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When Will the Next Financial Crisis Start?

  • June 15, 2015
  • Macroscan Team
  • Finance, World Economy
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The global financial crisis that started in 2007 has never ended and now there are warnings of a looming market liquidity crisis, but when this will hit remains to be seen. next_financial_crisis (Download the full text in PDF format) (This…

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The Declining World Foreign Exchange Reserves

  • June 12, 2015
  • Prabhat Patnaik
  • Trade and balance of payments, World Economy
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If one adds up the foreign exchange reserves of all the countries in the world, including under the term “reserves” what these countries hold in the form of gold, US dollars, other reserve currencies, Special Drawing Rights of the IMF,…

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Skating on Thin Ice

  • June 1, 2015
  • Macroscan Team
  • Political Economy, Trade and balance of payments
  • 0 Comments

The Modi government completed one year in office on May 26. This year saw a continuation of the industrial stagnation which has been a feature of the Indian economy for quite some time now. The year-on-year rates of industrial growth,…

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One Year of Modi Government: Social sector

  • May 27, 2015
  • Jayati Ghosh
  • Employment, Political Economy, Poverty
  • 0 Comments

It is widely believed that one important reason for the remarkable victory of Narendra Modi and the BJP in the April 2014 general election in India, was the ability to tap into the aspirations of a dominantly youthful population that…

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The Economy: The end of euphoria

  • May 27, 2015
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar
  • Macroeconomics, Political Economy
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Having come to power by fanning high expectations of what it would deliver on the economic front, the Modi government’s first year has proved dull and dreary. Dull because there is little the government has to show, even on the…

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Fiscal Consolidation through Austerity

  • May 25, 2015
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar
  • Fiscal Policy, Political Economy
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On May 17, the Controller General of Accounts released the audited provisional accounts of the central government for 2014. Unlike the revised estimates in budgetary documents, these figures include actual figures for the month of March. A terse Statement from…

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Government and RBI: No real stand-off over macro policy

  • May 8, 2015
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar
  • Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy
  • 0 Comments

The current stand-off is more of a government effort to regain influence over macroeconomic management, as the government is accountable to the people whereas the RBI is not. Government_and_RBI (Download the full text in PDF format) (This article was originally…

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Is the Bull Run Over?

  • May 8, 2015
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar
  • Finance
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The hurried exit of foreign investors from Indian equity and debt markets seems to be reversing what has been a long bull run in India’s stock markets over the last three years or more (Chart 1). On 7 May, the…

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North Cyprus: Complicated, contradictory, charismatic

  • April 15, 2015
  • Jayati Ghosh
  • Development Economics
  • 0 Comments

Paulo Paolides was a lawyer in Cyprus in the 1950s and 1960s, a very prominent citizen who was a friend of the Cypriot President Archbishop Makarios, famous for his eloquence in winning high-profile legal cases. He was also and simultaneously…

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Unseen Workers: Women in Indian agriculture

  • April 1, 2015
  • Jayati Ghosh
  • Food and Agriculture, Political Economy
  • 0 Comments

It is safe to say that Indian agriculture could not survive and would not have survived without the huge contribution of women workers. Their role has been absolutely pivotal – as farmers, as co-farmers, as unpaid workers on family farms,…

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