The Balance Of Soft Power
As in the United States, soft power has been treated as a hopeful idea in China: an important additive to the country’s rise, especially its economic expansion. Read More Here
Tag: Economy
The Post-Global Economy
A succession of shocks over the past decade and a half have significantly reversed the dominant international economic trend of the post-Cold War era. Read More Here
India’s Taiwan Moment
Realities in the Indo-Pacific region have changed, and it’s time for New Delhi to deepen its political ties with Taipei. Read More Here
One Year Later, Afghanistan Is A Land Of Shrugs And Sadness
One year on, some things in Afghanistan have improved. Corruption, a bane of the former Afghan republic, is apparently on the wane. Large-scale fighting has largely stopped, and people in rural areas are rebuilding. At the same time, almost every Afghan is now, according to the United Nations, living below the poverty line. Read More Here
How India Can Sustain Rapid Economic Growth
Given its favourable demography, democratic polity, and large and diversified economy, India can in principle grow at 7% or higher for years to come. But the only route to such growth that remains open runs through structural reforms that the government has taken off the table. Read More Here
Xi Jinping Reemerges In Sign China’s Secretive Summer Retreat Is Over
China’s President Xi Jinping has made his first public appearance in two weeks, in a sign that the Communist Party’s annual secretive summer retreat on the Yellow Sea has ended. Read More Here
The Beginning Of History
The prospect of a timeless future has given way to visions of no future at all. Ideology remains a fault line in geopolitics, market globalisation is fragmenting, and great-power conflict has become increasingly likely. Read More Here
A Prescription For India greatness
The size of India’s population and its standing as the world’s largest democracy already deliver a measure of global political clout. Yet India’s palpable aspiration to assume its rightful place as a great power requires some big changes. Read More Here
From Great Moderation To Great Stagflation
For decades, relative global stability, sound economic-policy management, and the steady expansion of trade to and from emerging markets combined to keep costs down. But now all these conditions have been overturned, and the world is settling into a dangerous and destabilizing new regime. Read More Here
The New Economics Of Fertility
People and economies will prosper if policymakers help women combine career and family. Read More Here
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