Economy and development
Growth, trade, poverty, business and development.
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Hindenburg vs. Adnani
A Wall Street Journal report on the Adani Group losing about $64 billion in value after the Hindenburg short-seller report, with excerpts from it and a remark that the author…
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South Asian nations
Razib Khan dislikes the ‘GDP wars’ between India, Bangladesh and Pakistan and argues that health indicators are a harder-to-fake comparison, saying Pakistan is now the subcontinent’s ‘slow kid’ and that…
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India as a global factory: A project seventy years in the making
The author argues that Apple’s plan to make the iPhone 14 in India reflects a seventy-year project, from a country struggling to feed itself in the 1950s to state promotion…
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A confused post-Empire
Razib Khan quotes a column arguing that Truss’s Reaganism fails because Britain lacks the dollar’s reserve status, and says it fits Ed West’s view that Britain has been culturally swallowed…
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The flip side of globalization
Razib Khan links a report of protests across Bangladesh after a 52 percent fuel price rise, adding that global supply shocks from the Russia-Ukraine conflict will hit small developing nations…