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Beyond The Coronavirus: Understanding Crises Of Social Reproduction, Smriti Rao
Beyond The Coronavirus: Understanding Crises Of Social Reproduction, Smriti Rao
PERI Working Papers
From a feminist political economy perspective, the unfolding of the coronavirus is a further reminder of the fundamental contradiction between a capitalist system that prioritizes profits, and a feminist ethic that prioritizes life-making or social reproduction. This paper argues for a more systematic understanding of crises of social reproduction under capitalism, stressing the difference between such crises for labour, and those for capital. The coronavirus crisis represents an extraordinary example of a crisis of social reproduction for capital, but this paper examines crises of social reproduction for capital and labour that arise from the more ordinary workings of capitalism. The …
Three Essays On The Role Of Institutions In Indian Agriculture, Kartik Misra
Three Essays On The Role Of Institutions In Indian Agriculture, Kartik Misra
Doctoral Dissertations
Rural labor markets in India are characterized by high inequality in landownership, concentration of political power and caste fragmentation. Consequently, small and marginal farmers are vulnerable to land grabs by local landlords and large urban industrial corporations. Further, agricultural workers lack bargaining power in wage negotiations with monopsonistic employers. This dissertation analyzes the role of these power asymmetries in landownership, wage determination and the implementation of government programs aimed at poverty alleviation and structural transformation. My first chapter “Land Acquisition and Rural Labor Markets: Evidence from Special Economic Zones in India” examines whether Special Economic Zones (SEZs) effectively induce structural …
Revisiting India’S Growth Transitions, Deepankar Basu
Revisiting India’S Growth Transitions, Deepankar Basu
Economics Department Working Paper Series
This paper reconsiders two questions relating to India’s economic growth: structural breaks in growth and the impact of equipment investment on aggregate economic growth. First, statistical tests of structural change show that economic growth in post-independence India has witnessed four structural breaks: in 1964-65, in 1978-79, in 1990-91, and in 2004-05. However, substantial growth accelerations, i.e. increase of more than 1.0% per annum in the growth rate of per capita real GDP, occurred only at two points: 1978-79 and 2004-05. Second, to analyze the impact of equipment investment on growth, I use an ARDL bounds testing methodology. I find a …