Economy and development
Growth, trade, poverty, business and development.
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Back from Vermont
After a week skiing in Vermont, X.T.M argues that the Karakoram, Himalaya and Hindu Kush have the terrain for a major winter sports economy. Militarisation, contested borders and weak infrastructure,…
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Pakistan – Falling Behind in the Indian Subcontinent
Bombay Badshah uses UN and Global Data Lab human development figures to argue that Pakistan now has the lowest HDI in the subcontinent, is set to fall below Nepal on…
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Open Thread Modi and Drumpf announce US-IND Trade deal
Open thread on the US-India trade deal. RecoveringNewsJunkie says Trump claims India will stop buying Russian oil and buy $500 billion of US goods, which Modi did not mention, and…
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Why is the Pakistani consumer so poor?
Bombay Badshah notes that India’s GDP is about 11 times Pakistan’s, yet its cricket revenue, league rights and forex reserves are many times larger. He suggests Pakistan’s oversized military distorts…
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Bollywood, Brahmins, Parsis & WASPs:
X.T.M argues that elites are reproduced by property, institutions and networks rather than blood, so intermarriage is usually a merger, not a threat, citing English aristocrats and American heiresses, Parsis,…
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Does India have a “once in a millennium chance”?
Omar Ali argues India has a rare chance to become a developed power because of its capable people, intact cultural strengths and the inherited machinery of the Raj, and that…
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Pakistan and the Act of Union
X.T.M argues the only useful analogy for Pakistan ‘rejoining’ India is the 1707 Act of Union, an elite exit driven by insolvency and security, not affection, and says Pakistan’s debt…
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The Broken Compact
The author argues that the incremental Indian and American Dream, in which education and merit lead to mobility, has expired for a generation. He sees a new South Asian left…
