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Income Inequality in India
Over the years, India has experienced severe income/wealth inequality. The finding on inequality remained consistent regardless of the approach used to measure it. In other words,…
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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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A Tale of Two Wars
Both sides think they’re winners, needn’t give in – but battlefield and European home front are separate wars It may be a tale of two wars…
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What Next?
Full 24 hours after the unprecedented mass protest that overthrew an elected but failed government in all of South Asia for the first time, there is…
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Meet the Ambassador | H.E. Charles Whiteley | European Union
It gives us immense pleasure to announce that, the first event of our “Meet the Ambassador” series, in collaboration with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Bangladesh, is going…
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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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Ukrainian Approach to Reform Has to Be Overcome to Achieve EU and NATO Membership
Following the European Union’s historic decision to grant Ukraine candidate status and NATO’s summit in Madrid, Kyiv officially embarked on the EU membership path with strong…
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Lankan Bureaucracy Needs to Do More to Ensure Good Governance
In developing countries, there is a deep-set notion that political leadership is the key to good governance and economic progress. For example, in Sri Lanka now,…
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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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Ukraine’s Case for EU Membership
In September 2002, I published a commentary in The Wall Street Journal entitled ‘Kyiv has a case for the EU.’ I was a first-term member of…
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Indian Democracy is Marching Towards Authoritarianism, Under the Garb of Pluralism
The arrests of Teesta Setalvad and Mohammed Zubair mark a critical point. Almost every other day now, the spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs seems…