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Unintended Consequences of Switching to Presidential System from Current Parliamentary System – India

In the current democratic setup, there are two possible types of governing styles – presidential – having a directly-elected President or a parliamentary – having parliament with the ruling party (alone or in  coalition) which internally elects a leader who in turn takes over as the prime minister. Since this indirectly-elected prime minster draws power […]

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Unintended Consequences of Push for Generic Medicines – USA

Generic Drugs In the developed world as the population rapidly ages and the number of ailments requiring mediation explodes, there has been an understandable push towards generic medications as a way to control costs.  In this blog we examine the unintended consequences of this push  towards generics in U.S.

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Unintended Consequences of New Focus on Basic Education Fundings Versus Higher Education – India

There are there strong focus today in India to fund and support Basic Education in contrast High Education, which has been focus for a long time. Here we look at unintended consequences of this new focus on basic education.

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Unintended Consequences of Proposed Land Reforms in Pakistan: Pakistan

Unintended Consequences of Proposed Land Reforms in Pakistan Background Pakistan was partitioned from British India at the time of independence in August 1947. Since, the major supporter of Muslim League – led by M. A. Jinnah were feudal classes and landlords and that subsequently majority of Politicians and Army leadership has come from landed classes, […]

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