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C. P. Chandrasekhar
Researcher at Jawaharlal Nehru University
Publications - 26
Citations - 669
C. P. Chandrasekhar is an academic researcher from Jawaharlal Nehru University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Measures of national income and output & Emerging markets. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 24 publications receiving 621 citations.
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Information and communication technologies and health in low income countries: the potential and the constraints
C. P. Chandrasekhar,Jayati Ghosh +1 more
TL;DR: The potential offered by technological progress in the information and communication technologies (ICTs) industries for the health sector in developing countries is outlined, some examples of positive experiences in India are presented, and the difficulties in achieving this potential are considered.
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The Market that failed : a decade of neoliberal economic reforms in India
C. P. Chandrasekhar,Jayati Ghosh +1 more
TL;DR: This paper surveys the actual experience of the last decade to argue that this strategy has had damaging consequences from the point of view of employment poverty alleviation and equity, and argues that the explicit adoption of a neoliberal reform programme in mid 1991 by the Indian Government was the start of a period of economic liberalization.
The 'Demographic Dividend' and Young India's Economic Future
TL;DR: However, recent employment figures indicate that the absorption of the Indian youth into the labour force is not as high as one would expect, perhaps due to the poor employability of the workforce, which is severely affected by a deficit in educational attainment and health as mentioned in this paper.
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The costs of ‘coupling’: the global crisis and the Indian economy
Jayati Ghosh,C. P. Chandrasekhar +1 more
TL;DR: The view that the Indian economy would be less adversely affected by the global economic crisis because of limited integration and other inherent strengths has proved to be wrong as discussed by the authors, as the economic boom in India that preceded the current downturn was dependent upon greater global integration in three ways: greater reliance on exports particularly of services; increased dependence on capital inflows, especially of the short-term variety; and the role these played in underpinning a domestic credit-fuelled consumption and investment boom.
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The Financialization of Finance? Demonetization and the Dubious Push to Cashlessness in India
C. P. Chandrasekhar,Jayati Ghosh +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the promotion of digital rather than cash payments as a form of the financialization of finance, in its role as a payments system, with reference to recent Indian experience.