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Manufacturing, which should still form the base of our economy in the coming decades, must be more productive and will, in any case, require fewer workers to make garments, leather goods, and IT products. We will depend on innovation in artificial intelligence, quantum computing and general-purpose technologies.

Article: Fareed Zakaria on Liberalism vs. Illiberalism (REVIEW ESSAY) - The seasoned Indian American journalist, commentator, and author Fareed Zakaria (born in Mumbai in 1964; Ph.D. in government, Harvard University, 1993) has published a timely new book, Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present (W. W. Norton, 2024), about the print culture that emerged in Western culture after the Gutenberg printing press emerged in Europe in the mid-1450s.

There is a current hot debate in Zimbabwe about access to quality internet services, whose main premise is the possibility of licensing of an international company that is widely understood to be able to provide widespread coverage across the country with great efficiency. A number of issues form the points of discussion: first, affordability, cost-effectiveness…

Indias development will speed up over the next five years. Narendra Modis vision for India in the 21st century focuses on higher growth with redistributive efficiency. If he makes a third term, governance reform will be a priority. This offers a guarantee for Indians to prosper before growing old.

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Pierre Zumbach, the high counselor attached to the presidency of the Inter-Progress Foundation, the organizing body behind the Yaoundé International

Europe’s greatest intellectual publishes a monumental 1,752-page work that takes a look at the history of philosophy. He is a part of it thanks to his theory of deliberative democracy

India needs to bolster its labour-intensive manufacturing, revive its MSMEs and upskill its workers to take advantage of its young workforce.

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership is offering Cambodia a conducive platform for structural economic transformation and diversifying from textile-garment exports,...

Budget support offers direct financing to a country’s treasury to create more “fiscal space” for public programs. It has constituted some 14 percent of ODA on average, increasing to over 20 percent in times of crisis. No aid modality is more controversial. Critics argue that, without earmarking funds to individual projects, they can be stolen or diverted to unproductive uses, and that, unlike investment projects, budget support produces no “tangible” results.