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Through this series (read part 1 here), Deepanshu Mohan argues that the government has the opportunity to correct its misguided approach to spending and focus more on the social progress side of development, in the 2017 budget. “Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I have never heard of a poor person spending…

As countries around the world choose health over commercial interests, legal rights of giant corporate bodies are under grotesque violation. Swetha Meenal argues about the possible economic repercussions of the move in India, following the possible violation of Intellectual Property rights and the losses that ensue. On July 8, 2016 the six year legal battle against the government of Uruguay,…

Do you think Trump’s reimplementation of a slightly tweaked Reagonomics policy would work  for America, given the vast differences in the economy during Reagan’s era and now?  In the presidential race of United States, Donald J. Trump had a victory which has been summoning back the façade of former Republican President Ronald Reagan. Right from…

Mass media possesses the ability to not only shape public discourse but also determine the nature and direction of such discussions. This, however, is subject to contextual factors which give rise to an ‘audience’ and upon which the effect of the message is gauged. In this article, Atharva argues that the ability of mass media to…

A recent article on the Economist magazine makes a very direct (if rather obvious, on the second thought) argument that diagnoses why underdeveloped states do not attract resources for development. Specifically, in underdeveloped states, there is complete lack of popular confidence on proper functioning of bureaucracies, enforcement of laws, and legal acknowledgement of written agreements as stipulated in their…

Robert D. Kaplan is an American journalist whose articles about U.S. and Chinese power have spurred debates in the media, academia and high levels of governments.  Most of his works talk about the re-emergence of tensions, maybe they be historic or cultural, that were suspended temporarily during the Cold War. In his book, “Asia’s Cauldron”,…