On Wednesday alone, Modi addressed as many as four rallies, starting early in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh and ending late in a constituency 2,300 km (1429 miles) away in the western state of Maharashtra. Gandhi spoke in three rallies, all in the northeast....
Footnote 4 The termination of these hitherto durable-seeming alliances fundamentally altered political competition in one of India’s largest states, home to about as many people as Japan. In both cases, changes in the allies’ relative levels of support prompted the relative gainers (BJP and NCP...
33). OPP staff supported an Urban Resource Centre to strengthen the organizations of informal settlement residents across the city, and enhance their ability to engage successfully with both government and the broader constituency of professionals working in Karachi (Anwar, 2011, Urban Resource Centre,...
US federal agents at the Texas border arrested as many as 6,555 people when they tried to enter the US illegally. This is an increase in 86 per cent from the previous year. Nicaragua and the Honduras, two of the poorest nations in the hemisphere, were hit the ha...
This year's polls were held in 542 constituencies, after the election was cancelled in one constituency in southern state Tamil Nadu where votes would be polled at a later date. While the BJP seems winning over 300 seats on its own, its pre-poll alliance partners Janata Dal (United) seems...
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, this November, for example, might want to understand how international trade policies affect global emissions. A national policymaker, however, might need to balance attempts to decarbonize transport infrastructure against election promises they have made to car-factory workers in their constituency....
“completely failed to address the elephant in the room: that we must stop burning fossil fuels and switch to clean energy.” “contains false solutions such as ‘carbon markets.’ Many large global funders are still wedded to false solutions such as fracked gas, mega-dams, clean coal, and...
a powerful constituency. Yet policymakers should get used to blending complicated economic and technological fixes in this way. Increasingly, it is what fighting climate change will entail. Sorting out the mounting crisis in the world’s most important foodstuff would be a good place to begin. ■...
And during the long delays, many potential beneficiaries lost faith in the global health system. “I think that if we had had the vaccine earlier the coverage would have been much, much, much better,” said Stephen Bordotsiah, the municipal director of health services in the Bolgatanga ...