state capacity
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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 Is Not About to Break Apart
X.T.M argues predictions of Pakistan’s imminent break-up are confirmation bias, since Pashtuns are integrated into the state and economy and states collapse only when elites defect, borders become porous and…
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A Brown Pundit Visits China
After five days in Shanghai and Beijing, the author reports on China’s imposing infrastructure and unobtrusive but ever-present state, the absence of religiosity and billboards, and high female workforce participation,…
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The determinants of prosperity in South Asia
The author charts GDP per capita across South Asian states, provinces and countries to ask whether policy and state capacity or geography and history explain prosperity, and identifies roughly five…
