...Vineeta Yadav In 2023, India experienced another year of strong economic growth; it was the fastest- growing economy in the world. However, as before, this growth was accompanied by growing unemployment and inequality between urban and rural regions. Furthermore, the year was marked yet again...

...Yunhee Choi Can foreign aid reduce violence in recipient countries? Empirical studies on the aid–conflict nexus have had mixed results. This paper argues that foreign aid can alleviate political violence in the recipient country, especially when it contributes to economic growth. To test...

...Yunhee Choi This paper examines the conditional effectiveness of foreign aid for economic growth. Theoretically, I argue that to maximize the chance to stay in office, the leaders of a large winning coalition will spend the aid money as intended, to provide public goods, which aids economic growth...

... > © 2023 by The Regents of the University of California 2023 Indonesia COVID-19 economic growth cooking oil police misconduct democracy G20 Indonesians braced wearily for a third wave of COVID in early 2022 as the Omicron variant reared its ugly head. As a whole, the country fared...

... malaise of bad governance, Bangladesh has continued to enjoy impressive economic growth. But it remains haunted by the desperate Rohingya exodus from Myanmar, and the decades-old Bihari question. © 2020 by The Regents of the University of California 2020 C. CHRISTINE FAIR Bangladesh in 2019 Hasina...

... Sirisena Mahinda Rajapaksa Ranil Wickremesinghe Sri Lanka constitutional amendment human rights economic growth CHANDRA R. DE SILVA Sri Lanka in 2015 A Year of Change ABSTRACT The year 2015 in Sri Lanka was characterized by a democratic transfer of power from the United People s Freedom Alliance...

... an all-time low. Still, Taiwan s relations with China were smooth, and Taiwan was able to make some gains in the international arena. KEYWORDS: economic growth, stalemate, Diaoyutai (or Senkaku) Islands, free trade agreement, approval rating INTRODUCTION There were no regular elections in Taiwan in 2013...

... economic growth Asian Survey, Vol. 52, Number 1, pp. 114 129. ISSN 0004-4687, electronic ISSN 1533-838X. © 2012 by the Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permis- sion to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California...

..., and communalism continue to rise in Asia, with each nation faced with the challenge of handling these semiconflictual forces. On balance, however, events in 2007 support cautious optimism. © 2008 by The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 2008 economic growth political...