Issue : VOL 43 No. 26 and 27 June 28 - July 11, 2008

Jayadeva Uyangoda

COMMENTARY

Are Merger Regulations Diluting Parliamentary Intent?

Manish Agarwal , Aditya Bhattacharjea

World Rice Crisis:Issues and Options

C S C Sekhar

What Is Missing in Girls’ Empowerment?

Krishna Kumar , Latika Gupta

Nepal Political Diary–III

Srinivasan Ramani

Draft Policy on Prison Reforms

Vijay Hiremath

Agrarian Reform: Lessons from the Philippines

Manoshi Mitra Das

Bolivia at the Crossroads

R Tathagatan

BOOK REVIEWS

A Major Intervention

Barbara N Ramusack

Entertaining Reflections

K S Krishnaswamy

Story of a Rebel Poet

Sajal Nag

PERSPECTIVES

The Accumulation Process in the Period of Globalisation

Prabhat Patnaik

REVIEW OF AGRICULTURE

The Global Food Crisis: Causes, Severity and Outlook

Ramesh Chand

Changing Pattern of Input Use and Cost of Cultivation

M Raghavan

Indebtedness among Farmers in Punjab

Sukhpal Singh , Manjeet Kaur , H S Kingra

The Dragon and the Elephant: Learning from Agricultural and Rural Reforms in China and India

Shenggen Fan , Ashok Gulati

Agricultural R&D Policy and Institutional Reforms: Learning from the Experiences of India and China

Suresh Pal

SPECIAL ARTICLES

The Challenge of Contemporary History

Ramachandra Guha

Going MAD: Ten Years of the Bomb in South Asia

Zia Mian , M V Ramana

Government Health Spending in India

Peter Berman , Rajeev Ahuja

Price Indices and Inflation Rates

T N Srinivasan

Violence against Nomadic Tribes

sanjay kolekar

CURRENT STATISTICS

Macroeconomic Indicators (28 June 2008)

EPW Research Foundation

Money Market Rates of Interest