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Why Great Power Focus is Increasingly on Africa
Much attention this coming week will be focused on US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Africa, where he will unveil Washington’s new regional strategy.…
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Bangladesh’s Economic Crisis: How Did We Get Here?
The International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s willingness to support Bangladesh’s request for a 4.5 billion dollar bailout package over the next three years confirms that the country’s…
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Dealing With Inflation, Really
The inflationary wave has revealed all sorts of things about governments but also, more tellingly, about economists. The number of economists, and consequently policy-makers, who remain…
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India’s Population Surge: Dividend or Disaster?
The long-awaited report that India will surpass China as the world’s most populous country in 2023 has triggered debate in India, with the ruling right-wing Bhartiya…
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Carbon Pricing Isn’t Enough to Mitigate Climate Change
The deadly heat wave in Europe this month should provide an impetus for more aggressive state action on emissions. Last week, as a heat wave swept…
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Asia’s Economies Face Weakening Growth, Rising Inflation Pressures
A multifaced response, including increasing interest rates, is needed to prevent an upward spiral of price expectations and rising capital outflows. The global economic outlook has…
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Achieving SDGs in Extraordinary Times
The start of the “Decade of Action” to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has also marked the start of an unprecedented period of…
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The Underside to the Sri Lankan Crisis: Lessons for India
Should we cast an eye around the last decade or so worldwide, popular drives have yielded “strong” leaders who think they need not attend to widespread…
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Rise and Fall of Boris Johnson: Somewhat of a Global Phenomenon?
London Mayor Sadiq Khan described Boris Johnson’s political tenure as “…one of the most shameful sagas in the history of British politics …[who] presided over a…
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Populism in Asia is More Robust Than in Europe
Asian populists bank on ethnoreligious chauvinism, and weak institutions haven’t helped The UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, whom Donald Trump had once described as ‘Britain’s Trump,’…
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China Made a Failed Bet on Sri Lanka’s Rajapaksa Family
Beijing’s investments in the island look shaky after protests topple the government. As Sri Lankan protesters stormed the presidential residence in Colombo, the Chinese Embassy released…
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Shinzo Abe May Be Gone But His Legacy Lives On
The success of Abe’s LDP in Sunday’s legislative elections shows the slain former prime minister will continue to have an impact on Japan’s trajectory for years…
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The Lesson From Johnson’s Tenure – British Politics Needs Dragging Into the 21st Century
The UK’s creaking democracy is in crisis, and neither the Tories nor Labour have the answers to this frightening mess Over the next few weeks, a…
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Five Ways That The Super-Strong US Dollar Could Hurt The World Economy
The US dollar has been on a major surge against major global currencies in the past year, recently hitting levels not seen in 20 years. It…
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The Middle Class . . . in Perennial Struggle
There are all the worries we need to deal with, though we cannot say that we will tide over them anytime soon. For the middle class,…
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History Should Not Be Allowed to Repeat Itself in Afghanistan
Since 1979, Afghanistan has been a theater of two major global conflicts. We know what happened in the first instance: The Afghan people not only bore…