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Yearly Archives: 2021

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Biden’s Rescue Package

  • February 1, 2021
  • Prabhat Patnaik
  • Political Economy
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Even before taking office, Jo Biden, the new American president, has announced a rescue package of $1.9 trillion, of which as much as $1 trillion will be in the form simply of transfers to the working people. Since the estimated…

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Union Budget 2020-21 and the Issue of the Fiscal ‘Stimulus’

  • January 31, 2021
  • Surajit Mazumdar
  • Finance
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It hardly needs emphasizing that the context for the Union Budget for 2021-22 is an exceptional one. The country continues to face a highly uncertain future on both the pandemic and economic fronts and their mutual impact on each other.…

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Union Budget 2021-22: Increase the Fiscal Deficit

  • January 31, 2021
  • Surajit Das
  • Finance
  • 0 Comments

The union budget for the year 2021-22 would be placed in the parliament on the 1st February in India. This budget would be placed in a context of extreme demand depression following the Covid-19 induced lockdown. The economy needs to…

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Agrarian Change Seminar: ‘Protests against the New Farm Laws in India’

  • January 31, 2021
  • Vikas Rawal
  • Food and Agriculture
  • 0 Comments

In the second half of 2020, while the country was struggling with COVID-19 pandemic and impacts of a crippling 10-week national lockdown, the Indian government enacted three national laws related to agriculture. These laws created a new national framework for…

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Revise the Text of the Budget Speech

  • January 28, 2021
  • Jayati Ghosh
  • Finance
  • 0 Comments

It is that time of year in India, when all eyes and ears turn to the Finance Minister to learn what she will unveil in the annual Union Budget. But it is a moot point whether, even in a year…

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Two Key Numbers to Look Out for in the Upcoming Budget 2021

  • January 27, 2021
  • Jayati Ghosh
  • Finance
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There are really only two numbers to look out for in the forthcoming budget: how much did the government claim to have spent in 2020-21, and how much does it intend to spend in 2021-22. These two numbers will determine…

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Wrecking Fiscal Federalism

  • January 26, 2021
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
  • Macroeconomics
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India’s Constitution puts the bulk of responsibility for the basic goods and services to be provided to citizens on to state governments. That is also why it mandated that independent Finance Commissions be appointed every five years to determine the…

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Fussing over a Non-budget

  • January 25, 2021
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar
  • Macroeconomics
  • 0 Comments

Budgets over the years have become a tiresome spectacle. Much print space and airtime are devoted to the exercise, which on each occasion is presented as an event that would alter the nation’s economic course. Governments and Finance Ministers back…

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A Dangerous Red Herring

  • January 25, 2021
  • Prabhat Patnaik
  • Food and Agriculture
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In its systematic attempt to vilify the farmers’ movement against the three infamous agriculture bills that open peasant agriculture to corporate take-over, the government keeps using the argument that the opposition to these bills is confined to farmers only from…

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The Sobering Disconnect Between a Soaring Sensex and Contractions in the Real Economy

  • January 23, 2021
  • Sunanda Sen
  • Finance
  • 0 Comments

As the Sensex hit the 50,000 mark this week for the first time ever, it is clear that the widening gulf between financial and the real sectors remains a matter of concern, both on grounds of the underlying inequities and…

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