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Monthly Archives: December 2015

Home 2015 December

Imperialism’s New Trade-negotiating Strategy

  • December 28, 2015
  • Prabhat Patnaik
  • Economy and Society, Political Economy, Trade and balance of payments
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The WTO has been a major weapon used by the advanced countries to roll back the structures that the third world dirigiste regimes which came into existence after decolonization had erected for achieving a degree of self-reliance. The TRIPS agreement…

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Financial Services under WTO: Disciplining governments and freeing business

  • December 22, 2015
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar
  • Industry, Trade and balance of payments
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Though overshadowed by the deep differences over agricultural subsidies and food security and on the rules governing trade in industrial goods, services were an important bone of contention at WTO’s Nairobi Ministerial Conference over 15-18 December, 2015. Developed countries had…

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The Seventh Pay Commission Report

  • December 14, 2015
  • Prabhat Patnaik
  • Economy and Society, Political Economy
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The central government sets up a Pay Commission about once every ten years to recommend what the structure of salaries, allowances and pensions for its current and retired employees should be. The seventh Pay Commission had been set up accordingly…

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