India can adopt a new path to development, one that no developing country has taken before, wherein its firms come up with world-beating ideas and products and deliver them globally. No large ...

Democracy is in crisis. Anti-democratic politicians and anti-rights movements are becoming more popular. Simultaneously, growing inequality around the world – a product of neoliberal capitalist ...

Former president Goodluck Jonathan queries why democracy fails to deliver growth in Africa, citing economic success in non-democratic nations and urging reforms.

Political science scholars examined worldwide democratic backsliding and emphasized the need to strengthen pro-democracy coalitions during a Wednesday event titled “Global Challenges & Responses to ...

Attempts at strengthening democracy have focused too much on building institutions such as the judiciary and electoral systems. While these are all necessary for a healthy democracy, these attempts ...

Kathmandu, Aug. 3 -- Ajay Das served as programme director for the Asia Foundation's Civil Society and Media programme for two and a half years. The project was funded by the USAID, but in January, ...

There are uncanny similarities in terms of the intensity of competitiveness and degree of bitterness at the outcome of the polls between the 1979 and 2023 presidential elections, although the two ...