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Women in Agriculture : Challenges and Way Ahead

  • July 26, 2019
  • Macroscan Team
  • Development Economics
  • 0 Comments

What are some of the challenges faced by women in agriculture in India? What are the possible ways out of the agrarian crisis, that is hurting women farmers and agricultural workers the hardest? This video provides a glimpse of the…

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Big Discrepancy in Budget

  • July 12, 2019
  • Jayati Ghosh
  • Development Economics
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Interview with JNU Prof Jayati Ghosh Are the budget figures reliable or are they misleading and perhaps arguably false? That's the question we address in this interview with Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University Jayati Ghosh.    

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Panel discussion on WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE: Challenges and way ahead

  • July 5, 2019
  • Macroscan Team
  • Development Economics
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Venue: India International Centre (ANNEXE, LECTURE ROOM 1) Lodhi Road, New Delhi Date: 10 July 2019 Time: 10.00 am-1 pm Organised by: Economic Research Foundation (ERF) and Focus on the Global South Speakers:- Jayati Ghosh (Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University) Jagmati…

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Finance and Growth under Neo-liberalism

  • May 14, 2019
  • Prabhat Patnaik
  • Development Economics, Finance
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The post-second world war years had seen systematic intervention by the State to stabilize capitalist economies. In fact State intervention had played the same role in that period that incursions into colonial and semi-colonial markets had played earlier, over much…

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Industrial Policy Challenges for India: Global value Chains and free trade agreements

  • April 1, 2019
  • Smitha Francis
  • Development Economics
  • 0 Comments

Publisher: Routledge India ISBN: 978081536605 About the Book This book looks at the debates on global value chains (GVCs) and free trade agreements (FTAs) as springboards for industrial development in developing countries, especially India. It connects the outcomes in GVC-led…

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Why is South Asia performing so badly on the SDGs?

  • March 28, 2019
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
  • Development Economics
  • 0 Comments

The SDGs were obviously incredibly ambitious – far more so than the Millennium Development Goals that they succeeded – and so it was indeed a remarkable achievement that governments of almost all countries signed up to them. There were no…

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Krishna Bharadwaj Memorial Lecture 2019

  • March 15, 2019
  • Macroscan Team
  • Development Economics
  • 0 Comments

Organised by Faculty of CESP JNU and JNUTA Prashant Bhushan speaks on Current Threats to the Constitution at Krishna Bharadwaj Memorial Lecture 2019 jointly organised by Faculty of CESP JNU and JNUTA at SIS New Building, JNU on Thursday, 14…

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Amartya Sen in a Conversation at a Book Release on the Indian Economy under Modi

  • March 4, 2019
  • Macroscan Team
  • Development Economics
  • 0 Comments

Prof. Amartya Sen released a volume on the Indian economy under the Modi sarkar edited by Dipa Sinha, Shouvik Chakraborty, Srinivasan Ramani and Rohit Azad. It is a collection of 14 articles on almost every aspect of this government done…

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Can Ayushman Bharat National Health Protection Mission protect health of India’s Poor?

  • February 20, 2019
  • Subhanil Chowdhury and Subrata Mukherjee
  • Development Economics
  • 0 Comments

The recently introduced Ayushman Bharat National Health Protection Mission has been projected as a big public intervention in the health sector for protecting the health of India’s poor and vulnerable. The health insurance scheme under Ayushman Bharat promises to offer…

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Is the Banking Sector out of the Woods yet?

  • February 20, 2019
  • Prasenjit Bose and Zico Dasgupta
  • Development Economics
  • 0 Comments

The NDA regime has been characterised by a steep rise in NPAs and frauds, and a misguided view of 'corrective action'. click here for Full article (A shorter version of the article was published in The Hindu Businessline.)

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