解析印度宗教多元化危机

本文探讨了宗教民族主义与印度现阶段宗教多元化危机的关系,认为印度世俗的立国基础正在遭到破坏,以多元化著称的印度正面临着不确定的未来。     

对外开放与经济增长:中国与印度的比较——后冷战以来绩效与分析框架

本文以对外开放之经济增长效应为主线,从三个视角切入对后冷战以来中国和印度经济进行了比较,以期提出一个比较研究框架。三个视野分别为经济增长绩效视角、对外开放视角,以及开放之增长效应机理视角。分析显示,两国经济在后冷战以来都经历了快速增长,虽然印度经济增速慢于中国,但其稳定性更高,人均国民收入与中国的差距要小于名义经济总量(GDP)的差距。在对外开放方面,中国外贸与引进外资绩效明显,而印度在服务业出口和服务业利用外资方面则略胜于中国。在开放与增长联系及效应机理方面,虽然可以利用主流经济学提出的模型,但具体到中国和印度,应根据各自特点进行具体化修改。     

Rising giants: Development in China and India

Can economic growth turn overpopulation from a liability to an asset? China and India tantalize investors as the “last frontiers” of emerging consumer markets; together, they hold 37 percent of the world's 5.7 billion people. Despite their many contrasts, China and India face similiar, immense development hurdles. Mired in economic stagnation and poverty, both countries undertook economic reforms that gained momentum in the 1980s. In this comparative study, IIPS Senior Research Fellow Eimon Ueda analyzes their ongoing economic liberalization efforts and prospects. Ueda comes to IIPS from the Ministry of Finance and has served at the Japanese Embassy in India.     

The communist movement in India

Abstract

Non-aligned India has been the focal point of the super-power détente. The Soviet Union has been interested in fore-closing a revolution in India because it regards India as the very model of “national democracy” which lends itself to peaceful transition to socialism. Besides, the Soviet Union, like the United States, wants a stable, viable India to ensure a continuing Asian confrontation with China. Both the super powers have tried to underwrite India in order to ensure that it is not convulsed by revolution. As India has been drawn into the vortex of the superpower game to contain China, its non-alignment has lapsed into double alignment.     

Liberalisation,the state and agriculture in India

Indian state embarked upon a comprehensive reform of the economy in late 1980s, and there is more or less consensus amongst policy makers regarding liberalization. The reform process in India has not encountered much resistance from pressure groups because it has not made much headway in respect of debureaucratising and depoliticising the management of the infrastructure and in decentralizing rural development.

It is important in this context to look at the macroeconomic policy changes and its impact on agricultural sector. This article attempts to analyse the performance of Indian agriculture under liberalisation. We know that in the recent past Indian agriculture is being neglected. The benefits of liberalisation could not hitherto reach the rural poor because of the failure of economic reforms to penetrate into the vital agricultural sector. The article also attempts to analyse the adverse impact, if any, of free market conditions on the rural poor and suggests changes to revamp agriculture so as to make it more competitive.     

Tribal militias and political legitimacy in British India and Pakistan

ABSTRACT

Scholars have argued that governments rely on pro-government militias forces due to low state capacity or international pressure that limits how they use military force within the context of civil wars. This article argues that governments also strategically use militias both inside and outside of civil wars to support the political legitimacy of local systems of governance in developing states, especially in peripheral areas with limited government control. This suggests that long-term political motivations need to be considered alongside short-term tactical goals for a comprehensive understanding of militia support. This theory is supported by case studies of Pashtun tribal militias in British India and Pakistan based on archival research, interviews, and relevant secondary sources.