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Author: Prabhat Patnaik

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This author has written 375 articles

Tendency towards the Emergence of an “International” Middle Class

  • May 30, 2022
  • Prabhat Patnaik
  • Political Economy, World Economy
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The chancellor of the exchequer of Britain, whose official residence is only next door to the British prime minister’s, is Rishi Sunak, a person of Indian origin. Britain’s home secretary is Priti Patel, also of Indian origin. The US vice-president…

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The Inhumanity of Capitalism

  • May 16, 2022
  • Prabhat Patnaik
  • Macroeconomics
  • 0 Comments

For over two years now, the world has been facing a pandemic the like of which has not been seen for a century, and which has already taken 15 million lives according to the WHO, without being anywhere near an…

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Food and Decolonisation

  • May 9, 2022
  • Prabhat Patnaik
  • World Economy
  • 0 Comments

Russia and Ukraine together account for 30 per cent of the world’s wheat exports. Many African countries, in particular, are heavily dependent on them for their food supplies, which are now getting disrupted because of the war; and this disruption…

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Reflections on the Sri Lankan Economic Crisis

  • May 2, 2022
  • Prabhat Patnaik
  • Finance, World Economy
  • 0 Comments

So much has been written on the Sri Lankan economic crisis that the facts are by now quite well-known (see for instance C P Chandrasekhar, Frontline April 22): the massive build-up of external debt; the huge Value Added Tax concessions…

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The Hike in Petrol Prices

  • April 4, 2022
  • Prabhat Patnaik
  • Services, World Economy
  • 0 Comments

In the five days ending March 26, petrol and diesel prices in the country had been hiked four times, with more such daily hikes in the offing. On each occasion the hike had been by 80 paise per litre, so…

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The Irony of Sanctions against Russia

  • March 28, 2022
  • Prabhat Patnaik
  • Political Economy
  • 0 Comments

The juggling which US imperialism has to do to maintain its hegemony becomes more bizarre by the day. First, it kept needling Russia (“provoking the bear”) “on behalf of the western alliance” by expanding NATO to its very borders, knowing…

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Globalisation and the Relocation of Capital and Labour

  • March 21, 2022
  • Prabhat Patnaik
  • Finance
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The relocation of capital from the advanced capitalist countries of the north to low- wage countries of the south in the current era of globalisation has received much attention; but there is another kind of relocation that has not received…

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Sanctions within a Regime of Neo-liberalism

  • March 14, 2022
  • Prabhat Patnaik
  • Macroeconomics, Trade and balance of payments
  • 0 Comments

Before joining the neo-liberal order, India used to have “rupee payment arrangements” with the Soviet Union and Eastern European socialist countries under which the main international reserve currency, the US dollar, was used neither for settling transactions nor even as…

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The IMF Connection with the Ukraine Crisis

  • March 7, 2022
  • Prabhat Patnaik
  • Political Economy
  • 0 Comments

The security concerns of Russia arising from Ukraine’s intentions of joining NATO have been widely discussed in the media. But the IMF’s link with Ukraine which is a parallel issue has scarcely received much attention. The IMF, as is well-known,…

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Imperialism as an Abiding Phenomenon

  • February 28, 2022
  • Prabhat Patnaik
  • Political Economy
  • 0 Comments

There is a common misconception that while the immediate aftermath of political decolonisation was marked by attempts by metropolitan powers to retain control over the resources of the erstwhile colonies, for which they used all kinds of instruments from coups…

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