economy - Himal Southasian (Page 5)

A ‘patriotic’ loan

After years of refusing to become tied to the strings attached to IMF monies, Sri Lanka has agreed to a massive new loan. But will it be enough to lift the economy from its current morass?

By Balasingham Skanthakumar

/ 1 Oct 2009

Delhi, old and new

There is Old Delhi, the ancient city by the Jamuna; and there is New Delhi, built by Lutyens and the capital of the Raj, just in time to be intercepted

By Kanak Mani Dixit

/ 8 Sep 2009

Opium den

Afghanistan's opium economy has been called the most serious problem facing the country today. President Hamid Karzai has long warned that either "we destroy the problem or

By Mathew Starnes

/ 14 Jul 2009

The end of export-led growth

The wisdom preached by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and nearly all mainstream economists during the past quarter-century of what has been (mistakenly) called 'neo-

By The Editors

/ 1 Jun 2009

Economic war footing

Constant theorising notwithstanding, at the moment no one has a clear understanding of when the current global economic meltdown will pass, or what the landscape will look like when it

By Mahendra P. Lama

/ 30 May 2009

Beginning of the end of the Chinese miracle

China has the world's fastest-slowing economy. According to official statistics, gross domestic product skyrocketed a staggering 13.0 percent in 2007. In fact, in all likelihood that

By Gordon G Chang

/ 17 May 2009

Lifting the bamboo curtain

There was a long-held myth that the only manmade object visible from space was the Great Wall of China. Yet astronauts have since confirmed that Chinese cities at night

By The Editors

/ 1 May 2009

Over to the lok

India's 15th Lok Sabha election is just around the corner, with Indian voters set to cast their ballots between 16 April and 13 May in polling spread over

By Pratap Somvanshi

/ 1 Apr 2009

Poor America

The idea of the American dream – that vague but iridescent image of the US as a cultural melting pot of opportunity and freedom – has long been an enviable and profitable

By The Editors

/ 30 Dec 2008

The Statue of Liberty on a dark, cloudy day

Still Shining India

The paradoxes that abound in a rich country with poor people are legion, and the Indian condition is no exception. The yawning chasm between the cruel realities on the ground

By The Editors

/ 1 Mar 2007

A tale of two civilisations

Civilisationally speaking, we should be talking about the relationship between China and 'Indic' Southasia, rather than between China and the individual countries of our region. But there will

By The Editors

/ 1 Sep 2006

China, Southasia and India

The relationship between Southasia and China has necessarily to be seen through the prism of the relationship between India and China.

By Simon Long

/ 1 Sep 2006