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Shashi Tharoor

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Shashi Tharoor, a former UN under-secretary-general and former Indian Minister of State for External Affairs and Minister of State for Human Resource Development, is an MP for the Indian National Congress. He is the author, most recently, of Ambedkar: A Life (Aleph Book Company, 2022).

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  1. India’s Lunar Triumph
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    India’s Lunar Triumph

    Sep 4, 2023 Shashi Tharoor explains how the country's achievements in space bolster its internal development and global role.

  2. India’s State of Violence
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    India’s State of Violence

    Aug 8, 2023 Shashi Tharoor condemns the lack of government action to end the fighting and destruction that has gripped Manipur since May.

  3. The US and India’s Non-Aligned Alliance
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    The US and India’s Non-Aligned Alliance

    Jul 5, 2023 Shashi Tharoor highlights the shared interests and values that drive the deepening ties between the two countries.

  4. The Modi Decade
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    The Modi Decade

    Jun 5, 2023 Shashi Tharoor assesses the sources of the Indian government's popularity, despite its mixed record over the last nine years.

  5. Crime and Punishment in Uttar Pradesh
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    Crime and Punishment in Uttar Pradesh

    May 2, 2023 Shashi Tharoor laments the weakness of a criminal-justice system that leaves Indians celebrating violent vigilantism.

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    Democracies Are Not “Backsliding”

    Jan-Werner Mueller thinks the language commonly used to describe the shift toward authoritarianism is hampering solutions.
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    Christine Lagarde’s Gifts to Populists

    Yanis Varoufakis worries that the European Central Bank's blunders have revived the far right's political fortunes.
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    Bridging the Climate-Development Gap

    Dani Rodrik & Ishac Diwan explain how to free up fiscal space for sustainable development in many low- and middle-income countries.
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    Lower Transaction Costs for Greater Innovation

    Andrew Sheng & Xiao Geng highlight the link between access to global markets and investment in research and development.
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    Ashoka Mody on Indian corruption, growth, jobs, and more

    Ashoka Mody explains the roots of the lack of accountability in India, highlights shortcomings in human capital and gender equality, casts doubt on the country’s ability to assume a Chinese-style role in manufacturing, and more.
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    Why India’s Women Are More Vulnerable to Disasters

    Joyita Roy Chowdhury & Prarthna Agarwal Goel call attention to gender inequalities that exacerbate the effects of floods and other natural catastrophes.
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    Europe in the Age of Industrial Policy

    Michael Spence

    While China and the US take advantage of scale to pursue large-scale investment in critical sectors, the EU struggles to follow suit, owing to its decentralized fiscal structures and rules limiting government subsidies to industry. A new EU-level investment program is urgently needed.

     advocates a federal investment program, funded by EU sovereign-debt issuance and administered centrally.
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    Fixing Global Governance

    Gordon Brown explains how to make the G20 and the Bretton Woods institutions fit for purpose once again.
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    The EU Needs Fiscal Union

    Lucrezia Reichlin laments the pro-cyclical bent of the European Commission’s proposed reforms to fiscal rules.

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