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Time to look at ‘Ease of Living’ Post-Covid world The unorganised sector needs a big boost   -  SOMASHEKARA GRN× Improving lives of poorest must be the measure of India’s progress, rather than ease of doing business for global investors The Covid virus’ second strike in India has revealed both bad and good sides of the country. Oxygen tankers flown from other countries for patients in the capital city of a country that sends rockets to the moon is clearly bad. Not enough doctors and primary-care facilities for patients in villages in a country that has some of the finest tertiary-...

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Source: Getty Summary:  Many African countries have placed economic diversification high on the policy agenda, yet they first need to define what it means in their specific structural and socioeconomic contexts. Related Media and Tools If you enjoyed reading this, subscribe for more! Thank you! Summary For decades, economic diversification has been a policy priority for low- and middle-income economies. In the words of former managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, “We know that economic diversification is go...

The Budget is strategic, wise, and visionary to turn India into a $5 trillion economy and a message to the world that India no longer plays by the handed over handbook, says Swati Khemani of Carnelian Capital.

Not totally liberal, right? they have ill liberal meters, these are democracies, let's start to appreciate them for the evolutions they are making and not pretend they are all going to become like china. they're no they're going in the opposite direction. i call state capacity. the capacity of a government to do things for its people. to deliver the basic job creation, social spending, healthcare. what you are seeing, into democracies, is 2 billion people and their governments, you are seeing this clear push to do more to deliver for people in a democratic fashion. we should support that. >> t...

End of the cold war, all the more alarming because of the growing development in use of weapons of mass destruction by state and nonstate actors. our adversaries as well as the other maligned actors are using cyber and other instruments of power to shape societies and markets, international rules and institutions, and international hot spots to their advantage. we have entered a period that can best be described as a race for technological superiority. against our adversaries who seek to sew division in the united states and weaken u.s. leadership. and nonstate actors, including terrorists and...