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Brown University professor writes that Modi's India is still an electoral democracy. But the longer Hindu nationalists remain in power, the weaker it'll become as a liberal democracy.

On Morten Jerven’s The Wealth and Poverty of African States.

SAN JOSÉ  —  The COVID-19 pandemic caused the most significant global disruption in education in modern history. With nine out of ten children around the world affected, two decades of progress on educational access and attainment are at risk.

64 Citation Laureates named by the Institute for Scientific Information have gone on to receive a Nobel Prize LONDON, Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Clarivate Plc (NYSE: CLVT), a global

Even before the pandemic, the state of education worldwide was far from ideal

64 Citation Laureates named by the Institute for Scientific Information have gone on to receive a Nobel Prize LONDON, Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --Clarivate Plc(NYSE: CLVT), a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, today named 20 world-class researchers from four countries as Citation Laureates. These are researchers whose work is deemed to be 'of Nobel class', as demonstrated by analysis carried out by the Institute for Scienti...

OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Some 14 years ago, Daron Acemoglu, Davide Ticchi and Andrea Vindigni argued in a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper (‘A Theory of Military Dictatorships’) that one, the elite who wish to maintain their political power motivate a powerful military; two, a po

Not only are billions of people around the world glued to their mobile phones, but the information they consume has changed dramatically – and not for the ..

SAN JOSÉ  —  The COVID-19 pandemic caused the most significant global disruption in education in modern history. With nine out of ten children around the world affected, two decades of progress on educational access and attainment are at risk.

The avalanche of corruption scandals unearthed in Malaysia involving billions of people’s money making corruption nearly a way of life that plagued all strata of institutions and society and can pave the pathway to the destruction of the nation and people.   Hearing of billions of ringgit being stolen whether it is 1MDB, SRC or LCS or many more other abbreviations, in an ordinary course of business, should have sent shock waves to all in Malaysia.  However, did it really send sho...