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Why are global wheat prices rising so much? -Jayati Ghosh and CP Chandrasekhar

-The Hindu Business Line The Ukraine war is not the sole driver of global wheat prices. Speculative activity has played a bigger role and policy inaction on that front can prove fatal The global food crisis has now grown to such proportions that everyone is talking about it (even though world leaders are doing relatively little about it). It has become an article of faith to blame the war in Ukraine for...

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Unable to access various state govt. schemes & benefits, many tenant farmers have committed suicides in Andhra Pradesh, reveals a new report

-Press release by Rythu Swarajya Vedika dated March 8, 2022 A new report on tenant farmers in Andhra Pradesh by Rythu Swarajya Vedika reveals how the denial of land owners' signatures on the Crop Cultivator Rights Cards is adversely affecting them. The Rythu Swarajya Vedika (RSV), a network of organizations and individuals working for the well-being and rights of farming community, released Part-1 of the report of its extensive study of tenant farmers...

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Unravelling the Capex Push -CP Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh

-Macroscan.org/ The Hindu Business Line The centre-pieces of the 2021-22 budget and the projected budget for 2022-23 fiscal years is the claim by the Finance Minister to have increased capital expenditure sharply in order to strengthen infrastructure in seven areas (Roads, Railways, Airports, Ports, Mass Transport, Waterways, and Logistics Infrastructure). Please click here to access.  * This article was originally published in the Business Line on February 7, 2022. ...

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Blissful ignorance -Jayati Ghosh

-The Telegraph The Union budget is an embodiment of unequal fiscal policy The finance minister and her ministry have betrayed, once again, their lack of understanding of the Indian economy or the conditions under which most Indians are living today. Despite attempts to ‘talk up’ the supposed recovery, the economy is weak and most people are hurting. India has seen one of the biggest increases in the number of poor and hungry people...

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What We Could Hope For – But Should Not Expect – in Budget 2022-23 -Jayati Ghosh

-TheWire.in Faced with a Union government that puts its own image-building ahead of the good of the people, let us imagine a scenario where Budget 2022-23 is, instead, drafted by a government which is willing to cooperate with the states and respond to the needs of the people. No matter where we look, bad news on the economy just keeps pouring in. Despite all the official and unofficial media attempts to talk up...

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