The Charter of Democracy agreed upon between Pakistan People's Party and the Nawaz Shariff-led Muslim League is a landmark document that creates the basis for a transition to durable civilian...
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A new wave of anti-capitalist non-electoral alternatives is spreading all over Latin America. The Other Campaign of the Zapatistas of Mexico, the Brazilian Landless Labourers Movement as well as the...
How much power will a caretaker government in Bangladesh have in the run-up to the elections? With the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Awami League locked in a stalemate in the preparations for...
Intellectuals are largely the world?s conscience-keepers, but the precipitous decline of the university into both self-censorship and a false patriotism is a worrying sign of the creeping influence...
Pervez Musharraf's call for "enlightened moderation" is a tacit (and welcome) admission that a theocratic Pakistan cannot work. There have been some changes for the good, but the minuses outweigh the...
The inflation targeting framework has been successfully implemented in several developed and developing countries. However, the success of this system requires equal commitment from the government...
The most effective way to manage the secessionist impulses in the Tamil polity is to reconstitute the state in such a way that the Tamils as well as other ethnic minorities share state power along...
Most of Pakistan's economic indicators have never looked so good. But a close scrutiny reveals a different picture. Income inequality has increased and inflation remains at 8 per cent per annum...
Practising policy-makers have not been tardy in jettisoning new classical-new Keynesian wisdom when called upon to do so. It turns out that in the industrial world, stabilisation policy, defined as...
It is finally alright for the desis to come out of their puja rooms and take their place on the American Bandstand. Indian-Americans are no longer the stealth immigration group, but the public...
There is no global process called "terrorism": each armed group with its own strategies and recourses to violence must be understood in a given context rather than as a feature of an elusive "...
At a time when insurgencies have been making headlines across south Asia, it is useful to identify some historical and geographical patterns of such conflicts in Pakistan. State security forces have...
Despite the poor performance of public sector undertakings, a growing consensus to privatise them, and a transparent and effective apparatus in place, India has been remarkably slow to actually...
Given the complex political forces at work presently in Nepal, it will need skilful political and civil leadership, besides international cooperation on the part of the UN and Nepal's neighbours, to...
Minority Rights and Human Rights The Rights of Minorities: A Commentary on the European Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities edited by Marc Weller; Oxford University Press...
