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Disaster in the Making: Growth without Development

The alarm bells are ringing and no one seems to care about it. The world’s largest corporations are failing and people’s life-long earnings are being lost or eroded but we continue to push the accelerator for higher growth. Suddenly, questions are being raised about the sustainability of the present system...
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The Global Debate on Poverty – Claims, Contestations and Causality

The discourse on poverty is a complex one with multiple contestations and conflicting public narratives. Starting with a contested terrain in the 1970s, the neoliberal push for poverty alleviation got a shot in the arm with the disintegration of the USSR, fall of the Berlin Wall and ‘perceived’ prosperity in...
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