Where doing business is costly but politics is easy!

Doing politics in Bangladesh seems to be an easy task. This is reflected by the number of political parties - both registered and unregistered - jostling to participate in the next general election. But doing business here is a hard nut to crack. Bangladesh continues to face a number of...

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IOM monitors caravans of Central American migrants

The UN Migration Agency, IOM, continues to provide support and assistance to migrants who have joined the migrant caravans crossing Central America and opted to seek asylum in Mexico or return to their countries of origin.In the Siglo XXI Migratory Station of Tapachula, managed by the National Institute for Migration...

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Conditioning the market: Politics and US preferences

Given the political economy equation, why is the political component (at its extreme, the military), growing at this 21st century juncture? This was observed in the last Scopus piece (on the China-Japan, October 2018 thaw), but beginning with this piece, the length, breadth, and depth of such developments must be...

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