Cover June 28, 2008	[EDITORIALS] Bent on Strategic Embrace The government is bent on forging a strategic partnership with the us without the consent of Parliament.  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

In the seemingly unending search for a solution to the ethno-political conflict in Sri Lanka, the Rajapakse administration has come up with a new strategy  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

This paper discusses the various factors that have been identified as responsible for the current global crisis in the availability of food and for the rise in prices of cereals  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

What can we learn from the process of economic reform in China and India? Does the sequencing of reform and an agriculture-led package matter? What could other developing countries and countries in economic transition learn from the experiences of In  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

There is a paradigm shift in the agricultural research and development policy of developing countries, primarily driven by scarcity of public funds  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

This essay explores and deplores a paradox – namely, that while India is the most interesting country in the world, we know so little about its history as an independent nation  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

India and Pakistan have been talking peace since 2003, yet they have continued to expand their nuclear arsenals. This suggests a failure both of imagination and of political will to seriously engage with the nuclear danger  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

Although the government of India has set a goal of increasing government health spending to 2-3 per cent of gross domestic product over the next five years, even with optimistic assumptions, it cannot meet the stated goal  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

With inflation shooting up, it is an appropriate time to critically discuss the quality of India’s inflation statistics  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

Summarising the key points from the submissions made to the Competition Commission of India, this article analyses one amendment to the Competition Act that covers the threshold limits of mergers of global companies operating in India which would be  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Programme in the Philippines has made substantial progress in dealing with land reform. Much more remains to be done and Filipino society is actively engaged in critically discussing the past and the future of CARP  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

A visit to the Kathmandu valley, the political and cultural centre of Nepal after the constituent assembly elections brings the author in touch with leaders of the major political parties, public intellectuals, and the representatives of commerce and  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

The inflation in food prices of the early 1970s that arose out of excess demand for cereals disappeared in later years not because of any significant supply augmentation, but because it was substituted by an income deflation on the working people, in  [Abstract]  [Full Article]