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Current History (2020) 119 (813): 15–21.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Xuefei Ren Comparing China, India, and Brazil reveals that current housing policies in all three countries have produced new forms of exclusion for inhabitants of informal settlements. © 2020 Current History. All rights reserved. 2020 The Regents of the University of California China...
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Comparing China, India, and Brazil reveals that current housing policies in all three countries have produced new forms of exclusion for inhabitants of informal settlements.
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Current History (2019) 118 (807): 123–129.
Published: 01 April 2019
... Anirudh Krishna India social mobility inequality education employment jobs caste system health care women's rights Narendra Modi 123 How to extend equality of opportunity across a vast and growing population is one of the most important problems facing India to- day. The ideal of...
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“For many … significant upward mobility remains a doubtful prospect, while substantial downward mobility is a real possibility.” Eighth in a series on social mobility around the world .
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Current History (2019) 118 (807): 137–142.
Published: 01 April 2019
... Lanka China India civil war reconciliation transitional justice Tamils Buddhists Muslims Mahinda Rajapaksa democracy constitution debt trap 137 Sri Lanka s ethnoreligious divisions are bound to continue as long as the likes of Rajapaksa dominate the island s political scene. Sri...
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Sri Lanka's ethnoreligious divisions are bound to continue as long as the likes of Rajapaksa dominate the island's political scene.
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Current History (2019) 118 (804): 16–21.
Published: 01 January 2019
... of California Frank-Borge Wietzke social mobility middle class poverty inequality economic policy politics identity developing countries China India Brazil 16 Political conflicts can flare up when new, increasingly vocal lower-middle- income groups enter the political arena...
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Political conflicts can flare up when new, increasingly vocal lower-middle-income groups enter the political arena and when this threatens the advantaged positions of established middle classes.
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Current History (2018) 117 (798): 142–147.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Raffaello Pantucci Beijing's miscalculations regarding India have created conflict with a regional power that has the capability and desire to disrupt China's outward push. © 2018 Current History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University of California Raffaello Pantucci...
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Beijing's miscalculations regarding India have created conflict with a regional power that has the capability and desire to disrupt China's outward push.
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Current History (2018) 117 (798): 151–153.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Sumit Ganguly India has emerged onto the global stage after decades of adherence to strategic nonalignment and protectionist trade rules limited its influence. But triumphalism is premature. Our Time Has Come: How India Is Making Its Place in the World , by Alyssa Ayres Oxford University...
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India has emerged onto the global stage after decades of adherence to strategic nonalignment and protectionist trade rules limited its influence. But triumphalism is premature.
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Current History (2018) 117 (798): 148–150.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Neeti Nair Whether in India, Pakistan, or Myanmar, governments have failed to protect minorities, and too often politicians have pandered to agitators stirring up sectarian hatred. © 2018 Current History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University of California Neeti Nair...
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Whether in India, Pakistan, or Myanmar, governments have failed to protect minorities, and too often politicians have pandered to agitators stirring up sectarian hatred.
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Current History (2018) 117 (795): 3–9.
Published: 01 January 2018
... University of California Rosamond Naylor food security famine hunger agriculture Green Revolution foreign aid population China India climate change malnutrition obesity Ending world hunger is a universal goal, yet progress and social awareness of the issue waxes and wanes in the...
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What will it take to meet the global food needs of up to 10 billion people by midcentury in the midst of expanding civil conflicts, human displacement, extreme climate events, and other natural disasters?
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Current History (2017) 116 (789): 123–129.
Published: 01 April 2017
... History. All rights reserved. 2017 The Regents of the University of California Chitralekha Zutshi Kashmir India Pakistan Srinagar Jammu Partition British Empire Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah Islamist militancy Lashkar-i-Taiba Jaish-e-Muhammad Burhan Wani Hizbul Mujahidden...
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Caught between two feuding countries, neither of which has truly incorporated Kashmir into its nationalist imagination or institutional structures, Kashmiris have developed their own nationalist narrative to assert their distinctiveness and desire for freedom.
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Current History (2017) 116 (789): 148–153.
Published: 01 April 2017
... India Pakistan Bangladesh Nepal Ganges River Indus River Brahmaputra River Indus Water Treaty Ganges Waters Treaty climate change environment rivers South Asia 148 [D]isputes have deepened to the extent that water is seen as inherently a source of conflict rather than...
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[D]isputes have deepened to the extent that water is seen as inherently a source of conflict rather than productivity or cooperation.
