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Commentary
Viral Politics: Left Perspectives on the World and China
PERI's Isabella Weber participates in a webinar that examines U.S.-China tensions following the outbreak of COVID-19. The discussion was hosted by Critical China Scholars and co-sponsored by PERI's Asian Political Economy program, among others.
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Commentary
China Is not the Enemy - Neoliberalism Is
Jacobin
Commentary, June 2020 |
Isabella Weber, Hao Qi, Zhongjin Li
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PERI's Isabella Weber, Zhongjin Li and Hao Qi propose that the enemy in this pandemic is not China but, instead, inequality and the logic of profit over people.
Commentary
COVID-19 Comparative Data Among India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka
Commentary, May 2020 |
Deepankar Basu, Priyanka Srivastava
Research
The Impact of State-Owned Enterprises on China's Economic Growth
Journal Article, April 2020 |
Hao Qi, David Kotz
Research
The U.S.–China Trade Imbalance and the Theory of Free Trade: Debunking the Currency Manipulation Argument
Working Paper, March 2020 |
Anwar Shaikh, Isabella Weber
Research
Intra-City Inequalities, Neighborhoods and Economic Development
Working Paper, February 2020 |
Sripad Motiram, Vamsi Vakulabharanam
How do neighborhood characteristics and social cleavages within cities influence economic development? This study by PERI economist Vamsi Vakulabharanam and Sripad Motiram addresses these questions for the Indian cities of Hyderabad and Mumbai. The study conducts an inequality decomposition exercise to show that a substantial portion of intra-city income inequality is explained by social cleavages such as classes and social groups (caste and religion). The results show both that urban inequalities are stark, and that spatial co-existence of classes and social groups (a phenomenon that the authors term as “Grayness”) is pronounced, with Grayness exerting a strong positive impact on development.
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