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Agreed! There needs to be much more coordination at the SAARC level to solve these issues. Honestly cross-border trade would be amazing for Northern India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. The Partition and…

Disclaimer - I'm not from that area, but I was talking with a buddy of mine from Larkana about this and the region of Sindh and Punjab that was badly affected is basically a badland with bad gove…

Some amount of flooding is expected in Kaccha/Katcha Doaba land, but this level of flooding was very anomalous due to Climate Change plus some questionable urban planning. Add to that the fact th…

When NCGs say "TC" (or at least the NCGs I've interacted with) they calculate it as Base_Salary+Total_Equity_Grant, when in reality it should be Base_Salary+(Total_Equity_Grant/Ves…

Yep! Exactly this! Apparently I need coffee to be coherent!

NCGs at Apple are hourly their first year (not sure if they are granted stock on date of hiring w/ a 1 year cliff or if it's granted after the probationary period), and Google has unofficall…

My 2 cents as a Zellenial: 1. I've spent an hour trying to find this survey but cannot. My hunch is it's an online survey with questionable reproducibility (especially after looking at simil…

Reposting because I'd be curious about the expeirence of a number of the HN readership during the Telco bust.

seems like an uptick since 2020. might be part of the larger angst people have been feeling about society during the pandemic (a trend which I personally feel has degraded the experience on here)

Brings a whole new meaning to "Singapore on the Thames" eh

What you have described is BY DEFINTION the middle income trap. Economic growth and development is not linear - the type of strategy that brought incomes up from $400 to $2000 a year are not going to …

GDP and GDP PPP both quantify production, not income and living standard metrics. While there is often a correlation between production and rising living standards, it is a lossy indicator that fails …

Yet, median income [0] and HDI [1] both at the macro level and at the prefecture level are comparable to Brazil [2][3] and lag behind both Russia [4][5] and Mexico [6][7]. There is no denying the amou…

Rozelle's group at Stanford has consulted at the prefecture level with the CCP [0]. The PRC is de facto federal with a significant amount of leeway at the prefecture (state) level. In fact, a num…

Nope. By most standards the PRC is stuck in the middle income trap. To paraphrase an earlier comment I wrote sometime back: Chinese household median income is around $4,700-4,800 in 2021, with massive…

+1 on Invisible China. Scott Rozelle's group at the FSI has been doing some good work on trying to alleviate the opportunity gap that exists in several prefectures in the PRC.

A number of rural migrant workers in China DO go to Vietnam to work[0], though this has been increasingly cracked down on by the Vietnamese government[1]. On a similar note, the Belt and Roads Initiat…

I can agree that some aspects of development may appear negative, but at least with regards to the negative aspects described in the Local Futures documentary (which btw is not something I'd trea…

My dad grew up in the region around Ladakh. His village got a single paved road in 1982 and a single electric connection in 1985. Relatives would have to walk MILES in the cold and high elevation to g…

Yep, but having worked on the Hill, American politicians on both sides of the aisle are less douchey than the equivalent MPs I've interacted with in India and the UK.

Haha thanks! To be fair, as someone who is Desi American, a lot of the incomplete reporting about India that happens in the Western newspapers is due to bad pay. The NYT pays reporters $12k a year…

Glad you added that caveat to this thread! A lot of Western commentators don't tend to realize that aspect of Indian politics, instead applying a federal American lens (though American politics i…

Kinda. A lot of Indian internet commentators tend to resort to antisemitic tropes without realizing the implications, due to a lack of awareness and a bit of cargo culting American political discourse…

The Print tends to lean more AAP or Shanta Kumar style BJP than Modi style BJP, Congress, etc. This is a reflection of politics and biases in the Delhi/Haryana/Punjab/HP/JK/La…

+1 on this. I'm surprised I've never come across this before. Their annual reviews are on point.

India is a diverse country with diversity within both the federal level and the state level. I have listed a subset of sources I and friends of mine from Indian policy backgrounds (IAS, IPS, MHA, etc…

Glad to see someone else recognizing this issue as someone from a lower middle class background. In a previous life I worked in the Policy world - Democratic state level politics in California and the…

The 1975 US Household median income was ~$13,000 (approx $65,000-70,0000 in 2019 dollars) [0][1] Chinese household median income is around $4,700-4,800 in 2021, with massive disparities between First …