Sound food policy should be a priority for India, on track for the world’s largest population by 2025. India has also achieved status as a major food exporter with rice, wheat and buffalo beef. Indian policies emphasize minimum support prices for farmers and subsidized crops for the poor, but...
NEW DELHI: After decades on the sidelines of international agricultural trade, India was poised last year to become a major food supplier, overtaking traditional exporters of food grain and meat. This could prove to be flash in the pan. The sudden...
China’s average age for retirement is 53, unchanged since the 1950s. But China’s economy has flourished and the nation’s average life expectancy is 75: “With the number of pensioners set to soar, and the number of young workers able to support them unable to keep up, China has been making long-...
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A common strategy in geopolitical rivalries is to accrue alliances, strengthen positions and counter competitors. Of course, Asia is rich with historic rivalries: India and China, Pakistan and India, Iran and Pakistan, Iran and the US, the US and China. Two ports in the Arabian Sea, one in Iran...
PARIS: Sino-Indian rivalry in the Indian Ocean and India’s naval cooperation with the US draw the world’s attention. But quietly, out of sight, a contest has been building in the Arabian Sea centered between two ports, one based in Pakistan and the...
For decades, Kashmir has been the target of competing Indian and Pakistani claims. Many Kashmiris, however, prefer full independence from both occupying powers. Ironically, these Kashmiri nationalists have seen their fortunes buoyed since the earthquake that devastated their homeland last year....
Last week 370 delegates gathered at the Neelum View Hotel in Muzaffarabad, "capital" of Pakistani-administered Kashmir. They were from the All Parties National Alliance (APNA), a coalition of nationalist parties...
The terms of a nuclear agreement with Iran are being implemented, followed by a prisoner exchange, planning for an order of Airbus planes, and release of frozen Iranian assets, but the Associated Press warns that rapid change is unlikely. “It will take time for the economic benefits to trickle down...
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The world confronts an immigration challenge as vast numbers flee conflict and religious persecution in the Middle East and South Asia along with stark poverty in Africa and South America. The world has 50 million forcibly displaced people, and millions more leave their homelands in search of...
Driven by poverty and persecution: Muslim Rohingya migrants from Buddhist-dominated Myanmar seek entry to Thailand (top); migrants from North Africa rescued in the Mediterranean
SINGAPORE: From the shores of the Mediterranean to the beaches of...
Tragedy unfolds in countries that fail to emphasize family planning or discourage people from having children they cannot afford – and economic hardship compounds the tragedy. Preaching and advertising fail to engage the poor in developing nations, particularly when large numbers are illiterate,...
Controlling the birth rate is a recurring issue in Egypt. But for some reason, family planning ventures into public debate in an erratic manner. We suddenly remember it, and then suddenly forget it. Recently, we have...
The world has a record-breaking number of grandparents, representing almost 20 percent of the global population. “Today’s grandparents play vital and increasingly indispensable roles in modern family life, contributing to the well-being of generations succeeding them,” explains Joseph Chamie. “...
Mutual support: As more families care for grandparents and grandparents care for children, countries around the world like India and Costa Rica set aside special days to celebrate the role of grandparents
NEW YORK: Of the world’s 7.6 billion people...
