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Sunday, August 17, 2025
TopicDeveloping countries

Topic: Developing countries

Why India needs to be a model to the world on Covid vaccine delivery

If vaccine delivery mechanism can be evolved in India, other developing countries can replicate it. Without one, they can’t escape pandemic even with vaccine.

Coronavirus & the decline of US deal serious blow to the rise of developing countries

The replacement of a US-centric global economy with a China-centric one spells trouble for the trend of global development that has prevailed for the past three decades.

Covid-19 has given developing countries a great chance to care for their migrant workers

If one thing needs to change after the coronavirus crisis, it's the relationship between the state and migrant workers.

Water no longer a developing-world problem: It’s become an everyone, everywhere problem

There's no demand-supply gap, only poor allocation choices. The wealthy will have access to water, and the poor will pay more for water of questionable quality.

One Asian country after another is shutting door on waste plastic from US, UK, Australia

Wealthy countries need to figure out how to deal with scrap at home and not send it to developing countries.

Not all of the developing nations are created equal

Each country has its own challenges and development agencies should consider variations in income, health, education and development while classifying them as developed or developing.

Third World catching up with the West is a big win for economic theory

Some countries are even set to make the leap from developing to developed status, as South Korea has already done.

Only the government seems to have won the Aadhaar battle in the Supreme Court

There’s a lesson for all techno -- utopians- anything that creates centralised power might be eventually taken over by bureaucrats.

On Camera

SC’s stray dog order lit a match in Delhi. Are they a menace or companions?

The last time this matter flared up was when Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, in a very similar directive in April, called for the relocation of stray dogs in the capital.

Modi’s ‘Diwali bonanza’ for the common man—next-gen GST reforms, lower tax on daily-use items soon

Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?