Jan 08, 2024 22:19 pm UTC| Economy Politics
It has become an article of faith among many economists that Chinas pro-market reforms of the 1980s and 1990s ushered in a sustained reduction in poverty. This narrative relies on figures from the World Bank, showing...
Jan 04, 2024 04:36 am UTC| Politics
Logically, authoritarianism and libertarianism are contradictory. Supporters of authoritarian leaders share a state of mind in which they take direction from an idealised figurehead and closely identify with the group...
Will the supply-and-confidence deal between the Liberals and NDP survive in 2024?
Jan 01, 2024 12:09 pm UTC| Politics
Signed in March 2022, the supply-and-confidence agreement between the governing Liberals and the opposition New Democrats has already led to significant social policy expansion, including the adoption of the Canadian...
From Blue Pacific to Indo-Pacific: how politics and language define our ‘Indigenous ocean’
Jan 01, 2024 12:08 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
This is an edited extract from An Indigenous Ocean: Pacific Essays by Damon Salesa (Bridget Williams Books) In September 2017, at the 48th meeting of the Pacific Islands Forum, the political leaders of the Pacific...
India’s new manual for water supply will replicate past failures
Dec 26, 2023 23:16 pm UTC| Politics Economy
Water utilities in India supply residents with water for an average of only four hours per day. Within cities, some neighbourhoods receive water almost all the time, while some receive less than half an hour per...
As France moves to limit the rights of migrants, research reveals just how reliant on them it is
Dec 26, 2023 23:15 pm UTC| Politics Insights & Views
Once again, France finds itself in the grip of a political crisis. After the pension reform of June, which prompted more than one million people to take to the streets, president Emmanuel Macrons framework immigration bill...
Six books (and one play) to read to understand British politics today
Dec 26, 2023 23:14 pm UTC| Politics
With a general election on the horizon in 2024, this holiday season is a good time to curl up with a book that explains the state of British politics and society today. We asked politics experts for their...
Canadians are feeling increasingly powerless amid economic struggles and rising inequality
Another election, another round of Nigel Farage hype, with no lessons learned