Author: centreforneweconomicstudies

The 21st century has ushered in a period of democratic backsliding putting everyone at risk. With all kinds of leaders and countries entering the ‘dark side’, no one is safe. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic only exacerbated this. The condition of fledgling democracies is even more at risk: why?

This article discusses the constitutionality of the Fetal Heartbeat Bill or the anti abortion law recently passed in Texas by comparatively analysing the overall abortion laws in the United States and controlling constitutional position.

While interviewing Oucha Mbarbk, a man in a remote village in Morocco, the authors of Poor Economics asked him- without enough to eat, why do you have gadgets in the house? ‘But television is more important than food!’ was Oucha’s response. There is widespread evidence for such behavior being exhibited in typical poor households in…

This article explores how lower caste identities in India are curiously invisible and hypervisible at the same time, by looking at Dalit, Bahujan, Adivasi and Upper Caste identities in the context of reservations, bollywood and feminism.

Globalization is how the rich perceive the environment and use it to work the economy to their advantage. Localization is how the poor perceive the environment. With globalization becoming the norm of the world, the poor are struggling to keep up. With such an unbalanced binary, how will equality be achieved?

This article talks about the friendship between India and Bhutan, and how it has remained the same if not become stronger even in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Today, blockchain technology is ubiquitous in China. The country’s rapid research initiatives towards the adoption of the nascent technology has put it in a favorable position to amass much more power on the international stage and upend the current global order. This article argues that a ‘strategic’ pattern of regulation of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin…

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Shamima Begum’s recent fight to regain her British citizenship has gathered a lot of international attention. Her situation probes us to think of its significance even outside of Great Britain; when did citizenship transform from a natural right to being used as a tool of punishment and reward? How does the identity of an individual…

This article analyzes the economic costs of the recent Israel-Palestine ‘conflict’. Specifically, it evaluates the direct and indirect costs of the war on both economies, looking closely at the channels through which these cross-border tensions have impacted them. The article then extrapolates some interesting insights into the future of this conflict, whilst being cognizant of…

In this article, the researcher will analyse the reasoning given by the Supreme Court bench in the recent Maratha Reservation case, while pronouncing the verdict that the breach in the 50 % quota cap and the constitutionality of the reservation as invalid, the same case is brought long obscurity on the topic to a halt.…