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The
Bizarre State of Western Democracy |
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| Sep
9th 2024, Prabhat Patnaik |
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| During
the entire post-war period when it has been in existence in
the metropolitan countries, democracy has never been in as
bizarre a state as it is today. Democracy is supposed to mean
the pursuit of policies that are in conformity with the wishes
of the electorate. |
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| The
Criminality of Unilateral Sanctions |
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| Sep
2nd 2024, Prabhat Patnaik |
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| During
Modi’s visit to Ukraine (why he visited Ukraine at all at
the present time remains a mystery), Zelensky asked India
not to purchase fuel from Russia in violation of western sanctions,
that is, to fall in line with the “unilateral” western sanctions. |
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| Africa-China
Economic Relations: The next phase |
| Sep
17th 2024. C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh |
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The
FOCAC summit suggests that China is entering a new phase of
economic relations with Africa, with more targeted investments
reflecting changed global realities. |
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| The
Chinese Threat in Critical Minerals |
| Sep
4th 2024. C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh |
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China's
restrictions of a year ago on export of critical materials
may not have yet been disruptive. But the speculative price
increases they have triggered could explain renewed concerns
about supply. |
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Budget
2024-25 |
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| The
Function of Neoliberal Budgets |
| Aug
5th 2023, 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 2023, 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 2023, 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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