| Looking
to the Future: Examining the dynamics of
ALBA |
| Emine
Tahsin |
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This
paper examines whether and to what extent
the experiences of ALBA (Bolivarian Alternative
for the Peoples of Our America) succeed
in putting up an ideological challenge
against neoliberalism. The path
of the socialist Cuba and the Bolivarian
revolution of Venezuela are the main driving
forces of the ALBA project. As a result,
socio-economic development on the basis
of equity and complementarity has been
realized under ALBA integration. ALBA
has also
played a role in reducing the vulnerabilities
of the Cuban economy. |
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| Corporate
and Cooperative Solutions for the Agrarian
Crisis in Developing Countries |
| Sripad
Motiram & Vamsi Vakulabharanam |
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This
article discusses credit and marketing arrangements
for small farmers in developing countries.
The authors draw on the mixed experience
with agricultural cooperatives in developing
countries to
present the design of a credit and marketing
cooperative. The authors argue that in conjunction
with
other state policies, this arrangement works
better for small farmers than other alternatives,
in particular
corporate ones. |
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| Progressive
Program For Economic Recovery & Financial
Reconstruction |
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group of progressive economists met on November
21, 2008 at the New School for Social Research
in New York to discuss macroeconomic and
financial policies for economic revival
that can solve the short-term crisis and
help put the economy on an environmentally
sustainable path of widely shared prosperity.
From that meeting evolved a detailed program
presented here. |
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| Principles
For Economic Recovery & Financial Reconstruction |
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group of progressive economists met on November
21, 2008 at the New School for Social Research
in New York to discuss macroeconomic and
financial policies for economic revival
that can solve the short-term crisis and
help put the economy on an environmentally
sustainable path of widely shared prosperity.
From that meeting evolved a statement of
principles signed by many of the participants. |
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| On
Resource Mobilization |
| Left
Parties' Note |
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| Successive
governments in India have lacked the vision
or the political will to recognize that
for adopting a broad-based and effective
pro-poor programme as well as finance its
development, it must shift its fiscal policy
in a direction that is geared towards taxing
the rich effectively in order to generate
more tax revenues and a high tax-GDP ratio.
In fact, the trend has been to the contrary:
the rich have received several tax concessions.
The capital market, the corporate sector
and the new service sectors have also received
unduly large concessions. This note outlines
the specific demands for an alternative
resource mobilization strategy which has
been put forward by the combined left parties
in India. |
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Report
of the Commission on Farmers' Welfare, Government
of
Andhra Pradesh |
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| This
is the Executive Summary Report of 'the
Commission on Farmers' Welfare' which was
set up at the end of September 2004 by the
Government of Andhra Pradesh, India, to
look into the agricultural crisis in the
state, manifest most glaringly in farmers'
suicides. It was the opinion of the commission
that the agrarian crisis in Andhra Pradesh
can be linked to a combination of wrong
public polices of liberalisation and globalisation
policies at the central and state government
levels and failures at the level of local
implementation. It made recommendations
for corrective policies in six different
areas related to agriculture. |
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| India:
An Economic Agenda for 2004 |
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set of papers discusses some important issues
faced by the Indian economy and presents
policy alternatives.These papers were presented
at a convention jointly organised by the
Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (SAHMAT) and
the journal Social Scientist on 5th July
2004 at New Delhi. |
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| Some
Reflections on SDRM |
| Yilmaz
Akyuz |
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| Contributing
to the ongoing debate on SDRM, the author
argues that the seemingly evolving IMF-proposal
on the international bankruptcy procedure
still does not address the fundamental problems
connected with financial and currency crises. |
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| On
The Need for Regulating Technological Change
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| Prabhat
Patnaik |
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| Spontaneity
in the matter of technological change, which
is closely linked with the ceaseless creation
of new wants, militates against the realization
of another basic feature of a humane society,
namely the elimination of involuntary unemployment. |
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| Institutional
Redesign and The Economic Alternative |
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| The
centrally planned economies tried to avoid
the anarchy associated with the atomistic
investment decision making process typical
of a capitalist system by adopting a centralized
coordinated investment decision making system.
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| An
Alternative Budget Strategy for Malaysia |
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| Cronyism
and corruption has ruined the Malaysian
economy with the ordinary people suffering
as a result. A people-oriented budget is
needed for a more just and sustainable development.
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| Tobin
Tax Time |
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| Twenty-five
years ago, Nobel Prize-winning economist
James Tobin proposed a modest tax on speculative
financial transactions. |
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Call
of social movements from
Porto Alegre II |
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recently concluded World Social Forum in
Porto alegre, Brazil brought together tens
of thousands of participants from all over
the world, determined to oppose neoliberalism,
fight against war and militarism and strive
for peace and social justice. |
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| An
Alternative Policy Framework for India |
| Jayati
Ghosh & C.P. Chandrasekhar |
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| The
overarching implication of the spate of
financial crises that have ravaged Asia,
Russia and Latin America is of course that
the threat of deflation, driven by a financial
crisis is real. |
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