Context India has 62.5% of its population in the age group of 15-59 years which is ever increasing and will be at the peak around 2036 when it will reach approximately 65%.These population parameters indicate an availability of demographic dividend in India, which started in 2005-06 and will...
Prabhat Patnaik On October 24-25, there were widespread peasant protests all over the country against the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) involving sixteen nations which India is currently negotiating. As negotiations near completion, such protests are escalating, with the All India Kisan Sabha planning to...
C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh In a previous edition of MacroScan, we considered trends in central government employment, and showed how the number of people employed by the central government stagnated between 2006 and 2014, while the number employed by central public sector enterprises declined. Furthermore,...
Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury November 14, 2019 Almost nine decades ago, newly elected US President Franklin Roosevelt introduced the New Deal in 1933 in response to the Great Depression. The New Deal consisted of a number of mutually supportive initiatives, of which the most prominent were: a...
Article Shared by Transaction theories emphasize the role of money as a medium of exchange. According to the transaction theory, money is a dominated asset people hold money unlike other assets, to make purchases. Money has both cost and benefit. Cost is the low rate of return...
Article Shared by Read this article to learn about the Keynes’s version of quantity theory of money. Transmission Mechanism: Keynes’ great merit lies in removing the old fallacy that prices are directly determined by the quantity of money. His theory of money and prices brings forth the truth...
MATHEMATICSWRITTEN BY: Steven J. BramsMorton D. Davis LAST UPDATED: Oct 18, 2019 See Article History ARTICLE CONTENTS Game theory, branch of applied mathematics that provides tools for analyzing situations in which parties, called players, make decisions that are interdependent. This interdependence causes each player to consider the other player’s possible decisions, or strategies,...
India’s Demographic Dividend Context India has 62.5% of its population in the age group of 15-59 years which is ever increasing and will be at the peak around 2036 when it will reach approximately 65%.These population parameters indicate an availability of demographic dividend in India, which started in 2005-06...
This handout presents the Ramsey (1928)/Cass (1965)-Koopmans (1965) (RCK) model in continuous time for an economy with exogenous labor-augmenting technological progress. 1 The Model The economy has a perfectly competitive production sector that uses a Cobb-Douglas aggregate production function to produce output using capital and labor; labor supply (the same as population) increases exogenously at a...
JAYATI GHOSH In 2015, United Nations member states adopted the Sustainable Development Goals, which include an imperative to “ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.” Yet, in the last four years, matters have deteriorated significantly. NEW DELHI – The dangers of environmental pollution...