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University of Calcutta (informally known as Calcutta University or CU) is a collegiate public state university located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.&nbsp;Within India it is recognized as a &quot;Five-Star University&quot; and accredited &quot;A&quot; Grade by National Assessment and Accreditation Council.

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The University of Calcutta has secured the Fifth position among the Universities of India in the prestigious &quot;Indian University Ranking 2019&quot; list, released by the NIRF of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.

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It was established on 24 January 1857, and was one of the first institutions in Asia to be established as a multidisciplinary and Western-style university. Its alumni and faculty include several heads of state, heads of government, social reformers, prominent artists, only academy award winner and Dirac medal winner in India, many Fellows of the Royal Society and five Nobel laureates as of 2019 which is highest in South Asia.

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Does public assistance for skills formation necessarily improve wage inequality in the future?

This article discusses a possible dialogue between Marxism and psychotherapy based on the letters between Louis Althusser and Jacques Lacan, exchanged between 1963 and 1969. This dialogue forms the ground for a dialogue between what has come to be known as the "critical tradition" and the "clinical tradition" which, in turn, becomes the ground for imagining what could be called "psycho-social studies". From the letters, this article explores three thematic angles: the angle of the "old" as Foucauldian askesis; the angle of the "beyond" as Marxian/Freudian theoretical form, or, put another way, the angle of the "break" as internal transition from ideology to science; and the angle of the "forbidden" as the Lacanian Real. In doing so, the article reflects on how these three angles could create conditions and conduits for a dialogue between post-metaphysical understandings of Marxism and psychotherapy. © 2015 John Wiley &amp; Sons, Ltd.

Psychotherapy and Politics International

The Althusser-Lacan Correspondence as Ground for Psycho-social Studies

Innovation in India: Combining Economic Growth with Inclusive Development

Evolution of Traditional Medical Systems Sector in India

According to Nehru, the transition from a backward agricultural society to a modern industrialized society was the only road for India to progress. So, for the past few decades, India has focused its transitional development around movement away from a state-controlled economy toward that of a free market economy. Transition and Development in India challenges the current basis of this theory of development, laying the groundwork for an entirely new Marxist approach to transition that should apply not just to India, but to all developing nations.

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Transition and Development in India

Transition and development in India

The rhetoric of inclusive growth has no doubt caught the imaginations of development planners and policy makers almost everywhere in the world. Recent policy and research documents from various institutions, ministries, individual researchers are abound with mention of inclusive as the most important ingredient for development. In India, the country which has observed sustained high growth of GDP for almost a decade now, every recent policy document has a reference to the target of making the growth pro-poor and inclusive. This continuing fascination about inclusive growth on the part of the researchers and policy-makers indicates that the economics community now recognizes the fact that the market-driven growth in some developing countries is not enough for development. In fact, there are now several evidences from individual countries which show that growth elasticity of poverty reduction decreases with high growth. Moreover, that higher income inequality reduces the poverty impact of growth is also well-documented. So inequality enhancing high growth not only may lead to adverse poverty impacts, but also has the potential to reduce the poverty impact of future growth. © 2013 Springer India. All rights are reserved.

Development and Sustainability: India in a Global Perspective

Inequality, public service provision, and exclusion of the poor

World University root node

Trade in Health Services and Globalization: The Role of Infinitesimal Changes of Trade Policy

Artha Vijnana

Secondary Hospitals in West Bengal: Health Care Resources and Technological Efficiency

Philosophers for Change

Class and need: Social surplus and Marxian theorization of development

The paper fabricates endogenous skill formation in a two-sector general equilibrium model where the unemployment of the skilled workers is caused by efficiency wage. The paper also examines the effects of the immigration of unskilled labor, the emigration of skilled labor, and the inflow of foreign capital on unemployment, skilled-unskilled wage inequality, and the level of skill formation in each unskilled working family. We find that the immigration of unskilled labor raises both the rate and level of unemployment of the skilled labor and lowers both the relative skilled-unskilled wage inequality and the level of skill formation in each unskilled working family under certain conditions. However, the emigration of skilled labor or the inflow of foreign capital gives opposite results. © 2013-Center for Economic Integration, Sejong Institution, Sejong University, All Rights Reserved.

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Journal of Economic Integration

Endogenous skill formation: Labor market integration by an immigration

HIV Epidemic is one of the deadliest health problems that has unleashed in the developing countries. Truly a harbinger of the global public health debacle after the globalization process, the disease has called for an unprecedented global response in the form of international aid on one hand and politico-economic anecdotes in pharmaceutical market on the other. This disease and its retort have brought in certain issues in economics like the fund allotment in prevention and cure, prevalence elasticity of private demand for prevention, the access to Anti Retrovial Therapy (ART) to the people living with HIV AIDS, the production and marketing processes of ART drugs in generic forms and above all the inefficiency of health systems in these countries. The paper analyses the global policy matrix to find that in the face of industrial capabilities and global politics, the huge international aid for this disease bypassed the need for care and treatment while concentrating on awareness generation among high risk groups leaving out the general population at large. The Indian policy contour is no different from this trend which neglects the basic principles of economics and medico-social setting of the country. © 2013 Springer India. All rights are reserved.