Each January, Ahmedabad’s skyline transforms into a sea of vibrant kites flown joyfully from rooftops — many crafted by skilled artisans like Fatima. Fatima lives in the Danilimda neighborhood of Ahmedabad. In months leading up to the kite-flying festival of Uttarayan, she takes materials into her home and makes up to 300 kites per day with […]
One of the narratives being pushed by Russia is that its economy is doing better than the West, and that sanctions are not working. This column looks at how the Russian economy worked before the invasion in 2022 and some of key statistics currently coming out from Russian authorities. The findings suggest that the Russian […]
Democracy promotes economic development (Naidu et al. 2014, Acemoglu et al. 2019). However, a rising internal threat is spreading across democracies worldwide: populism (Tabellini 2019, Guriev and Papaioannou 2022). One way to conceptualise populism is as a ‘thin-centered’ ideology that views society as fundamentally divided into two homogeneous, opposing groups: ‘the people’ against ‘the elite’. […]
