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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.
   
How Not to Urbanise
Jayati Ghosh
Although recent urbanisation in China is associated with several positive features, it has also generated problems that are making this process unsustainable.
Is China Changing?
C.P. Chandrasekhar
As evidence suggests, the Chinese economy is experiencing a reversal of the trajectory of high growth driven by excess investment; there is a shift towards consumption now.
   
The Argentine Debt Saga
C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
Decisions of the ICSID and of a district court in the US with regard to the restructuring of Argentinian debt threaten global debt markets with disarray.
The Quiet Power of the Ratings System
C.P. Chandrasekhar
The calls for regulating the rating agencies have thus far not been adequately heard, but perhaps the Australian court's recent initiative will change matters.
   
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