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#286 In a Flux
Senseless Alcohol Retail Regulations, Trump2.0 Begins, and Strengthening the Indian Republic
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#285 Of Controls and Insecurities
The Export Control Week and the Mission Mode Fallacy
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#284 Of Chance, Chalice, and China
Predictions for 2025, Price Controls on Alcohol, Polarisation in the US, and China's anti-India Moves
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#283 History Makers
Taking Stock of 2024 Predictions, Honouring India's Great Sons, and American Policy Self-goals—US Steel Version.
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#282 It Ain't This Way
Stagnating Wage Growth, China's New Export Controls, and an America with Chinese Characteristics
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#281 Causes and Reasons; Effects and Impacts
The Q2 Growth Figures, A Framework for Sustainable Policy Change, and a Question on the US' policy self-goals
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#280 Do, Then Think
Of India's Chip Import Restrictions and Australia's Social Media Controls
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#279 Gradually, then Suddenly*
Russia's Underlying Economic Troubles, India's Surge in Electronics Exports, and are Milk Cooperatives Ready to Compete?
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#278 Old Ideas, New Beginnings
Direct Benefit Transfers for Women, The Glue that Keeps Democracies Going, A Last Chance to Revive Urban Governance, and Dealing with Our Hardware…
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#277 Defending the Defensible
What to expect from Trump 2.0?, Agricultural Productivity vs Agricultural Employment, and are Multilateral Trade Agreements Back on the Table?
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#276 What Goes Around Comes Around
Looking Beyond the US Presidential Election, India's Critical Minerals Policy has a Starting Problem, and Three Factors that Explain China's Economic…
#275 The Past Lies Ahead of Us
Catching up on recent developments: India-Canada, China's Stimulus, Fertility Decline Debate, and the Imperative for India-Pakistan Environmental…
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[Special Edition] Frameworks to Understand Public Policy
A compilation of frameworks that have featured in this thought-letter
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#274 Timing is Everything
China's Impossible Trinity, Imports Don't Reduce GDP, and an Escalation in Technopolitik
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