The idea of promoting trans-frontier economic cooperation as a complement to the maintenance of peace and tranquillity on the border has begun to gain some traction in both Delhi and Beijing during the last few years.
None of the contenders in India’s upcoming election provide much real reassurance that they can revive India’s long-run economic growth rate.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s every word and deed of late seems designed to appeal to the Taliban leadership and its backers in Pakistan, and to fracture the partnership between Afghanistan and the American people.
As the world prepares to mark the anniversaries of the First and Second World War, the two great wars have acquired a peculiar political resonance in East Asia.
As the withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan approaches, anxieties about the future of the country have increased.
It will take more than a new government to fix India’s struggling economy. The country needs broad reforms and institutional change to address fundamental flaws in its economic system.
India must recognize its past errors in dealing with Beijing and its refusal to prepare the nation to cope with the rise of China.
Last month, the Election Commission of Pakistan, manifesting its independence, declared Nawaz Sharif one of the country’s richest parliamentarians and revealed his assets.
The RBI has asked the finance minister to amend the Reserve Bank of India Act, to allow it to supervise non-bank subsidiaries of banks.
India’s financial system has long been inadequate. The new Indian Financial Code promises to change business as usual.