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Re-Examining the Narrative of Structural Transformation: Insights from India’s Development Experience

Posted on by CASAS

CASAS’ member, C.R. Yadu, has published this article in Forum for Social Economics with Sahil Mehra. Abstract: The narrative of structural transformation, based on the experience of global North, posits that the process of development involves gradual ‘modernisation’ of the overall structure of the economy, where the traditional/low-productivity sectors give way to and support the…

Lockdown affecting agribusiness and local food producers differently in Argentina. Challenges and opportunities for food sovereignty.

Posted on by Andrea Sosa

In the whole Argentine territory, a quarantine was declared by the recently elected Peronist government in the early stages of contagion itself, on 19 March. Unlike other Latin American countries, there was less hesitation in implementing this measure to control the spread of the virus, even at the cost of other concerns such as economic…