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To commemorate 10 years of
International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs),
we are organizing a Conference titled ''Global
Economy in a Time of Uncertainty: Capitalist trajectories
and progressive alternatives'' in
Muttukadu, Chennai, during 24-26 January 2012, and
a Seminar titled ''Whither
Global Capitalism'' in
the Convention Center, Jawaharlal Nehru University
(JNU), Delhi, during 28-29 January 2012. This section
contains the contributions by the participants in
the two events.
Global Crisis: How deep and
for how long?
Can the Euro
Hold?
The Future
of Finance
Long-run Roots of the Crisis
The Agrarian
and Food Crises
Competition for Resources
Is Decoupled Growth Possible
Changing Global Production Structures
Challenges to Neoliberalism
Resolving the Food Crisis: Assesing global policy reforms
since 2007
Timothy A. Wise and Sophia
Murphy (January 19, 2012)
The spikes in global
food prices in 2007-8 served as a wake-up call to the
global community on the inadequacies of our global food
system. Commodity prices doubled, the estimated number
of hungry people topped one billion, and food riots
spread through the developing world. A second price
spike in 2010-11, which drove the global food import
bill for 2011 to an estimated $1.3 trillion, only deepened
the sense that the policies and principles guiding agricultural
development and food security were deeply flawed.
A
Proposal for a Growth and Fiscal Compact
Mario Tonveronachi (January
19, 2012)
The
author investigates the present crisis in Europe that
is threatening to undo the economic integration process
started under the European Union. The single market
and common currency concept is today under threat because
of national egoisms and undemocratic manner in which
the EU operates currently.
Notes on Land, Long Run Food Security and the Agrarian
Crisis in India
Sheila Bhalla (January
19, 2012)
These
Notes are organised in three main parts. Part I looks
at examples of three approaches to land use and land
acquisition issues. Two are from international organisations
- the FAO and IFPRI - and concerned primarily with the
acquisition of large tracts of farm land in developing
countries by foreign investors, including Indian investors,
and one is exemplified by a recent Indian Supreme Court
judgment. Part II seeks to come to grips with the specific
features of India's agricultural and agrarian crises,
and to make a distinction between the two. Part III
deals with long term trends in land use in India, outcomes
in terms of average area owned, the size distribution
of land holdings, and declining land/man ratios. Part
IV looks at the corresponding long term trends in agricultural
worker productivity and the impact of declining land/man
ratios on agricultural worker productivity.
Updated on January 25, 2012. |