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Current History (2017) 116 (789): 157–159.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Sumit Ganguly A new book on Britain's reign in the subcontinent, departing from earlier generations of scholarship, does not sanitize the brutality and racism that undergirded the colonial enterprise. The Chaos of Empire: The British Raj and the Conquest of India , by Jon Wilson . Public...
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A new book on Britain's reign in the subcontinent, departing from earlier generations of scholarship, does not sanitize the brutality and racism that undergirded the colonial enterprise.
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Current History (2017) 116 (789): 154–156.
Published: 01 April 2017
... California Anirudh Krishna India demonetization Narendra Modi corruption tax evasion banking informal economy currency PERSPECTIVE Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to the airwaves on November 8, 2016, to an-nounce a plan that would destroy black money, a bane of the Indian...
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An attempt to curb tax evasion by taking large-denomination bills out of circulation overnight imposed new hardships on an Indian populace long accustomed to capricious government initiatives.
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Current History (2017) 116 (789): 142–147.
Published: 01 April 2017
... Current History. All rights reserved. 2017 The Regents of the University of California Emmanuel Teitelbaum India labor unions organized labor employment Narendra Modi Bharatiya Janata Party National Democratic Alliance Trade Unions Act Contract Labor Act Industrial Disputes...
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Ironically, the interests and objectives of union leaders may align with those of the ruling coalition: employment growth in the organized sector is essential to the labor movement's survival in the coming decades, just as it is for the survival of the Modi government.
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Current History (2016) 115 (784): 291–297.
Published: 01 November 2016
... University of California Fiona Adamson globalization diasporas diaspora politics Eritrea Iraq Kurds India Sri Lanka Tigers Tamil Eeelam Irish-Americans American Israel Public Affairs Committee AIPAC Mexico Mexican-Americans A few decades ago, there was little interest in...
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[D]iaspora politics can be viewed as not only enhancing or challenging state power in particular cases, but also contributing to new forms of global identity politics that transcend state institutions.
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Current History (2016) 115 (780): 157–159.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Sheila Jasanoff India's long-held penchant for big development projects has worsened its severe ecological problems. A new book draws attention to the promise of smaller-scale solutions. A River Runs Again: India's Natural World in Crisis, from the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of...
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India's long-held penchant for big development projects has worsened its severe ecological problems. A new book draws attention to the promise of smaller-scale solutions.
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Current History (2016) 115 (780): 123–129.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Arvind Rajagopal The public sphere of debate and discussion predicated on transparency has given way to a public sphere of image and spectacle. © 2016 Current History. All rights reserved. 2016 The Regents of the University of California Arvind Rajagopal India public sphere...
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The public sphere of debate and discussion predicated on transparency has given way to a public sphere of image and spectacle.
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Current History (2016) 115 (780): 150–153.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Kanchan Chandra Although the majority of elected members of Parliament in India now come from subaltern categories, they belong to parties that are dominated by the Hindu upper castes. © 2016 Current History. All rights reserved. 2016 The Regents of the University of California Kanchan...
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Although the majority of elected members of Parliament in India now come from subaltern categories, they belong to parties that are dominated by the Hindu upper castes.
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Current History (2016) 115 (780): 154–156.
Published: 01 April 2016
... University of California Amanda Snellinger Nepal constitution separatism ethnic politics youth Madhesi movements Maoists Tarai Birganj Kathmandu earthquake India Constituent Assembly PERSPECTIVE In May 2013 I arrived in Birganj, a border town in southern Nepal s Parsa district, to do...
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Nepal's new constitution was supposed to cap a momentous decade that saw the end of the monarchy and civil war. But identity politics and economic discontent have called national unity into question.
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Current History (2016) 115 (777): 3–9.
Published: 01 January 2016
... China India United States United Nations Framework Convention Climate Change Kyoto Protocol carbon emissions greenhouse gas Barack Obama Clean Power Plan Climate change has finally come of age politically. Before the recently concluded Paris negotiations, the issue was not ripe for...
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[F]or many developing countries, the Paris agreement is better than no deal and an important step in the right direction.
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Current History (2015) 114 (775): 291–297.
Published: 01 November 2015
... Anirudh Krishna developing countries inequality rural urban disparities globalization wealth distribution poverty democracy India A dilemma of governance is rearing its head in developing countries with large rural populations. More than half the world s population lives in such countries...
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For generations, this urban bias in policy making, inherited from colonial times, has stunted the growth of human capital among the vast rural populations of [developing] countries.