Asian Politics Data, Articles, and Research Resources

(21:09) This episode shares data-driven insights about the Politics of India. It covers a variety of studies, addressing issues like religion, property rights, public works projects, monetary policy, affirmative action and the caste system, and law enforcement. .

A collaboration between the Economic Growth Center and the South Asian Studies Council at Yale University, the series will convene economists, historians, journalists, and policymakers to apply insights from history and economics to the most pressing policy issues confronting contemporary South Asia..

Explaining the breakdown in social order that occurred at the end of the Soviet period, as well as the subsequent Tajik Civil War (1992–1997), Scarborough talks about underlying economic causes of the strife.