[GJM] Fwd: [MacroScan] What's New on Macroscan (April 1, 2008 to April 30, 2008)

[robert searle]

--- ERF <erf at vsnl.com> wrote:

> Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 13:23:54 +0530
> From: ERF <erf at vsnl.com>
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> Subject: [MacroScan] What's New on Macroscan (April
> 1, 2008  to April 30,
>  2008)
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> What's New on Macroscan (April 1, 2008 to April 30,
> 2008) www.macroscan.org or www.macroscan.net 
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> CURRENT ISSUES
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> An Insider View from George Soros
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> Apr 29th 2008, C.P. Chandrasekhar  
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> Among some of the voices which are calling for more
> attention to the nature of the current US financial
> crisis and for a more disinterested view of the need
> for state intervention, an influencial one is that
> of George Soros. His book "The New Paradigm for
> Financial Markets: The Credit Crash of 2008 and What
> it Means", being released in May, challenges the
> prevailing sanguine view on the intensity and
> implications of the crisis. This review is based on
> a reading of the digital edition available from
> various ebook sellers and his recent speeches.
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> Inflation: How Much and Why
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> Apr 17th 2008, C.P. Chandrasekhar   
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> Inflation is emerging as India's primary economic
> problem now. The problem is that it looks set to
> rise very fast with retail prices moving much faster
> than the rest. The major concern still is that this
> is occurring in a period when global inflation is on
> the rise and policies of trade liberalisation and
> domestic deregulation have reduced the degree to
> which Indian prices are insulated from international
> prices.
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> Neoliberal Discomfort
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> Apr 15th 2008, C.P. Chandrasekhar    
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> Globally, evidence has been growing that markets are
> just not working, precipitating crises that requires
> bringing the state back in. The high oil prices,
> financial crisis putting government regulation back
> in vogue and the crisis in global food markets show
> that markets cannot deliver without regulation. But
> there are also many areas where apparently
> successful outcomes of free market have turned out
> to be more of a problem that an economic gain, the
> foreign reserves issue being a case in point.
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> World Prices and The Transmission of Inflation
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> Apr 8th 2008, Jayati Ghosh  
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> The recent global rise in inflation is partly
> demand-led, the result of several years of rapid
> economic growth and resultant demand. This however
> may be automatically controlled since growth and
> inflation will act as a constraint on each other.
> But more worrying is the fact that the possibility
> of stagflation, brought about by supply constraints,
> cannot be ruled out. This will be far more difficult
> to control.
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> FEATURES
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> The State of Fiscal Devolution
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> Apr 23rd 2008, C. P. Chandrasekhar & Jayati Ghosh 
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> Increasingly the central government tries to pass
> the responsibility for economic and social outcomes
> on to the state governments. But does the current
> state of fiscal federalism justify this? In this
> article the authors examine this question.
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> Global Inflation and India 
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> Apr 16th 2008, C. P. Chandrasekhar & Jayati Ghosh 
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> Most analyses of accelerating inflation in India
> emphasise the role of "imported inflation" in
> driving Indian prices upwards. In this article, C.P.
> Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh examine the trends in
> global markets that influence domestic price
> movements and their implications.
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> Caste and Discrimination in Higher Education:
> Evidence from the National Sample Surveys 
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> Apr 8th 2008, Jayati Ghosh 
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> The issue of reservations in higher education in
> India has been a volatile issue which also has
> direct implications not only for public policy but
> also for the administration and functioning of
> academic institutions, not to mention the fate of a
> large number of students. This note is an attempt to
> add to the currently meagre empirical literature by
> analysing the available evidence on the actual
> extent of marginalisation and discrimination
> apparently faced by different categories in the
> population, based on the results of the most recent
> large National Sample Survey.
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> ANALYSIS
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> Farmers' Suicides in India: Magnitudes, Trends and
> Spatial Patterns    
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> Mar 3rd 2008, K. Nagaraj  
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> Given the very large number of suicides by farmers
> in various parts of India over the last decade,
> there is a need to probe the issue by utilizing a
> data source which would provide a comprehensive,
> nation-wide picture. This paper is a modest attempt
> to fill that gap. Its basic objective is to put
> together, and carry out a preliminary analysis on,
> the secondary data that are available on farmers'
> suicides in the country. The paper studies, first,
> the magnitude and trends in farmers' suicides in
> India over 1997-2006; and second, the regional
> patterns, if any, in the incidence and trends in
> these suicides.
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