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IDEAs Activities
  • Workshop on Financial Evolution, Regulatory Reform and Cooperation in Asia, IDEAs, FEI & CSS, Seoul National University, 17-18 May, 2013, Seoul, Republic of Korea     
        
  • South-South Tricontinental Collaborative Programme 2013-2015 jointly led by International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs), the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and the Latin American Council of Social Science (CLACSO).
Featured Themes
Re-regulating Finance

Following the financial crisis, much has been done for preventing systemic failure in the financial sector, stalling economic downturn and ensuring a recovery. However, the adequacy and appropriateness of the measures adopted remain questionable. As far as reforming the financial sector is concerned, despite a spate of proposals, agreement on the appropriate mix of policies and the progress with implementation have been limited. This section presents papers and articles that analyse the adequacy of various proposals and measures, the challenges that could arise at the time of implementation and advocate additional or alternative measures. Some of these papers also take a renewed look at the veracity of the arguments given for explaining the genesis of the crisis.

  • Capital Account Regulations and the Trading System:
    A compatibility review

    Edited by: Kevin P. Gallagher
Featured Articles
The Systemic Crisis of the Euro – True causes and effective therapies
Heiner Flassbeck and Costas Lapavitsas

The authors investigate the origin of the EMU to identify its constructional defects in order to explain why it is failing to resolve the European crisis effectively.

 
Fragile Foundations: Foreign capital and growth after liberalisation
C.P. Chandrasekhar
The shift from debt-financed public expenditure to debt-financed private expenditure-led growth in India has resulted in increased dependence on foreign capital and vulnerability.
 
The Business of News in the Age of the Internet
C.P. Chandrasekhar
In the context of the digital revolution, the author discusses some possible implications of the impact of the internet on the print business and the directions they point to.
 
China 2012
Samir Amin
Arguing that China has chosen an original path, the author analyses the nature of this path at each of the stages of its development from 1950 to today–2012.
 
Events & Announcements
  • Call for Papers, "Europe and Global Economic Rebalancing", 1st EY International Congress on Economics, 24-25 October, 2013,
    Ankara, Turkey.

     
  • Call for Applications for the 7th African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE), 2 to 14 September, 2013, Johannesburg, South Africa.
        
  • Call for Applications for the Latin America/Africa/Asia/ Scholarly Collaborative Programme, Research Grants 2013.
    (The deadline for the receipt of applications is June, 30th 2013)
Focus
A New Political Regime Post-2010 in Sri Lanka: A Hybrid Regime
Laksiri Jayasuria

The new regime in Sri Lanka seeks to replicate the strategy of Malaysia under Mahathir with an authoritarian state enforcing neo-liberal economic policies.

 
Liberal Capitalism, Conniving Capitalism and Lumpen Development: The case of Egypt
Samir Amin
Sadat dismantled Nasser's socialist developmental model and established neoliberal crony capitalism in Egypt. The real challenge of the recent uprising is to revert it.
 
Alternatives
The Implosion of Global Capitalism: The challenge for the radical left
Samir Amin

In the context of capitalism imploding in the form of the ongoing crisis, the author explores the possible alternatives that can succeed the present world order.

 
Egypt should Say Yes to Emergency Assistance, but No to the Failed Development Model of the Past
Rick Rowden
Egypt should refuse the IMF loan as the associated conditionalities would further push the neoliberal development model that has created much of Egypt's problems.
 
IDEAs Working Papers
IDEAs Working Papers
 

Weak Expansions: A distinctive feature of the business cycle in Latin America and the
Caribbean

Esteban Pérez Caldentey, Daniel Titelman and Pablo Carvallo

 

IDEAs Working Paper No. 01/2013

An Analysis of Public Finances in Thailand from
an Equity Perspective

Smitha Francis

 

IDEAs Working Paper No. 06/2012

 
Video Gallery
Jayati Ghosh speaks on ''Growth in Turbulent Times''


 
C.P. Chandrasekhar speaks on "India in the Global Economy: Finance"
 
IDEAs Policy Briefs
  • Cash Transfers as a Strategy for Poverty Reduction:
    A critical assessment

    IDEAs Policy Brief No. 03/2011
        
  • Investment Provisions in Trade Agreements: Critical
    issues

    IDEAs Policy Brief No. 02/2011
 
News Analysis
Redistributing Regulatory Power
C. P. Chandrasekhar

The FSLRC's far-reaching recommendations seek a fundamental redesign of India's historically evolved financial regulatory framework in favour of a liberalised financial sector.

Why Has This Recession Not Produced a Price Deflation?
Prabhat Patnaik

The current global recession has not witnessed price fall like the Great Depression because globalisation has altered the dynamics of the components determining prices.

Bangladesh Garments: Global chain of profit and deprivation
Anu Muhammad

The recent tragedy in the garment factory of Bangladesh follows a series of such unfortunate events which are a result of the exploitative nexus of the global garment industry.

Bullying Cyprus to No End
C.P. Chandrasekhar

The highhandedness shown by the troika (EU, ECB and IMF) in the case of Cyprus once again shows how the core in Europe is pushing the costs of adjustment to the periphery.

Beyond 2015? Or back to the 1980s?
Gabriele Köhler

The key areas of focus of the UN SG's Panel of Eminent Person discussions on the post-MDG Agenda failed to take into account the basic issues raised by global voices.

The Political Economy of Indian Food Exports
C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh

The article discusses the political economy configurations that permit rising grain exports from India, even as domestic food prices spiral out of the reach of ordinary people.

Is Global Finance Finally Shrinking?
Jayati Ghosh

Even as the value of global financial assets has fallen sharply since 2007, it may be essential to shrink it further to make the financial system fulfil its basic tasks.

Joint Appeal to Address the Problem of Inequality in the Post-2015 Framework

A group of economists, academics and development experts jointly appeals for putting inequality at the heart of any potential post-2015 framework to be discussed in Bali.

China's Exploding Debt
C.P. Chandrasekhar

Amidst the ongoing global financial crisis, a potential financial market threat is looming in China which is based on ''shadow banking'' lending to the real estate sector.

The Dangers of Fiscal Austerity
Jayati Ghosh

Despite fiscal austerity measures proving to be counterproductive in dealing with economic contractions worldwide, the Indian government is poised to implement similar policies.

No Standards, Not Poor
C.P. Chandrasekhar

The rising tide of litigation against US credit ratings agencies could help resolve the conflict of interest involved in basing financial regulation on the ratings system.

David Cameron's Bad Date in Delhi
Jayati Ghosh

David Cameron's strategy of engagement with India is based on the continuation of an Indian economic strategy that has lost its legitimacy within the country.

European Authorities Still Punishing Greece: Can they be stopped?
Mark Weisbrot

Unless the European authorities reverse course, leaving the euro may end up as the only sensible option for Greece- not only economically but politically as well.

Randomise This! On 'Poor Economics'
Sanjay G. Reddy

The author reviews the book 'Poor Economics' by Abhijit Bannerjee and Esther Duflo in the Review of Agrarian Studies.

 
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