Lots of things happened in 1917 https://t.co/TbXhCJ9lPL https://t.co/wzuZzy9atw

If Tamil Nadu tops nearly all the health & social indicators along with Kerala, it is because of the Dravidian parties. Modi was the CM of Gujarat for 15 years and BJP has been in...

China will not de-industrialize. A new Bloomberg article has insightfully broken down China's strategy to go well above middle-income status, avoid technological blockades, proce...

Re-industrialization is much more challenging than industrialization, perhaps impossible for different reasons than many people think. The missing resource isn't knowledge or energ...

The most industrialized nations of the world are those with mfg value-added above roughly $10,000 per working age adult. These are (1) Germany, (2) Japan, (3) South Korea, and (4)...

McKinsey this week published stunning African economic data which seems to illustrate the scale of the continent's economic challenges. First take a look at this chart, since 199...

Next phase of industrialization in China is more geographically spread out Latest gen of EV, battery, solar, chip & other adv. mfg. facilities are located in inland Tier II/III ci...

How industrialization has led to assimilation and homogenization in Botswana: a long-belated ninth thread on my new book Industrialization and Assimilation: Understanding Ethnic Ch...

In 2007, China’s GDP was $3.55T, or 6% of global GDP. India’s $3.5T GDP today is 3.3%. India can form a meaningful pole only if it industrializes and services global needs. This ca...

I think this is the most succinct statement of India's political economy I've ever read. For some inexplicable reason, India has developed a post industrial economic class without...

Many of the issues people bring up about women receiving a formal education and working are valid concerns, but the issue isn’t with formal education and working in and of themselv...

#River_India ▪️Damodar river ( A Thread 🧵) ▪️ Damodar river rises in the hills of the Chotanagpur plateau and flows through a rift valley. ▪️Damodar River is a river flowing...

Common cope one sees from colonized or semi colonized countries is that they would have industrialized back then by citing Japan, unlikely Others who weren't full fledged colonies...

Threat on what happened in India this week, Aug 8 We're going to revisit a classic question — what is India's scope for rapid industrialization? Is there a growing opportunity no...

Russian regional news can be quite informative: "There's now a shortage of places on Nizhny Tagil graveyards" https://t.co/9qzD5Mk5G1

But we're not allowed democracy. When we voted in a guy who just wanted to reform the failing system—put up a wall, rebalance trade, try to reindustrialize—democracy *called* him H...

Today we tend to think of Western Europe as this rather homogeneously rich bloc of the world - with consistently high PCIs Even as late as 1950, this wasn't the case Britain was...

"EXPERIENCE" is a word we use every day. "Lived experience" has become, both a touchstone and bugaboo. But the philosophical history of experience is not well known. ( 🧵)