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Interpreting
the IPL |
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23rd 2008, Jayati Ghosh |
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The
shorter and more dramatic format of Twenty20 cricket was bound
to be successful and provide a real challenge to the most
traditional format of test cricket and also allowed cricket
to compete for viewership with other games such as football.
But the real novelty of the IPL lies in its open, blatant
and even exuberant celebration of the commercial principle.
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| The
Scourge of Private Tuitions
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| Jun
12th 2008, Jayati Ghosh |
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all Indian cities and towns and increasingly in rural areas,
taking private tuition has now become common practice and
at fees which are much higher than the regular school fees.
A remarkable feature of our school education system is the
way it has allowed and even encouraged the proliferation of
this system. However, not only is the system deeply inequalising,
it adversely affects the quality of the school education system
itself. |
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| A
Note on Fiscal Devolution and the Centrally Sponsored
Schemes |
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| May
26th
2008, Jayati Ghosh |
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constraint on the ability of the state governments to
raise revenues in turn limits their capacity to fulfil
even their constitutional responsibilities towards their
citizens. The pattern of fiscal devolution from Centre
to States is of the utmost significance from this perspective.
This system however, under the respective Finance Commissions,
has actually increased the centralisation of government
finances over time. |
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| Recent
Growth in West Bengal
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| May
12th 2008, C. P. Chandrasekhar & Jayati Ghosh |
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state of West Bengal has been the focus of national
discussion because of the various implications of its
proposed industrialisation policy. In this article the
authors consider the background to this policy by analysing
the most recent available evidence on growth trends
in West Bengal. |
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| The
Impact of Macroeconomic Change on Employment in the Retail
Sector in India: Policy Implications for Growth, Sectoral
Change and Employment
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May
15th 2008, Jayati Ghosh, Amitayu Sengupta &
Anamitra Roychoudhury
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study is concerned with the employment situation in
India’s retail sector. High economic growth in India
has not produced satisfactory outcomes of job growth,
both in terms of quantity and quality. Concern has arisen
that many of the working poor engaged in small-scale
retailing and street vending are crowded by entries
of large-scale domestic as well as foreign retailers.
Share of workers’ income in manufacturing has also seen
a decline, despite labour productivity growth, during
the last decade. This paper argues that economic policy
in India needs to be made more inclusive and equitable.
The only sure way of doing so would be making it more
pro-job and pro-poor, through examining employment implications
of macro policies that accompany economic liberalization. |
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| Farmers'
Suicides in India: Magnitudes, Trends and Spatial Patterns
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Mar 3rd 2008, K. Nagaraj |
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the very large number of suicides by farmers in various
parts of India over the last decade, there is a need
to probe the issue by utilizing a data source which
would provide a comprehensive, nation-wide picture.
This paper is a modest attempt to fill that gap. Its
basic objective is to put together, and carry out a
preliminary analysis on, the secondary data that are
available on farmers’ suicides in the country. The paper
studies, first, the magnitude and trends in farmers’
suicides in India over 1997-2006; and second, the regional
patterns, if any, in the incidence and trends in these
suicides. |
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Nov 28th 2007. |
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Research Foundation (ERF) is looking for researchers
for appointment at the Junior Economist and Economist
levels. |
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Budgetary
Policy in the Context of Inflation |
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| Mar
30th 2007, Prabhat Patnaik |
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| Negating
the impact of the current inflationary episode in India
on the poor requires both the ensuring of appropriate
supplies through imports, and a transfer of purchasing
power from the profit earners to the workers. Hence,
even if augmentation of supplies through resorting to
imports, as the government is doing now in the case
of foodgrains, succeeds in ending inflation, there is
still the need to put additional purchasing power in
the hands of the poor so that they regain their earlier
real income. The author argues that the basic problem
with the 2007-08 budget is that it is oblivious of these
social demands of a situation of profit inflation. |
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Singur and the
Political Economy of Structural Change |
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Feb 17th 2007, Mritiunjoy Mohanty |
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paper explores the controversy that has surrounded the
West Bengal Government's land acquisition programme
in Singur and situates it within the overall context
of economic growth and transformation. It argues one
of the most adversely affected groups as a result of
the acquisition is relatively large farmers for whom
agriculture is a source of accumulation and not livelihood
and subsistence. This might explain in part why the
resistance has been so strong. The paper argues that
equitable and sustained growth is possible only by reducing
the share of agriculture in the labour force and therefore
that the West Bengal Government's strategy has to focus
on maximising the generation of non-farm rural employment. |
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