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Banga
Hype at the Springs |
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| May
2nd 2024, C.P. Chandrasekhar |
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| Less
than a year back, a former chief executive of Mastercard,
Ajay Banga, was in a surprise move picked to head the World
Bank. Putting a Wall Street player addicted to profits in
charge of a development institution claiming to help lift
poor countries out of their underdevelopment seemed incongruous. |
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| Fetishising
the Growth Rate of GDP |
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| Apr
22nd 2024, Prabhat Patnaik |
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| John
Stuart Mill was among the foremost liberal thinkers of modern
times who wrote extensively on economics and philosophy. Though
under the influence of his wife Harriet Taylor Mill, he came
closer towards socialism late in his life, it was a kind of
cooperative socialism that attracted him; he continues to
be regarded primarily as a pre-eminent liberal thinker. |
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| Water
Flowing Upwards: Net financial flows from developing countries |
| Apr
30th 2024. C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh |
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Both
private and public sources of capital have been disturbingly
procyclical for low and middle income countries, forcing them
to become net providers of financial resources to the North
and to multilateral institutions. |
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| The
True Face of "Aid" |
| Apr
16th 2024. C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh |
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A
spike in Overseas Development Assistance flows from OECD members
is not a departure from a long history of ODA levels that
have fallen far short of a 1970 promise. It is a revelation
of what "aid" really is. |
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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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Budget
2023-24 |
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| Budget
2023-24: Neither growth nor welfare friendly |
| Feb
8th 2023, C.P. Chandrasekhar |
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If
we ignore the hype that accompanies and follows the presentation
of the Centre's annual budget, there are principally two
strands in it that have attracted attention.
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| Budget
2023-24: Ignoring the economy's basic problem |
| Feb
6th 2023, Prabhat Patnaik |
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The
most outstanding feature of the Indian economy today is
the sluggish increase in real consumption expenditure. Between
2019-20 and 2022-23 for instance the per capita real consumption
expenditure has grown by less than 5 per cent which is less
than the rate of growth of the gross domestic product.
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