The period of the 1980s and 1990s marked a watershed for economic policymaking in South Asia. Eve... more The period of the 1980s and 1990s marked a watershed for economic policymaking in South Asia. Even though economic liberalisation took place in South Asian countries roughly during the same time, there were differences in the pace of the process and the factors that were behind the economic reforms. This research is a detailed comparative study of India and Pakistan’s economic liberalisation in the 1980s and 1990s. In this essay I am attempting to build upon the work of some of the most prominent writers on the political economy of liberalization including but not limited to Rahul Mukherji, David B. H. Denoon, Adnan Naseemullah and Richard Doner and consider a variety of factors like macroeconomic performance of statist policies, the changes in the strength and nature of relationship between the state and domestic interest groups, pressure from external organisations and ideational shifts within the technocracy. I come to the conclusion that the political and economic changes happening globally in 1980s and 1990s weaved their way into the causal mechanism of policy changes in India and Pakistan (foreign key) and combined with the changes in the the factors that held the statist development regimes in place (local key) and pressure from interest groups (private-sector key) caused the economic reforms.
Looking back at 2008 we can see a clear chain of events leading up to the Great Recession. This i... more Looking back at 2008 we can see a clear chain of events leading up to the Great Recession. This included the housing market bubble and the collapse of the financial sector. Although the lending regulations and housing bubble side are important, in this essay, due to practical constraints, I will only discuss the role financial sector regulations could have played to avoid the Great Recession by a large extent.
Jeremy Waldron has written extensively on the topic of hate speech regulation but because of prac... more Jeremy Waldron has written extensively on the topic of hate speech regulation but because of practical constraints and similarity of underlying concepts on which Waldron basis his arguments, this essay will deal with the evaluation of arguments for prohibiting hate speech as presented by Waldron in, what can be called his magnum opus, The Harm in Hate Speech. Waldron basis his argument for prohibiting hate speech on, the harm in hate speech
A systematic assessment of current energy systems and their capacity for adaptation, to meet the ... more A systematic assessment of current energy systems and their capacity for adaptation, to meet the twin challenges of eradication of energy poverty and climate change mitigation, needs to be at the centre of long-term strategic decision making at all levels-individual, local, industrial, national, regional and global. However, key political, economic and socio-technical aspects of energy systems and their effects on obstruction or facilitation of energy transitions, remain under-represented in policy making (Miller, et al., 2013, p. 135). This essay will investigate the political, economic and socio-technical complications of energy transitions with an emphasis on the interconnection of these challenges and its implications for the duration and nature of future energy transitions. The first section of the essay will evaluate the strengths and shortcomings of the definitions of 'energy transitions' used in the literature with the aim of distilling the good qualities of some of these definitions and incorporating them into a form that can be useful for answering the question at hand. The sections that follow will explain the political and socio-technical challenges of energy transitions (alongside key economic challenges) and how these are interlinked. In this essay, no single country has been used as a case study and instead examples of several different countries and their experiences of energy transitions have been employed because one of the chief objectives is to make a case for the sheer differences in the challenges faced by countries which render a solitary theory unavailing. Lastly, the essay will elaborate on the consequences of these challenges on the characteristics and progression of future energy transitions.
The period of the 1980s and 1990s marked a watershed for economic policymaking in South Asia. Eve... more The period of the 1980s and 1990s marked a watershed for economic policymaking in South Asia. Even though economic liberalisation took place in South Asian countries roughly during the same time, there were differences in the pace of the process and the factors that were behind the economic reforms. This research is a detailed comparative study of India and Pakistan’s economic liberalisation in the 1980s and 1990s. In this essay I am attempting to build upon the work of some of the most prominent writers on the political economy of liberalization including but not limited to Rahul Mukherji, David B. H. Denoon, Adnan Naseemullah and Richard Doner and consider a variety of factors like macroeconomic performance of statist policies, the changes in the strength and nature of relationship between the state and domestic interest groups, pressure from external organisations and ideational shifts within the technocracy. I come to the conclusion that the political and economic changes happening globally in 1980s and 1990s weaved their way into the causal mechanism of policy changes in India and Pakistan (foreign key) and combined with the changes in the the factors that held the statist development regimes in place (local key) and pressure from interest groups (private-sector key) caused the economic reforms.
Looking back at 2008 we can see a clear chain of events leading up to the Great Recession. This i... more Looking back at 2008 we can see a clear chain of events leading up to the Great Recession. This included the housing market bubble and the collapse of the financial sector. Although the lending regulations and housing bubble side are important, in this essay, due to practical constraints, I will only discuss the role financial sector regulations could have played to avoid the Great Recession by a large extent.
Jeremy Waldron has written extensively on the topic of hate speech regulation but because of prac... more Jeremy Waldron has written extensively on the topic of hate speech regulation but because of practical constraints and similarity of underlying concepts on which Waldron basis his arguments, this essay will deal with the evaluation of arguments for prohibiting hate speech as presented by Waldron in, what can be called his magnum opus, The Harm in Hate Speech. Waldron basis his argument for prohibiting hate speech on, the harm in hate speech
A systematic assessment of current energy systems and their capacity for adaptation, to meet the ... more A systematic assessment of current energy systems and their capacity for adaptation, to meet the twin challenges of eradication of energy poverty and climate change mitigation, needs to be at the centre of long-term strategic decision making at all levels-individual, local, industrial, national, regional and global. However, key political, economic and socio-technical aspects of energy systems and their effects on obstruction or facilitation of energy transitions, remain under-represented in policy making (Miller, et al., 2013, p. 135). This essay will investigate the political, economic and socio-technical complications of energy transitions with an emphasis on the interconnection of these challenges and its implications for the duration and nature of future energy transitions. The first section of the essay will evaluate the strengths and shortcomings of the definitions of 'energy transitions' used in the literature with the aim of distilling the good qualities of some of these definitions and incorporating them into a form that can be useful for answering the question at hand. The sections that follow will explain the political and socio-technical challenges of energy transitions (alongside key economic challenges) and how these are interlinked. In this essay, no single country has been used as a case study and instead examples of several different countries and their experiences of energy transitions have been employed because one of the chief objectives is to make a case for the sheer differences in the challenges faced by countries which render a solitary theory unavailing. Lastly, the essay will elaborate on the consequences of these challenges on the characteristics and progression of future energy transitions.
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performance of statist policies, the changes in the strength and nature of relationship between the state and domestic interest groups, pressure from external organisations and ideational shifts within the technocracy. I come to the conclusion that the political and economic changes happening globally in 1980s and 1990s weaved their way into the causal
mechanism of policy changes in India and Pakistan (foreign key) and combined with the changes in the the factors that held the statist development regimes in place (local key) and pressure from interest groups (private-sector key) caused the economic reforms.
performance of statist policies, the changes in the strength and nature of relationship between the state and domestic interest groups, pressure from external organisations and ideational shifts within the technocracy. I come to the conclusion that the political and economic changes happening globally in 1980s and 1990s weaved their way into the causal
mechanism of policy changes in India and Pakistan (foreign key) and combined with the changes in the the factors that held the statist development regimes in place (local key) and pressure from interest groups (private-sector key) caused the economic reforms.