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Two weeks to Christmas: Can the Euro summit deal hold things together?
December 11, 2011, 8 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, 4 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, 7 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 ...