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Has Donald Trump Already Changed US Trade?

  • June 19, 2018
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
  • Macroeconomics, Trade and balance of payments, World Economy
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There is no doubt that President Trump is upending global trade. He has unleashed a trade war with China as well as with some of the US’ s purported allies, using grounds of “threats to national security” to impose tariffs…

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Trump Versus the Rest

  • June 18, 2018
  • Prabhat Patnaik
  • Political Economy, World Economy
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Donald Trump’s leaving the G-7 summit without budging an iota on protectionism is indicative of the disunity among the leading capitalist countries on the strategy to overcome the capitalist crisis. Trump has decided that the U.S. would go its own…

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The Push for Privatizing Banks

  • June 11, 2018
  • Prabhat Patnaik
  • Economy and Society, Finance
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From the very beginning there has always been a demand for undoing bank nationalization in India. This demand naturally gathered momentum with the adoption of neo-liberal policies. It was completely unacceptable to international finance capital that the bulk of the…

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The Misplaced Growth Discourse

  • June 5, 2018
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
  • Economy and Society, Monetary Policy
  • 0 Comments

With the GDP estimates for the fourth quarter of 2017-18 placing growth relative to the corresponding quarter of the previous year at 7.7 per cent, talk of India being the world’s fastest growing economy has revived. Moreover, since the year-on-year…

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Once again, the Oil Price Scare

  • May 22, 2018
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
  • Macroeconomics, World Economy
  • 0 Comments

The news last week that prices of Brent Crude oil (which is used as a global benchmark) had crossed $80 a barrel in some markets must have created shock waves in policy circles of many countries, especially India. Many oil-importing…

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Curbing Child Rape: Are we barking up the wrong tree?

  • May 11, 2018
  • Anamitra Roychowdhury
  • Development Economics, Economy and Society
  • 0 Comments

The ghastly incident of gang rape and murder of an eight-year old child in Kathua has shaken the conscience of the nation. The outpouring of anger – revealed in the spate of protests – from different parts of the country…

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The Return of a Housing Bubble

  • May 8, 2018
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
  • Finance, World Economy
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Even while optimistic assessments of growth trends in the global economy proliferate, concerns that the unwinding of inflated asset price markets could abort the recovery are being expressed. Interestingly, there appears to be a substantial degree of agreement on the…

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Agricultural Tenancy in Contemporary India

  • May 8, 2018
  • Vikas Rawal, Vaishali Bansal and Yoshifumi Usami
  • Food and Agriculture, Poverty
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The problem of tenancy -- informal, insecure, exploitative, and often unfree and interlocked contracts for leasing land that have been both growth-retarding and unjust -- has been central to the agrarian question in India. Along with an uneven and distorted…

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The Collapse in Developing Country Exports

  • April 25, 2018
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
  • Trade and balance of payments, World Economy
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If there has been one big change in the nature of the global economy in the second decade of this century, it is in global trade. In the first decade of this century, especially in the period 2002-08, cross-border trade…

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Plurality in Teaching Macroeconomics

  • April 18, 2018
  • Rohit Azad
  • Finance, Macroeconomics
  • 0 Comments

For vibrant policy making, an open-minded academic engagement between contrasting viewpoints is needed in macroeconomic education. However, there does not even exist a textbook that contrasts these contesting ideas in a tractable manner. This pedagogical paper is an attempt to…

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