We are living through the final period of urbanization in human history, with approximately 78 million new residents being added to cities annually. These new urban residents are concentrated in countries in the Global South, which often lack the critical infrastructure and effective governance needed to accommodate rapid urban expansion. The choic... See more

Any discussion of South Asia begins and ends with India. In addition to its rising population, India’s economy is large and growing, in recent years at the robust rate of around 7 percent annually. India’s economy is the world’s seventh largest and will soon be in the top five, trailing only the United States, China, Japan, and Germany (overtaking

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This new age of globalization, like the past ages, will create new patterns of global economic activity, jobs, lifestyles, and geopolitics. This new age arrives together with another fundamental development: a human-caused ecological crisis hitting the planet. The dramatic successes of globalization during the past two centuries have sown the seeds

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And while countries like China and South Korea benefitted from the global relocation of production after the 1970s, the same will not hold true for today’s lower GDP countries like Bangladesh and Indonesia. This time, capital’s ‘fix’ is primarily technological rather than spatial. That has stark implications for how poorer countries might navigate

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