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Financing Hunger
Read more: Financing HungerIn the following article, the author Harshit Pai, talks about how financialisation of the food market is making the world’s poor go hungry. He talks about the role of futures markets; how a boon for farmers became their bane. Read on to know more..
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The Indian Banking Crisis
Read more: The Indian Banking CrisisIn the following article, the author, Spandan Pattnaik, follows a multidimensional approach and tries to analyze the ongoing banking crisis in India. The article highlights various loopholes in the banking system, the major causes for an account becoming a stressed asset and relate them to various crisis attributes. It examines the crisis from an institutional…
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Irish Banking Crisis and Herd Behaviour
Read more: Irish Banking Crisis and Herd BehaviourIn this paper Mr. Devashish Mathur attempts to look at the Irish Banking Crisis from the lens of behavioral economics. Irish Banking Crisis in 2008 made Ireland a ‘public finance posterchild’ prior to the European Debt Crisis of 2009.The paper specifically focuses on Irish Banking Crisis as to how banks failed without venturing into the…
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Inter-relationship Between Economies: The Country and The World
Read more: Inter-relationship Between Economies: The Country and The WorldIn this article, Shubhalakshmi Bhattacharya explores the interdependence between a national economy and the global economy through an analysis of the Greek economic crisis.
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The Cost of LGBT Exclusion to the Economy of India
Read more: The Cost of LGBT Exclusion to the Economy of IndiaThe essence of this article written by Viswas Viswanath is to look at the exclusion of the LGBT community through an economic lens rather than a socio-cultural one. It focuses on the influence behavioural economics has on this exclusion as well as looks at the crisis which could arise out of the “identity bias” attribute…
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Did the ‘Herd Behaviour’ give the East Asian Economies a ride during the Financial Crisis?
Read more: Did the ‘Herd Behaviour’ give the East Asian Economies a ride during the Financial Crisis?This article, Lakshmi Priya analyses the impact of ‘herd behavior’, which is considered to be the quickest decision-making device, on the East Asian financial crisis. Herd behavior, due to constant social influence and social learning from interconnected clusters, is the end process of social learning. The article explains how this herd mentality can lead to…
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A Feminist Perspective to Demonetization in India – Effects of the Demonetization Crisis of 2016 on Women and Transgender Communities
Read more: A Feminist Perspective to Demonetization in India – Effects of the Demonetization Crisis of 2016 on Women and Transgender CommunitiesIn this article, Srivatsan Manivannan uses George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton’s notion of identity and its role in affecting economic outcomes in the context of gender identity to analyze the effects of demonetization on women and transgender persons. Read on to find out more.
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Lessons that India can learn from the Carillion Crisis
Read more: Lessons that India can learn from the Carillion CrisisThe author Surya Rajkumar, discusses about the Carillion crisis in great detail in the following article and talks about the major lessons that India can learn from it. Read on in order to understand better.
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Saudi Arabian Oil Crisis, Reforms and Its Impact
Read more: Saudi Arabian Oil Crisis, Reforms and Its ImpactIn this article ,Danish, the author, discusses how the policy changes in Saudi Arabia due to oil crisis has had an impact on expatriates of other countries especially India.
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Why Are Global Stock Markets ‘Crashing’ This Week?
Read more: Why Are Global Stock Markets ‘Crashing’ This Week?The article, originally published on ‘The Millennial Investor’ discusses how the stock markets have been crashing all around the world because of a strong position of the US stock market. It diligently connects this with the increasing interest rates. However, the good news remains that there doesn’t seem to be chances of a prolonged financial…
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Local Content Policy: A Strategic Way Towards Economic Development of Mozambique
Read more: Local Content Policy: A Strategic Way Towards Economic Development of MozambiqueElisa Salaúde, through her article talks about Local Content Policy (LCP) in Mozambique which has come into limelight after the discovery of vast amount of natural resources. In this article she presents a template of some important measures that can be included in Mozambique’s LCP. Read on…
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The Accountability framework of UIDAI: Concerns and Solutions
Read more: The Accountability framework of UIDAI: Concerns and SolutionsIn this article by Vrinda Bhandari, Renuka Sane and Bhargavi Zaveri, they examine the foundations required to make UIDAI work properly looking far beyond the public discourse on privacy concerns and the power “Aadhaar” gives to the government. Read On..
