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Announcement for ‘Editor, Gender and Development Journal’ for Circulation

  • August 4, 2021
  • Macroscan Team
  • Development Economics
  • 0 Comments

The Journal Gender and Development is looking for an Editor Oxfam India is now part of a southern consortium of Oxfams (Turkey, Colombia, South Africa, Mexico and Brazil being the other Oxfams in the consortium) which will host the Gender…

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Do Formalisation Policies help Women Workers?

  • April 7, 2021
  • Macroscan Team
  • Development Economics
  • 0 Comments

Webinar sponsored by PERI and IDEAs 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

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Do Formalisation Policies help Women Workers?

  • March 31, 2021
  • Macroscan Team
  • Development Economics
  • 0 Comments

TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 2021 || 7.30 AM (US EDT), 11.30 AM (GMT), 5.00 PM (IST), 6.30 PM (THAILAND TIME) FOR MORE INFORMATION: KWEINSTEIN@PERI.UMASS.EDU SHOUVIK@UMASS.EDU ANEELMANI@GMAIL.COM THIS PROGRAM IS JOINTLY SPONSORED BY PERI AND IDEAs.

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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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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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The Global Angle to the Farmer Protests

  • December 31, 2020
  • Utsa Patnaik
  • Development Economics
  • 0 Comments

The farmers’ movement for the repeal of the three farm laws which affect them closely but have been rammed through without consulting them, has now entered its second month. It is of historic significance. It is not just about minimum…

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How can the Indian Economy be rescued?

  • December 17, 2020
  • Jayati Ghosh
  • Development Economics
  • 0 Comments

A conversation with Economics Prof. Jayati Ghosh & Former Governor of RBI, Raghuram Rajan Plummeting GDP, squeeze on jobs - is there a way to rescue the Indian Economy? Will India be able to create a $ 5 trillion economy?…

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Covid-19: Why is India doing worse than other South Asian countries?

  • August 11, 2020
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
  • Development Economics
  • 0 Comments

Now that India has already overtaken Brazil among countries with the most number of Covid-19 positive cases and is on the verge of even beating the USA, it’s worth trying to understand what has led to this inability to control…

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A Critique of the Indian Government’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • July 16, 2020
  • Jayati Ghosh
  • Development Economics
  • 0 Comments

The most destructive effects of Covid-19 in India have not been the result of the disease, but the nature of the government response. The most stringent lockdown in the world destroyed the economy and forced millions into poverty and hunger,…

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Corona Pandemic, Sudden Visibility of Migrant Workers and the Indian Economy

  • July 6, 2020
  • Byasdeb Dasgupta
  • Development Economics, Economy and Society
  • 0 Comments

The outbreak of the Novel Corona Virus pandemic has brought to the fore the fact that the Indian economy is run to a large extent, if not to the largest extent, by the inter-state migrant workers. One report has in…

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