Focus 62 – Indian Urban Policy for Environmental Sustainability: The Role of Behavioural...
Abstract
The adoption of practices such as washing hands for a minimum of 20 seconds, excessive and frequent sanitisation, maintaining physical distance, etc. has compelled us to change our behaviours and adapt to the crisis, even if reluctantly. Amidst this pandemic, the world continues to face an ongoing environmental crisis....
COMMENT 122 – Pakistan’s tribal areas are brought in from the cold
An important domestic development occurred in Pakistan last month which went largely unnoticed externally: the merger of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), the tribal region along the border with Afghanistan, with the neighbouring province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KPK). This merger is a crucial moment for the almost...
Focus 84 – Chinese debt-trap
Significance and repercussions
On the wake of the current Sri Lankan socio-economic and political collapse, a strong international debate is being waged on the dangers of debt-traps in connection with the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ (BRI).
In the present paper we will make a brief historical review of the use of...
COMMENT 227 – From Kabul to Kyiv, Pakistan’s persistent diplomatic course
On February 23, Pakistan’s Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan arrived in Moscow for a two-days visit. According to open sources, the PM’s Russia trip was for a ‘exchange of views on major regional and international issues’, aiming at a reset of bilateral ties and ‘expanding cooperation in the energy...
COMMENT 117 – Globalisation: A view from India
The concept of global village coined by Marshall Mcluhan in the 1960s is materialising in the current phase of globalisation. The concept of global village entails several meanings - an ideal, a destination to be reached and a conceptualisation of the ongoing transformation in the community. The world in...
Bridging Borders: The SAARC Solution for Migration Governance – C277
As a development and humanitarian worker, I have observed countless migrant workers working in the middle east whose stories remain unheard. Their luck and overseas life decisions are often determined by their Kafeel (single sponsor who decides the residency and employment status of migrant workers in Middle East countries)....