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By providing an easy and elegant “answer” to the complex process of development, albeit a wrong one, Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson’s rise to prominence has lent support to a very ...

With the growing feminisation of the gig economy, this article tries to understand how the gig economy has structural gendered problems and how things might evolve or change with policies and ...

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This paper reflects upon how the 1971 specific factor model of Ronald W Jones still holds its relevance in the face of growing within-country income inequality that has led to rising discontent for ...

In Rahul Sadasivan’s film Bramayugam, the dynamics of oppression and subjugation are intricately interwoven with the regulation of bodily autonomy.

India’s strategic autonomy in national security is severely constrained due to the strategic perspective of the Indo-Pacific think tanks with corporate interests that dominate New Delhi’s policymaking ...

In Vesper, the institutional safeguards of civil society have been replaced by the sociopathic figure of the middle person who relays authority through psychological and physical intimidation.

A close look at the Periodic Labour Force Survey data so far reveals a definite increase in the participation of women, especially in rural India. This optimism fades as this has occurred mostly in ...

In 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change called for urgent action to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, requiring a 43% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by ...

In India’s federal financial structure, the management of the public finances of the states is equally, if not more, important than the public financial management of the union. The article presents a ...

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