The Bizarre State of Western Democracy
Sep 9th 2024, Prabhat Patnaik
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.
The Criminality of Unilateral Sanctions
Sep 2nd 2024, Prabhat Patnaik
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.
Africa-China Economic Relations: The next phase
Sep 17th 2024. C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
The FOCAC summit suggests that China is entering a new phase of economic relations with Africa, with more targeted investments reflecting changed global realities.
The Chinese Threat in Critical Minerals
Sep 4th 2024. C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
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.
Budget 2024-25

The Function of Neoliberal Budgets

Aug 5th 2023, C.P. Chandrasekhar

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.

Budget 2024-25: A frightening obduracy

Jul 29th 2023, Prabhat Patnaik

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.

Union Budget 2024-25 — No signs of learning

Jul 24th 2023, C.P. Chandrasekhar

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.

Young Scholars Conference Political Economy of Contemporary South Asia
October 13-14, 2023 | Berkeley, United States
Jun 14th 2023.
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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