Human capital
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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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Indian futures
Responding to Noah Smith’s bullish piece on India, the author takes agglomeration as the economist’s main lesson, argues that huge nations scale in ways small ones cannot, and flags human…
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The the origins of the false moral panic about caste in the USA
Razib Khan calls the push to ban caste discrimination in US institutions, such as Brown University, a false moral panic, arguing that few Indian Americans are Dalit or care about…
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White privilege, and how to get it
Citing an infographic showing Indian American women out-earning white men while Pakistani and Bangladeshi women earn less, the author attributes the Indian gap to human capital and asks how those…
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From basket-case to garment superpower
The author says an article uses Bangladesh as a prop to attack Pakistan’s rulers, though Bangladesh has governance problems and textile dependence, and notes the blog gets far more traffic…
