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The other day I was in a taxi shuttling between Bhutan’s capital city of Thimphu and the Paro Valley along the Chhu River. I sat cleaved between two ladies in the back seat and as we passed the beautiful 14th century monastery of  Thangtong Gyalpo, the woman next to me tipped the last […]

To give the country credit, Pakistan is one of the few countries in the world to not obey the Okun’s Law which observes a ~2 percent decrease in GDP for every percent increase in unemployment.

The Stop Online Piracy Act, SOPA. The Protect Intellectual Property Act, PIPA. The ISP based Australian Internet filter, the Cybercrime Legislation Amendment Bill 2011 enforced by the Australian Communications and Media Authority. These are a few examples of many governments’ attempts, both within Australia and internationally, to fight what they see […]

In the following, “real estate-oriented tourism” means any tourism strategy that consists of encouraging people to buy real estate as a secondary residence. In her article “The Great Land Rush”, Arrianna Marie Coleman alerts us to the fact that small farmers are the first to suffer from new land deals […]

In the turmoil that follows a natural disaster, extreme forms of governance can flourish. But, says Muhammad Farhan, effective democracy is the best route back to stability.