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Feminist Reflections: UN's high level panel report on post-2015 development agenda

This is a joint response endorsed by numerous feminist organizations on the UN High Level panel Report on the post-2015 Development Agenda.

A Season of Protests in Turkey

T. Sabri Öncü
The protests in Turkey are as much about lack of democracy as is about rising inequality under a neoliberal regime of austerity amidst rising private debt.
   
Korea's Debt Mountain
Jayati Ghosh
The credit driven consumption boom that was ushered in after the East Asian Crisis has put the Republic of Korea on the verge of another crisis waiting to happen.
The Neoliberal Trap
C.P. Chandrasekhar
The government of India is forced to appease international credit rating agencies and give their demands priority over national issues.
   
More of the Same, Just Prettier
Gabriele Köhler
The new recommendations for the Post-2015 MDG Agenda remain mired in neo-liberalism and have very little substance to offer.
Poor Empiricism: The 'Middle Income Trap'
C.P. Chandrasekhar
It is argued that the "middle income trap" analysis propagated by the IMF and others does not provide a convincing prescription to revive growth in the Asian region.
   
The Bursting of the Asian Housing Bubble
C.P. Chandrasekhar & Jayati Ghosh
Housing prices in many developing Asian countries soared after the Global Financial Crisis, but the recent trends suggest that they may be tapering off and even declining.
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 & 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.
   
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