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Znet Article Mishra: Crony Capitalism and Its Implications

Znet Article, September, 17 2006 Girish Mishra
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In Western Uttar Pradesh, the State government has allotted agricultural land, acquired from peasants on very low rates, to industrialist Anil Ambani for building power plants and setting up a special economic zone. This has led to great disconten...

Znet Article Mishra: Theft of the Commons

Znet Article, August, 31 2006 Girish Mishra
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For quite some time two news items have been dominating the media in Delhi. The first relates to the intervention by the higher judiciary to remove commercial establishments and other kinds of encroachment from the residential areas and public lan...

Znet Article Mishra: American Economy

Znet Article, August, 16 2006 Girish Mishra
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Prof. Niall Ferguson of the Harvard University compares the US economy to a dinosaur whose bulk once shook the ground. Yet, it disappeared from the face because of its inner problems. Like it, “the US economy is mind-bogglingly enormousâ&#...

Znet Article Mishra: Rising Prices, Fearful People in India

Znet Article, July, 31 2006 Girish Mishra
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For quite some months, the prices of goods and services, especially of mass consumption, have been increasing relentlessly. On July 3, the prices of petroleum products were increased by 25 to 30 per cent. This has added fuel to the fire and aggrav...

Znet Article Mishra: Implications of Privatizing Public Security

Znet Article, July, 23 2006 Girish Mishra
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Adam Smith, the father of modern economics, pleaded for leaving all economic activities to be regulated by market forces without any restraint from state or any other organized group. He believed, “the invisible hand” would coordin...

Znet Article Mishra: Globalization and Growing Disparities

Znet Article, July, 07 2006 Girish Mishra
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The present phase of the Washington Consensus-based globalization is now almost two decade-old. Hence it is not premature to judge what its protagonists promised and what results have accrued. To begin with, globalization was to generate a high ec...

Znet Article Mishra: American Dream and Its Indian Vendors

Znet Article, June, 18 2006 Girish Mishra
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For many, many years the US official circles, the propertied classes and the media controlled by them have been propagating a myth. It is the myth of the American Dream, which means that in the United States, any person can climb up the ladder of ...

Znet Article Mishra: World Bank and Economic Growth

Znet Article, June, 01 2006 Girish Mishra
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It is quite intriguing that the World Bank has, all of a sudden, begun worrying about economic growth. It has announced a high level body-Commission on Growth and Development-headed by Michael Spence, a Nobel laureate and former Dean of the Stanfo...

Znet Article Mishra: Making the State Impotent

Znet Article, May, 21 2006 Girish Mishra
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On liberation from the imperialist yoke after the Second World War, many countries embarked on the path of economic development to make their political freedom secure and meaningful to their people. Even though these countries were at different le...

Znet Article Mishra: Frightening Demon of Unemployment

Znet Article, May, 08 2006 Girish Mishra
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The demon of rising unemployment has been increasingly terrorizing Asia in general and India in particular ever since the Washington consensus-based globalisation has become the guiding star. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) in a recently released...

Znet Article Mishra: India

Znet Article, April, 23 2006 Girish Mishra
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Ever since Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has announced his resolve to make the rupee fully convertible on capital account, it has given rise to a fierce controversy. While the corporate sector, and the media and some economists, loyal to...

Znet Article Mishra: Corporate Shadow on Indian Agriculture

Znet Article, April, 10 2006 Girish Mishra
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As recent developments indicate, global corporate giants are out to establish their dominance over Indian agriculture. In this they are being helped by powerful quarters from both inside and outside the country. It is needless to add that their su...

Znet Article Mishra: On Cheaper Cars in India

Znet Article, March, 30 2006 Girish Mishra
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The finance minister, P. Chidambaram, has proposed to reduce excise duty on cars from 24 to 16 per cent, i.e., by one third. He hopes: “industry will seize the opportunity to make India hub for the manufacture of small and fuel-efficient c...

Znet Article Mishra: India: One Country, Two Worlds

Znet Article, March, 14 2006 Girish Mishra
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Two reports have appeared simultaneously. One report has been carried by the American magazine Forbes and the other by the German journal Der Spiegel’s English version. These two reports underline that India, despite being one country, is ...

Znet Article Mishra: The Present State of India's Economy

Znet Article, February, 28 2006 Girish Mishra
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Notwithstanding a rosy picture of the Indian economy now and in the years to come painted by the just released Economic Survey: 2005-2006, there are a number perturbing aspects, glossed over by the media. The government seems euphoric about the ov...

