Failure of 1991 reforms 1991 reforms: Weak balance sheet, found wanting on manufacturing and employment Jayati Ghosh Contrary to popular perception, the economic reforms of 1991 were a dismal failure as they ...
Cash transfer scheme ‘Cash for votes’ scheme Jayati Ghosh The proposed cash transfer to farmers on election-eve is a poorly imagined scheme that is ...
Education Failing the education sector JAYATI GHOSH The overarching theme of Budget 2018-19 is that of privatisation, and the budget for ...
Women Road to emancipation JAYATI GHOSH Women were a significant force in the mass uprising that culminated in the revolution and ...
Column Deras and evangelicals Jayati Ghosh How do we explain the extraordinary popularity of the bizarrely flamboyant Guru Gurmeet ...
Gender Issues A silent struggle against inequality JAYATI GHOSH The promises that inspired the enthusiastic participation of women in the national ...
Perspective Money and social contract JAYATI GHOSH We are now in relatively uncharted economic territory in India. But this also means that ...
U.S. elections To friends in the U.S. JAYATI GHOSH We understand and empathise with you because in our own way we have been there. Do not be ...
Agriculture Reaping distress JAYATI GHOSH The inability to resolve pressing problems with respect to the production, distribution ...
European Union What next for E.U.? JAYATI GHOSH It will be tragic indeed if the European Union collapses under the weight of its own ...
Youth & employment Growth in joblessness JAYATI GHOSH Job creation no longer seems to be a major policy priority of the government, and Prime ...
Greece Avoidable tragedy Jayati Ghosh The refusal of European authorities and the IMF to address Greek debt restructuring ...
Social sector Two steps backward JAYATI GHOSH The Modi government’s deep cuts in funds for social programmes relating to rural job ...
Social sector Hollow promises JAYATI GHOSH There is a decline in real terms in the budget allocations to crucial areas of the social ...
Unregulated contract farming Recipe for crisis JAYATI GHOSH Unregulated contract farming, combined with the state actors’ tendency to renege on their ...
