels where the whole
world is talking about it.
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| Union
Budget 2024-25 — No signs of learning |
| Jul
24th 2024, C.P. Chandrasekhar |
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The
mismatch between the problem at hand and what the Budget
offers is stark be it welfare or even taking care of key
political allies.
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| Young
Scholars Conference Political Economy of Contemporary South
Asia |
| October
13-14, 2023 | Berkeley, United States |
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| Jun
14th 2023. |
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Our
key theme is the political economy of contemporary South Asia.
At the core of these transformations are the fraught and so-called
"truncated transition," where South Asian societies
are not making the transition from farm to factory, but the
rise of informal economies, industrial clusters, in-between
agrarian-urban and peri-urban spaces force us to rethink familiar
transition narratives and to eschew them in favour of more
grounded theories. |
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