State, Business, and Economic Growth in India

For the past 25 years, India’s economy has grown at an average rate of nearly 6% annually. The widely embraced argument that this growth acceleration results from the Indian state’s adoption of a pro-market strategy is inadequate for two reasons: the higher growth rate began a full decade before the liberalizing 2reforms in 1991; and post-1991 industrial growth has not accelerated. Instead, India’s economy has grown briskly because the Indian state has prioritized growth since about 1980, and slowly embraced Indian capital as its main ruling ally. This pro-business growth strategy is likely to have adverse distributional and political consequences.     

The role of western media in the environmental agenda setting of Hong Kong

This study focuses on the role of foreign media in agenda setting. It undertakes a comparative content analysis of the Chinese and English daily newspapers in Hong Kong with the objective of assessing the true nature of environmental sensitivity in the territory's “native” and “exposed” populations. The news coverage of the time period directly preceding and during the adoption stage of major environmental ordinances reflects that the pressure to act was as much native as foreign. It came as much from within as from outside. Consequently, the study makes a case for the need to acknowledge the indigenous character of policy problems and to search for intrinsic solutions. The myth of environmentalism as being a western concept may limit the range of possibilities open to policy makers in non‐western countries.