Znet Article Mishra: Booming Indian Bourse: Illusion and Reality

Znet Article, February, 20 2006 Girish Mishra
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The sensitive index of the Bombay Stock Exchange, during the first week of February 2006, performed the much-awaited feat of crossing the 10,000-mark. This brought great joy to industry and trade. The media, both the print and the electronic, were...

Znet Article Mishra: Disturbing News on the World Economy

Znet Article, February, 01 2006 Girish Mishra
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The recent UN report, World Economic Situation and Prospects, 2006, has come out with disquieting tidings for the world in general and developing countries in particular. If carefully reflected on, the political and social implications are going t...

Znet Article Mishra: Hunger in the Midst of Plenty

Znet Article, January, 16 2006 Girish Mishra
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While the celebrations on the eve of 2006 were going on all over the world and the people with means were bursting crackers, drinking champagne and dancing enthusiastically, one person was desperately reminding them of widespread incidence of pove...

Znet Article Mishra: Infatuation with Economic Growth

Znet Article, January, 02 2006 Girish Mishra
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Ever since the turn of the 1990s, there has been great stress on raising the rate of economic growth. In fact, it has become the be all and end all for the governments coming to power at the centre. It has been underlined time and again that the o...

Znet Article Mishra: Why Suicides by Farmers?

Znet Article, December, 20 2005 Girish Mishra
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It was in the year 1997 that the phenomenon of suicides by Indian farmers emerged. Since then it has assumed frightening proportions and till now more than 25,000 farmers have taken their own lives. Only the other day a member of the Maharashtra L...

Znet Article Mishra: Rural India in Grip of Loan Sharks

Znet Article, December, 05 2005 Girish Mishra
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Ever since days of India’s freedom struggle, there has been a repeated emphasis on the need of liberating rural population from the grip of moneylenders. Soon after Independence the Reserve Bank of India conducted All-India Rural Credit Su...

Znet Article Mishra: Reserve Bank of India and Globalization

Znet Article, November, 11 2005 Girish Mishra
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is, by its position as central bank, the guardian of country’s banking sector. With the help of suitable monetary policy instruments, it manages and directs the various financial institutions of the country ...

Znet Article Mishra: Criminal Capitalism and Quixotic Devotee

Znet Article, October, 26 2005 Girish Mishra
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Raymond W. Baker knows of the working of world capitalist system in all its intricacies to the minutest details as he worked for almost four decades in Africa and South America as a prominent businessman. Later, he was associated with two prominen...

Znet Article Mishra: A Realistic Look at Call Centres

Znet Article, October, 18 2005 Girish Mishra
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For quite some years, call centres have come to symbolize a new optimism for the ruling circles in India. They hope, these call centres will go a long way to boost foreign exchange earnings, provide high value employment opportunities to the educa...

Znet Article Mishra: Whither Globalization?

Znet Article, September, 10 2005 Girish Mishra
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, on the morrow of Independence Day, was interviewed by Rajat Gupta of The McKinsey Quarterly. Towards the end of the interview what Manmohan Singh, in response to the question: “What message would you like to ...

Znet Article Mishra: Nehru's Economics

Znet Article, August, 15 2005 Girish Mishra
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Till the end of the 1980s, the demand for abandonment of Nehru’s ideas and thinking was confined only to a few of the non-Congress parties in India. Communalists of all varieties, Lohia and his followers, sectarian Communists, Swatantra Pa...

Znet Article Mishra: On Disinvestment in India

Znet Article, August, 03 2005 Girish Mishra
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The process of disinvestment means selling off partially or wholly the assets of state owned undertakings to private sector. Obviously, private sector comes to influence or fully control the management and production decisions of the firms concern...

Znet Article Mishra: Two Reports, One Aim

Znet Article, July, 20 2005 Girish Mishra
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Recently, two reports have come, one from the American consultancy firm A.T.Kearney and the other from the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Government of India. Their aim, however, is the same: paving the way, unmindful of harmful consequences, for F...

Znet Article Mishra: World Bank in Bihar

Znet Article, July, 08 2005 Girish Mishra
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The World Banks has been recently showing a keen interest in Bihar, the third largest State in India. It has brought out a report, Bihar: Towards A development Strategy, running into more than a hundred pages, prepared by a team led by Mark Sund a...

Znet Article Mishra: Forced Labour

Znet Article, May, 28 2005 Girish Mishra
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Ever since the beginning of human civilisation, forced labour has been in existence. Almost all the ancient monuments, be it Taj Mahal or Asokan Pillar or the pyramids of Egypt or the Great wall of China, at which we marvel, were built on the basi...

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