Development Studies Articles

Report by Bakshinder Singh, Research Intern at CSPS The CSPS Internship comprises a series of virtual lectures featuring prominent thinkers, scholars, and writers to speak on pressing themes. The fifth session was hosted Dr Musab Iqbal who gave a talk to our interns...

Mission “Karamyogi”, the Modi governments first stab at public sector capacity development, was unveiled during the pandemic in September last year—a reminder that whilst the rest of us worked languidly from home, bureaucratic wheels continued to churn albeit with...

The Indonesian economy, which is the largest in Southeast Asia, has been reeling under the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic that has caused its first recession in over two decades. Examining its economic turnaround from the Asian financial crisis, the paper studies how...

Iran has strong religious and cultural ties and a long shared border with Afghanistan, Dari, the Afghan dialect of Persian, is one of Afghanistan’s two official languages and is used by intellectuals and the elite. Until 1857, Herat was part of Iran and only after...