World Bank
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Indus Water Treaty: What lies in the future?
The author sets out the main disputes over the Indus Waters Treaty now held in abeyance: dispute-resolution forums, water distribution and dam design. Argues Pakistan’s deeper problem is population growth,…
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Pakistan – Falling Behind in the Indian Subcontinent
Bombay Badshah uses UN and Global Data Lab human development figures to argue that Pakistan now has the lowest HDI in the subcontinent, is set to fall below Nepal on…
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Travelling – Open Thread
Open thread collecting links from the comments: the rupee’s slide after US visa fee hikes, the Saudi–Pakistan defence pact, the World Bank on Pakistan’s growth model, and India’s rail-mounted Agni…
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An Indian, a Pakistani and a World Bank guy talk Afghanistan
A BP podcast in which two hosts and Karol Karpinski, a World Bank ‘financial plumber’ with Afghan experience, discuss Afghanistan and the American pullout; the host’s own summary of events…
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The decline in South Asian poverty
Razib Khan notes Brookings estimates that Nigeria has overtaken India as the country with the most people in extreme poverty, while India’s poverty keeps falling, and cites World Bank figures…
