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Mitra analyzes India's minimum income proposal in the Indian Express
"For those who might totally dismiss such a scheme, by saying that it amounts to socialism, let me remind them that many believers in the power of markets, including myself, have throughout been in support of cash transfers as the least distortionary method of redistribution and fighting poverty," writes Devashish Mitra, professor of economics and Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs.
Ray Smith Symposium connects SU community through Indian storytelling
“The Ray Smith Symposium moves to connect the University with the broader campus community by involving a cross-section of Syracuse faculty,” says Susan S. Wadley, Ford-Maxwell Professor of South Asian Studies, and a veteran anthropologist. “It’s the public humanities at its best.”
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Mitra discusses tariff retaliation by India in Livemint article
Devashish Mitra, professor of economics and Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs, says, "any tariff increase will come at a huge cost to India’s consumers as well as producers who use imported inputs."
See related: Government, India, International Affairs, Tariffs, Trade
Mitra weighs in on India's tariff hikes in Wall Street Journal
Instead of raising tariffs India should have emulated China by reforming labor laws and maintaining a low-tariff regime on intermediate goods to attract export-oriented global manufacturing firms, according to Devashish Mitra, Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs.
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Kurien contributes chapter to new publication Asian American Matters
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Ethnic Church meets Mega Church: Indian American Christianity in Motion
Sadanandan weighs in on farmer suicides in India on Climate Central
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Media and the Transformation of Religion in South Asia
See related: Religion, South Asia