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With India at a crossroads, with a new government expected soon, the time is ripe to put healthcare reform at center stage, with the goal of pressing the next central government to achieve meaningful universal health coverage.
Pakistan is currently facing a number of significant challenges that have major implications for U.S. policy in the region and pose near-existential threats to the country itself.
Exit polls suggest that Narendra Modi is poised to become India’s next prime minister. The hope is that Modi can scale his regional economic success story in Gujarat into a national one.
Narendra Modi is well-placed to rebuild U.S.-India relations—but only if he and Washington can move beyond an old grudge.
Political scientists argue that the electoral process inevitably modernizes religious political parties. While the “moderation thesis” may have a point, it is largely irrelevant in the case of India.
Twelve years of war and billions of dollars spent in Afghanistan have neither eliminated the country’s insurgency nor dealt effectively with any of the regional irritants that have historically motivated Afghanistan’s neighbors to lend their support to various actors in the conflict.
The deluge of money in India’s political system is shaping more than just the nature of competition; it’s also having an effect on who gains entry into politics in the first place, as parties rely more on candidates who can pay their own way.
If the average GDP growth rate continues to hover at 4.5 percent to 5 percent per year, the current employment situation will not improve, and India will never generate a demand for labor that is even vaguely in line with its future supply.
India must innovate and bring efficiency to public expenditures if it is to alleviate poverty and extend true food security to its people.
While there will soon be a new government in New Delhi, India’s foreign policy challenges promise to remain more or less constant.