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What You Need to Know About Growing Extremist Violence in Bangladesh

Nikhil Kumar and Rishi Iyengar April 29, 2016
Islamic extremists are targeting and killing bloggers, foreigners, atheists and gay-rights activists in Bangladesh. The country of 156 million people, poor and densely populated, has been profiled as a potential battle zone by an Islamic State magazine. Advocates for secularism expect the government to crack down on the violent extremists: “While condemning the blogger killings and promising...

Indonesia’s Hesitancy on the Global Stage

Nithin Coca April 27, 2016
Indonesia’s President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo pursues trade, but otherwise keeps a low profile in foreign affairs. The country is in line for a seat on the UN Security Council. Widodo has spoken out in favor of better representation for developing nations, but the country has largely focused on domestic issues since the regional financial crisis in 1998 and global debt crisis in 2008. Widodo calls...

A Tale of Two Countries

Nayan Chanda April 19, 2016
China and India each have their own methods for developing their industries, and Nayan Chanda reminds that a nation’s foreign direct investment, inward or outward, can achieve more than economic goals. The founding editor of YaleGlobal Online outlines differences between the approaches employed by China and India: “The main difference between the two is that one aims to grab cutting-edge...

Rohingya Left Behind in Myanmar's Power Transition

Lucy Kafanov April 1, 2016
Inequality and an utter lack of health care, education and opportunity for a minority group of people does not reflect well on governance. “Denied citizenship and voting rights as well as access to proper medical care and education, the Rohingya have been largely left behind in Myanmar's widely-lauded transition to democracy following a November election that swept Aung San Suu Kyi's...

Modi’s Middle East Outreach

Harsh V. Pant March 31, 2016
Investing and trading in the Middle East carry high risk due to difficult political transitions and ongoing conflicts. Like other major economies, India leverages economic clout for strategic purposes, especially to isolate rival Pakistan’s military and intelligence capabilities. India, soon to be the world’s most populous nation, has a minority Muslim population that’s larger than Pakistan’s....

Better Late Than Never

Nayan Chanda March 31, 2016
India has flung open the doors on foreign direct investment in its food retail sector. “Presenting the annual budget, the finance minister announced that his government would allow 100 per cent FDI in agricultural food processing, which covers the multi-brand retail of food products produced and manufactured in India,” writes Nayan Chanda, YaleGlobal’s founding editor, in his column for...

Caught In the Doldrums

Nayan Chanda March 23, 2016
World trade is slowing but “emerging weakness in India’s information technology (IT) and business processing sector is even more surprising in light of the global trend of exponential growth in digital commerce and information flow,” suggests Nayan Chanda, founding editor of YaleGlobal, in his column for Businessworld. He points out that, with IT and business process management representing 9.5...