India–Pakistan comparison
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The Cantonment and the Clean Street: Why Pakistan’s Punjab Looks More Ordered Than India’s
X.T.M asks why Pakistan’s Punjab feels more ordered than richer India. He answers that military cantonments and DHA enclaves are governed outside city control, so the order seen on Lahore’s…
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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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Dammed it you dont: The hydraulic origins of the divergence between the Raj, India and Pakistan
The author argues that attitudes to water explain the divergence of the Raj, India and Pakistan: the Gangetic plain needed no dams, peninsular India did, and India’s later dam building…
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Pakistan and India: Why Did They Diverge?
Omar Ali reproduces a Twitter thread by @FrankBullit67 on why India and Pakistan diverged after Partition, with his own comments under each section, and adds that the two may not…
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Why Pakistan is Middle Eastern
Using Hofstede’s cultural dimensions, with Egypt as a control for rural, low-income societies, the author argues Pakistan scores like Egypt and unlike India on individualism, uncertainty avoidance and indulgence, and…
