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The
NYAY Scheme of the Congress |
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| Apr
8th 2019, Prabhat
Patnaik |
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Prabhat
Patnaik argues that the NYAY scheme of the Congress is a
form of "charity" rather than establishing an
economic right to decent living conditions. But in the current
neo-liberal regime, any transfers to the poor are welcome,
as long as they do not involve cuts in other social spending.
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| The
Political Economy of the Modi Regime |
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| Apr
2nd 2019, C.P.
Chandrasekhar |
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C.P.
Chandrasekhar argues that the five years of the Modi-led
NDA regime was characterised not just by the consolidation
and advance of Hindutva forces but a growing nexus between
the state and big capital that intensified the depredations
of neoliberal capitalism, camouflaged by diversionary measures
like demonetisation.
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| Vanishing
Green Shoots |
| Apr
9th 2019, C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh |
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Governments
and central banks that were upbeat about global economic recovery
are turning pessimistic, making this one more episode of a
green shoot that died young. |
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| Why
is South Asia Performing so Badly on the SDGs? |
| Mar
27th 2019, C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh |
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High
inequality in the South Asian region is a crucial factor responsible
for the region's poor performance on the SDGs. |
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Interim
Budget 2019-20 |
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| Did
the States get short-changed under Modi Government? |
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| Feb
15th 2019, Prasenjit Bose |
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With
the increase in cess and surcharges under the NDA regime,
States have been deprived of their share of Central taxes.
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| The
great Budget "Cash for Votes" Scam - and other Cash
Transfer Schemes |
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| Feb
15th 2019, Jayati Ghosh |
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Jayati
Ghosh argues that a combination of universal basic services,
universal employment guarantee and universal pensions to
ensure a minimum income is more workable and desirable rather
than cash transfers to individual households.
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| Budgetary
Sops Will Do Little to Fix Unemployment and Poverty in India |
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| Feb
5th 2019, Sunanda Sen |
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The
Budget sops will not provide a solution to problems of poverty
and unemployment in India, which result from structural
changes creating a mass of unutilised and underutilised
labour force.
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| Can
Ayushman Bharat National Health Protection Mission protect health
of India's Poor? |
| Feb
20th 2019, Subhanil Chowdhury and Subrata Mukherjee |
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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.
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| Can
the RBI's open Market Operations help the Rupee? |
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| Oct
10th 2018, C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh |
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| The
rupee's slide raises the question of whether India's central
bank should intervene by selling dollars to prop up the currency.
But past experience of such efforts has yielded mixed results,
so other measures may be necessary. |
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Krishna
Bharadwaj Memorial Lecture 2019
Mar
15th, 2019
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 March 2019, 4-30 p.m. |
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| The
Strange form of "Disinvestment" |
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| Jan
30th, 2019, C.P. Chandrasekhar |
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| Under
the NDA government disinvestment is increasingly turning out
to be a process in which surpluses are wrung out of PSEs or
government linked institutions to support the budget, instead
of the usual route of sale to private buyers. Apart from adversely
affecting the modernization and expansion plans of PSEs, this
change in the nature of disinvestment does not enable the
government to raise its expenditure to the desired levels
in a pre-election year. |
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| The
Mistaken Obsession with the Fiscal Deficit |
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| Jan
29th, 2019, C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh |
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The
central government regularly fudges fiscal data, to pretend
to meet the FRBM Act targets. This messes up public companies,
but does it really matter for the macroeconomy?
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| A
Memorial for Dr. Vineet Kohli, Assistant Professor at TISS and
a Former CESP Student |
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| Aug
13th 2018. |
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| Job
Opening at Economic Research Foundation |
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| Jan
31st 2018. |
