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Monthly Archives: March 2021

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Do Formalisation Policies help Women Workers?

  • March 31, 2021
  • Macroscan Team
  • Development Economics
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One Year since the First Lockdown: India’s unfolding crisis

  • March 23, 2021
  • Macroscan Team
  • Development Economics
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US Stimulus: Setting a new agenda?

  • March 22, 2021
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar
  • Macroeconomics
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With President Joe Biden having put through Congress and signed a $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, the world is set to experience one of the biggest fiscal boosts of recent times, larger than that resorted to in response to the…

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Privatising Indian Insurance

  • March 22, 2021
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar
  • Finance
  • 0 Comments

With the cabinet approving amendments to the Insurance Act of 1938, to raise the cap on foreign direct investment (FDI) in insurance companies from 49 to 74 per cent, the process of implementing the next stage of reducing public control…

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Webinar : Financialization and the Crisis of Capitalism

  • March 17, 2021
  • Macroscan Team
  • Development Economics
  • 0 Comments

On Mar 20, 2021 at 06:30 PM (IST) The Rethinking Economics India Network is hosting a four-part series of events on Capitalism and Patriarchy. The opening event is on Financialization and the Crisis of Capitalism. It aims to bring to…

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Fiscal Policy in a Bind

  • March 15, 2021
  • Prabhat Patnaik
  • Macroeconomics
  • 0 Comments

Even the blinkered BJP government sees the need for a fiscal policy that would stimulate the economy by increasing government expenditure; but it finds itself in a bind since it does not know how to finance such larger government expenditure.…

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Worrying Spike in Global Food Prices

  • March 9, 2021
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
  • World Economy
  • 0 Comments

Having recovered from their lows touched early or mid-2020, food prices are rising fast. At $574.8 a metric tonne in February 2021, the price of soyabean was 53 per cent higher than the corresponding month of 2020, when the effects…

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The Political Economy of Covid-19 Vaccines

  • March 6, 2021
  • Jayati Ghosh
  • Political Economy
  • 0 Comments

The Covid-19 pandemic has been unusual in several ways: the disproportionate extent to which people in rich countries (particularly in Europe and North America) have been affected; the sheer scale of the policy response for containment; and the speed and…

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Europe could make good use of a New SDR Allocation

  • March 1, 2021
  • Jayati Ghosh
  • Finance
  • 0 Comments

In their saner moments, most progressives in the European Union might concede that the bloc has not acquitted itself very well as a global player during the pandemic. To be sure, it has finally displayed some good sense in looking…

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Fifteenth Finance Commission: A neoliberal boost to fiscal centralization

  • March 1, 2021
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar
  • Macroeconomics
  • 0 Comments

The headlines suggest that the 15th Finance Commission (15th FC) has not let down the states when deciding on their constitutionally mandated share in the divisible pool of the Centre’s tax revenues over 2021-26. It has more or less stuck…

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