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Nepal’s Tryst With…Well, Whatever
Dark clouds hang over Nepal, promising rain and rejuvenation, but at the same time, threatening a destruction of life and property. The political scene is no different. In the next five months before...
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Saving The World The Silicon Valley Way
Not content with dominating IPOs on Wall Street, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are taking their can-do, failure-conquering, technology-enabled tactics to the challenge of global poverty. And why not?...
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Prosperity And The Americans
If proverbial Martians descended on Earth and toured America’s crowded shopping malls, traveled its congested highways and sampled its technological marvels — from the many cable channels to ubiquitous...
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A Fantasy From New Jersy
Is the “India Story” over, as many commentators have begun to observe? Actually, the more relevant question today is: How did it grow and circulate as widely and rapidly as it did? Unlike China, with...
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Why Isn’t India A Regional Leader?
Despite overtaking Japan as the third-largest economy, India has lost its leadership role in the continent because, unlike its eastern neighbours, it has ignored is poor Read Here – The HinduFiled...
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Southeast Asia’s Big Land Grab
Conflict over land tenure in Southeast Asia’s rural areas has emerged as a key issue for the region. To achieve goals such as economic development and poverty reduction in rural areas, governments in...
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No Conflict Means Asian Prosperity
We are seeing a tremendous rise in living standards across Asia, with poverty disappearing everywhere you look. In China, for example, since initiating market reforms, more than 600 million people have...
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South Africa’s Unfinished Business
South Africa is hardly an unqualified success story. The unemployment rate hovers just under 30 percent, and nearly a quarter of South Africans live at or near the poverty line. Read Here – Foreign...
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China’s Terrorism Tensions
Tensions in resource-rich western China have been escalating for years, as Han Chinese emigrate to the region, in many cases taking the best jobs while locals, especially those who don’t speak...
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Towards Digital Well Being
Tripling mobile Internet access over the next 15 years could make the developing world $22 trillion richer. Such improvement in the lives and earning potential of poor people could indirectly help with...
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A Global Middle Class Is More Promise than Reality
The first decade of this century witnessed an historic reduction in global poverty and a near doubling of the number of people who could be considered middle income. But the emergence of a truly global...
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Lowering World Poverty Depends On India
The future of global inequality, in other words, rests on India’s shoulders. To join the global middle class, India must do much better. It must improve infrastructure and education. It must implement...
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India’s Water Politics
From the San Francisco Bay area to Sao Paulo to Riyadh, water shortages increasingly cloud economic forecasts. But nowhere is the risk greater than in South Asia, where India, the largest economy and...
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Why Most Poor People Live In ‘Middle-Income Countries’
With a population of over 204 million, the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh would be the fifth most populous nation in the world — after China, India, the US and Russia — if it were a separate country....
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Pakistan’s Economy Is A Pleasant Surprise
Pakistan’s improvement matters because, with approximately 200 million people, it is the sixth most populous country in the world. It is also a nuclear power, and arguably a key to peace in the region....
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Will China And India Always Be Poorer? Probably Not
Since 1950, middle-income countries have nearly always grown faster than expected. Looking just at the past decade and a half, current middle-income countries that had an average gross national income...
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Throughout the continent of Africa—like throughout the rest of the world—extremism in all its forms has been on the rise. Unemployment, poverty, deprivation, marginalization can be contributing factors...
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For all the worries today about the explosion of inequality in rich countries, the last few decades have been remarkably good for the world’s poor. Between 1980 and 2016, the average income of the...
View ArticleWe’ve Just Had The Best Decade In Human History. Seriously
Let nobody tell you that the second decade of the 21st century has been a bad time. We are living through the greatest improvement in human living standards in history. Extreme poverty has fallen below...
View ArticleWhy the Pandemic And Populism Still Work Together
The theory that the pandemic would be bad for populists has not been tested yet in any national elections in Europe, but the amount of support Donald Trump won in the US presidential election shows...
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