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Two weeks to Christmas: Can the Euro summit deal hold things together?
December 11, 2011, No Comments

Matters could come to head as soon as next week if Standard and Poor’s follows through on its threat to downgrade Euro ...

ECOSOP Critical Digest: 6.12.11
December 6, 2011, 3 Comments

The Critical Digest Week 1: (28.11.11- 4.12.11)

FDI in retail: Watch this space…after a decade
December 2, 2011, 2 Comments

As usual, the media coverage on the issue has veered from shrill to shriller. The commerce minister, Anand Sharma, seems ...

Taking Offence: India’s New National Pastime
November 30, 2011, No Comments

A Pastime to Beat All Others Move over waiting-for-Sachin-Tendulkar-to-get-his-100th-100, you’re getting boring now, I ...

Networking the Euro crisis
October 23, 2011, No Comments

A great little graphical analysis, published in the New York Times, of the links between different economies and the Eur ...

The End of the Euro. Again.
September 21, 2011, 2 Comments

Even as Greece defaults on its debt, the attention shifts to those economies that could be next in line. Euros fly to sa ...

A Bigger India Needs Bigger Thinking
August 12, 2011, 3 Comments

[This a guest post by Matthew Schwarz. Matt is studying International Finance and Banking at The Fletcher School of Law ...

Globalization and Socio-economic Rights
August 5, 2011, No Comments

There have been arguments raised that socio-economic rights (I interpret socio-economic rights to mean those that give r ...

Being Married and Taking a Walk
July 16, 2011, No Comments

“Are you married?” Irritating, feminist clichés rush to my mind, with images tailored to provoke anger. Images of a ...

World Cup 2011: Coming to a television near you on March 22
February 23, 2011, 2 Comments

Since it’s the World Cup, however, it must be time to collectively beat our heads against yet another logic-defying, t ...