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Introduction
Over the past few years, I’ve gained an interest in securing options for residency outside of my home country, in particular via second citizenship.
There are a number of potential benefits that can arise from having a second residency option. These include professional and education opportunities, other economic opportunities, the ability to mitigate a variety of potential risks via relocation, travel benefits, and the potential extendability of these benefits to a spouse, descendants, or in rare cases friends and colleagues.
In this post I:
Provide thoughts on planning for a soon upcoming, largely unexpected departure
Describe long-term options for alternative residency
Are the Green Shoots of Governance Seen Since 2014 Wilting Under Increasing Fragility?
Under the BJP government since 2014, India has seen a deterioration of freedom of speech and expression, and an increased schism between different groups. Due to this, the improvement in governance has not really paid off.Â
Students and activists protest against violence in JNU campus at Gateway of India. Photo: PTI
Rights25/Jan/2021
The sustainability of growth, in the long run, depends not only on sound macroeconomic policies but also on good governance and low fragility.
Traditional macro-prudential policies alone cannot sustain high rates of growth, because the risk to key drivers, such as investment and productivity, can emanate from corruption, political instability and a host of other noneconomic factors. Hence, foreign investors not only assess the countryâs economic policies and regulatory regime but also its governance and fragility.
BUSINESS/Perspective
Nigeria is in dire economic straits and in one of its worst economic crises in its history as recently warned by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund last December. It is so bad that in November the Budget Office stated that 428 of Nigeria’s over 600 agencies would be unable to pay November salaries. In 2015, in order to reduce waste and cost of governance, the Oransanye report recommended the scrapping and merger of many of these federal agencies.
For more than 5 years, the Buhari administration continues to fund these mostly moribund, obsolete, ineffective ,duplicated, unnecessary agencies many replete with mismanagement and corruption. How can a country that houses 87 million extremely poor people, the highest in the world, be financing 14 Space agencies? This is a picture of President Buhari’s 2021 budget proposals for a few of these agencies many with personnel costs (P) ranging from 90% to 100% of their total budgetary allocations. Quite
An index measuring country stability finds the U.S. dropping
The Fragile States Index shows a worrying trend and it hasn’t yet accounted for the events of 2020 and 2021.
Published
18 Jan 2021, 17:08 GMT
January 6 2021: Trump supporters storm the Capitol building, in culmination of unrest in the wake of the presidential election. The events of this day will likely cause the social and political cohesion score to drop for 2021.
Photograph by lev radin / Alamy
The insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 blindsided many in the United States and abroad. But it may not have surprised close readers of the Fragile States Index. Produced annually by the nonprofit organisation Fund for Peace, the index assesses pressures on individual countries that potentially undermine their stability.