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Disempowering
the People |
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| Dec
23rd 2024, Prabhat Patnaik |
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| The
aim of all fascistic governments is to disempower the people;
and the Modi government is no exception. The Mahatma Gandhi
National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) which
promised one member in every rural household a maximum of
100 days of employment per year was a demand-driven scheme.
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| The
Hegemony of the Dollar |
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| Dec
16th 2024, Prabhat Patnaik |
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| Kliberal
opinion holds that the international monetary and financial
system is a device for promoting the interests of all participating
countries by providing a convenient payments arrangement within
which trade can be carried on. |
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| What
does "Global Growth" actually Mean? |
| Dec
10th 2024. C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh |
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Looking
at aggregate global economic growth obscures important changes
in the world economy, especially if these are analysed using
actual market exchange rates. The recent period has seen a
reassertion of the western countries as major drivers of global
growth, and a relative decline of Asia. |
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| The
COP29 Collapse |
| Nov
26th 2024. C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh |
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The
collapse of COP29, slated as a climate finance summit, should
come as no surprise. Developed countries had shown in multiple
ways that when it comes to the crunch they would walk away. |
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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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