China’s growing ability to counter U.S. technologies and capabilities in space poses a real danger to America’s military superiority in the Asia-Pacific region.
India should step up its use of biometric identification to streamline its welfare system.
In India, politicians with criminal records are supplying what voters and parties demand: candidates who are effective and well-funded.
The BJP is reportedly evaluating various reform proposals to include in its manifesto. It is important to evaluate these on the basis of both economic theory and international experience.
China is poised to become a major strategic rival to the United States.
Manmohan Singh may, in the end, best be remembered for an economic reform that has resulted in more inequalities between the rich and the poor and between urban and village India.
The Aam Aadmi Party has capitalised on the anti-corruption campaign of Anna Hazare in which Arvind Kejriwal played a major role, which has somewhat re-politicised the urban middle class.
India needs a new approach to financial innovation and it is time the Reserve Bank of India realized that more of its mandate-driven approach is not the solution.
More than twenty years of economic reforms, in spite of corrective mechanisms, have resulted in a greater gap between the rich and the poor in India.
Robert Gates’ new book will go down as one of the most ill-tempered memoirs ever written by a former Cabinet secretary.