Panel discussion on the new book "Informal Women Workers in the Global South" with Jayati Ghosh, Martha Chen, Diane Elson, Pasuk Phongpaichit, Dzodzi Tsikata, Hameda Deedat, and C.P. Chandrasekhar.

Panel discussion on the new book "Informal Women Workers in the Global South" with Jayati Ghosh, Martha Chen, Diane Elson, Pasuk Phongpaichit, Dzodzi Tsikata, Hameda Deedat, and C.P. Chandrasekhar.

Vikas Rawal discusses why the farmers are opposing the Agriculture Laws in India, the social and class basis of the resistance and the potential changes it can bring about in the direction of state policies.

Catch BOOM's Govindraj Ethiraj in conversation with Economics Prof. Jayati Ghosh & Former Governor of RBI, Raghuram Rajan.

In an interview serving as the first wake-up call to the damages of coronavirus lockdown on the economy, Prof Jayati Ghosh says more damage has already been done in two days of lockdown than by demonetisation since it happened in November 2016.

Despite all the blatant attempts to fudge the data, it is clear that this budget will not provide the required fiscal stimulus to kick-start the economy. The few benefits of this budget will go to a handful of crony capitalists and the people of India will continue to suffer worsening economic conditions, only to be distracted by cries of nationalism.

In the wake of RBI's decision to transfer Rs 1.76 lakh crore to the government as per the recommendations of the Bimal Jalan-led committee; and Modi Government's the decision to merge 10 Public Sector Banks to carve out for large banks, a public debate titled 'RBI's Reserve Fund Transfer & Banks Mergers: A Loot or Boost?' was organised by Financial Accountability Network India, a collective of civil society organisations, unions, people's movements, students, teachers and concerned citizens to highlight the issues of accountability and transparency of the national financial institutions.

What are some of the challenges faced by women in agriculture in India? What are the possible ways out of the agrarian crisis, that is hurting women farmers and agricultural workers the hardest? A panel discussion was organised by Focus on the Global South, Economic Research Foundation in collaboration with Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung –South Asia. This video provides a glimpse of the discussion.

Are the budget figures reliable or are they misleading and perhaps arguably false?

That's the question we address in this interview with Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University Jayati Ghosh.

Prashant Bhushan speaks on Current Threats to the Constitution at Krishna Bharadwaj Memorial Lecture 2019 jointly organised by Faculty of CESP JNU and JNUTA at SIS New Building, JNU on Thursday, 14 March 2019, 4-30 p.m.

Prof. Amartya Sen released a volume on the Indian economy under the Modi sarkar edited by Dipa Sinha, Shouvik Chakraborty, Srinivasan Ramani and Rohit Azad. It is a collection of 14 articles on almost every aspect of this government done in a simple objective fashion. The authors have let the data speak for themselves! Prof. Amartya Sen, Prof. Gopalkrishna Gandhi, C. Rammanohar Reddy and Prof. Zoya Hassan were in conversation with Prof. Jayati Ghosh. 3-00 to 5-00 p.m., Wednesday, 27 Feb 2019, Alliance Francaise de Delhi.

Jayati Ghosh speaks on the employment crisis, which is essentially the result of inadequate demand in India. Labour-displacing technological change is a problem not in itself but because it occurs in a neoliberal economic context, in which public spending on employment-intensive activities is constrained.