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

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.

In developing a post-2015 framework for social and economic development, this report seeks to integrate macroeconomics, human rights, and gender into an analytical framework.

Analysis of women's employment and decent work in the context of the global economic crisis shows that gender sensitive policy responses are more likely to be successful.

The WIR rightly focussed on the interactions between national investment policymaking and international agreements. But its investment policy reform agenda remains incomplete.

Once upon a time, there was a lovely little country far, far away called LDCinia. This story narrates the journey of the LDCinians in their quest for prosperity for all and equitable and sustainable development.

This report is an update of Food Insecurity Atlas of Urban India that was developed by the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) and the World Food Programme (WFP) in October 2002 and a companion exercise to the Report on the State of Food Insecurity in Rural India of 2001. Reviewing the relative position of the major states with respect to food security, the Report reveals an alarming situation of a permanent food and nutrition emergency in urban India. Hence in order to promote food and nutrition security for all, the Report offers certain policy recommendations emphasizing that urban food security is impacted by the macroeconomic policies and therefore, economic reforms needs to be re-formed to provide inclusive urban development.

Offering a detailed account of the background to the present political crisis in Thailand, this article argues that Thai people can prevent themselves from becoming a failed state only by reversing the custom of allowing the state bureaucracy to exploit the institutions of monarchy for the purpose of legitimising suppression. Further, for ensuring sustainable development, the emphasis in Thai politics must be on making sure that the demands of the new urban classes are satisfied without further undermining the livelihoods and lifestyles of the agrarian community upon which the future of Thailand depends. It should also be recognized that the political stability and welfare of the whole region depends on establishing full parliamentary democracy in Thailand.

This Report is an update of the Rural Food Insecurity Atlas of 2001 released by the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) and the World Food Programme (WFP). Since then, numerous new programmes have been initiated by the central and state governments for achieving food security in the country. Giving a broad indicative picture of the level of food insecurity in different states and the operation of the nutrition safety net programmes, the Report concludes that the State has to play a crucial role in augmenting foodgrain output, ensuring wider access to food through expansion of livelihood opportunities as well as increasing access to non-food factors that have a direct bearing on food absorption and health, like safe drinking water, sanitation etc.

IDEAs showcases five books edited by Jomo K.S. along with Ben Fine and Erik. S. Reinert; three published by Tulika Books, New Delhi and Zed Books, London, that attempt to rediscover and reinterpret the significance
of 'Development Economics' as well as two more published by Oxford University Press, New Delhi, on the process of globalization and its outcomes in terms of increasing economic diversity. This is part of IDEAs' attempt to draw critical attention to these overwhelmingly important issues of yesterday, today and tomorrow.

A recent government report on FII inflows into the Indian stock market reflects the growing chasm between the view points of the Finance Ministry and the Central Bank on the matter. While the report advocates the cause of the FIIs, the RBI, concerned about the macroeconomic implications of excessive capital inflows and outflows, has virtually disowned much of it. In this critique, the author looks at the various arguments.

Examining the nature and sources of the international imbalances in balance of payments performance in a set of two articles, the authors argue that the major reason for the apparent excess of capital in developing countries which is then being exported to the US and other developed countries is the deflationary policies adopted by these governments to support of financial liberalisation and export-led growth.