urbanisation
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Pakistan’s dramatic drop in fertility
X.T.M argues that Pakistan’s fertility fall from 3.61 to 3.19 children per woman reflects urbanisation, education, female work and social media rather than ideology or theology. He says religious societies…
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🌇 Dispatch from Dubai: The City-State That Arrived
Reflecting on a work trip, Zachary L. Zavidé argues that Dubai has become a city in command, a clean, optimised, culturally rooted prototype city-state, and suggests such cities will attract…
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Hindi Cinema As Visual Political Narrative
The author traces four phases of social change in post-independence India through Hindi films, beginning with the late 1950s to 1970s era of socialism, industrialisation and urbanisation, and arguing that,…
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Climate change is a development problem
The author argues that climate change in Bangladesh is mainly a development problem: even extreme sea-level scenarios would flood only a small part of the country, and subsistence farming on…
