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Surbhi Kesar
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Development & political economist @soaseconomics, Past @SouthAsianUni @UMassAmherst| Informality, structural transformation, capitalism, decolonizing economics.
Jul 6, 2025 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Irresponsible reporting from @the_hindu @IndianExpress @bsindia & others about Indian being 4th equal country.

They compare India’s CONSUMPTION inequality Gini of 25.5 with INCOME inequality of other equal countries.
INCOME inequality of India is 62!

Thread explaining:

1/8 Image Look what PIB does, which newspapers pick up.

LHS: PIB says India ranks 4th in income inequality (not correct) and then shows in graph as proof its consumption inequality - this is BAD.

RHS: Income inequality of India & it is among the most unequal country in the world.

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May 21, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
There is much to be said about the right wing forces appropriating the idea of decolonisation. 🧵
Decolonisation is not a celebration of pre-colonial past in terms of Indian culture (which advertently falls into very catse-ist terrains). Instead,....1/6 Decolonisation is a dismantling of what a Eurocentric vision of history brought to us. What was this Eurocentric vision? Not a geographical Europe, but a metaphorical one, which was the constructed/projected the essence of capitalism, was centred in the development projects. 2/6
Dec 9, 2020 • 25 tweets • 6 min read
1/N In my article "Identity in Economics or Identity of Economics?" in @miami_institute econ forum, I engage w the issue of identity in econ to argue that while there is a problem of identity in the discipline, the fons et origo of the problem is the identity of the discipline🧵 2/N I unpack how in economics' claim to objectivity, a certain set of principles - those emanating from the Global North-centric mainstream knowledge - 've been privileged, while all other contesting understandings 've been dismissed as being unscientific.
miamisocialsciences.org/home/4kjktd9cu…
Dec 8, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1/5 Brilliant article by Achal Prabhla, @DeanBaker13 and @arjun_jayadev on why TRIPs waiver proposal for Covid-19 vaccination (by India and South Africa) would help not just the developing but also the rich countries. Thread on some kep points:
google.com/amp/s/www.nyti… 2/5 Support for proposal?
"By our count, nearly 100 countries favor the proposal, and yet because almost all decisions at the W.T.O. are made by consensus, a small number of countries can thwart the will of the majority, even a super majority. (The organization has 164 members.)"
Jun 12, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
This recent work by @hmmlowe talks about "Good news from India" - Food supply chains recovery in India by May end.

Here are a few thoughts and link to some articles that might provide a more holistic picture. 1/N 2/N Works by @ramakumarr, vikas rawal, and some other Op-eds report how the agricultural supply has been affected.

A few links here:
thehindu.com/data/data-mark…

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