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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. Hypocrisy on Stilts in India
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    Hypocrisy on Stilts in India

    Mar 14, 2023 Shashi Tharoor condemns the ruling BJP's overreaction to opposition leader Rahul Gandhi's remarks on the country's democracy.

  2. India’s Thin-Skinned Leaders
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    India’s Thin-Skinned Leaders

    Feb 20, 2023 Shashi Tharoor argues that the Modi government’s petulant response to foreign criticism conveys weakness, not strength.

  3. Shashi Tharoor on India-Russia relations, the Quad, Ambedkar, and more
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    Shashi Tharoor on India-Russia relations, the Quad, Ambedkar, and more

    Jan 24, 2023 Shashi Tharoor assesses prevailing Indian perceptions of the Ukraine War, criticizes India’s continued wariness of security pacts, touts affirmative-action programs that guarantee outcomes, not just access to opportunities, and more.

  4. America’s Missing Ambassador to India
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    America’s Missing Ambassador to India

    Jan 9, 2023 Shashi Tharoor criticizes the White House for failing to fill the top diplomatic post at the New Delhi embassy.

  5. India’s Looming Demographic Divide
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    India’s Looming Demographic Divide

    Dec 16, 2022 Shashi Tharoor examines the political implications of growing disparities between the country’s north and south.

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    Hell in the Holy Land

    Carl Bildt fears that the stage is set for another major violent conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
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    The Fed Must Not Flinch

    Michael R. Strain urges the US central bank to continue raising interest rates, despite signs of financial-sector fragility.
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    Reimagining Development

    Andrew Sheng & Xiao Geng argue that grassroots engagement and social enterprise are crucial to achieving countries' aspirations.
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    What the World Bank Can Do About Climate Change

    Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg explains how the institution can maximize its contribution to the global net-zero agenda.
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    Richard Haass on Russia, Taiwan, and US democracy

    Richard Haass explains what caused the Ukraine war, urges the West to scrutinize its economic dependence on China, proposes ways to reverse the dangerous deterioration of democracy in America, and more.
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    Price Stability vs. Financial Stability?

    Willem H. Buiter

    If the US Federal Reserve raises its policy interest rate by as much as is necessary to rein in inflation, it will most likely further depress the market value of the long-duration securities parked on many banks' balance sheets. So be it.

     thinks central banks can achieve both, despite the occurrence of a liquidity crisis amid high inflation.
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    Fifty Years of Floating Currencies

    Jeffrey Frankel

    The half-century since the official demise of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates has shown the benefits of what replaced it. While some may feel nostalgic for the postwar monetary system, its collapse was inevitable, and what looked like failure has given rise to a remarkably resilient regime.

     explains why the shift toward exchange-rate flexibility after 1973 was not a policy failure, as many believed.
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    What Do America’s Spies Really Think About China?

    Kent Harrington thinks the intelligence community’s annual threat assessment should have delved deeper on the issue.
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    Waking Up to the World’s Water Crisis

    Quentin Grafton, et al. see three overarching priorities for the first global water conference in almost a half-century.

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