-The Indian Express These enterprises — whom she broadly categorises as ‘rural commercial capital’ — enjoy privileged access to formal credit networks. In her insightful study of the working of agricultural markets in West Bengal, British development studies scholar Barbara Harris-White has documented in detail how trade in farm produce is controlled through a web of rural and semi-urban agro commercial enterprises. These enterprises — whom she broadly categorises as ‘rural commercial capital’...

-The Times of India KOLKATA: If you failed to find your favourite fish in the market on Wednesday, blame it on the confusion over currency demonetization. With money starting to trickle in, the scenario in the market has changed overnight. If the Cash crunch led to a drastic fall in price of fish and vegetables in the last few days, perishable items disappeared all of a sudden on Wednesday. A few...

-The Telegraph The pundits have started to crunch numbers to assess the immediate impact of the Narendra Modi government's demonetisation drive on the economy, businesses and households - and the picture doesn't look too good. A consensus has started to emerge that the economy will take a hard knock in the short term with GDP growth likely to contract by 0.7 to 1 percentage point over the next year. The maximum impact...

-Hindustan Times Lucknow: Life has been a story of setbacks for Sarju Devi, a resident of Maurawa road in Mohanlalganj, but she is a fighter. The woman in her late 60s has faced struggle – be it at the time when she lost her husband, or when her young son was diagnosed with last-stage-abdominal cancer. But what happened on Tuesday left her crestfallen. On the day, Sarju couldn’t control her emotions when...

-The Times of India MUMBAI: A few cooperative banks, mostly in rural areas, have found a new way to bypass banking system norms put in place by the government to fight the black money menace. Since PM Narendra Modi launched the demonetisation drive on November 8, these cooperative banks, which are yet to be computerised and still use physical ledger books, are taking Cash from customers and opening backdated fixed deposits...