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Over the last three and a half decades or so, one of the most striking phenomena has been the emergence of the medical industry as the second largest industry in the world, after, of course, arms.

This volume is the outcome of a regional conference, called the Second SAARC Business Conclave that brought together a numberof key players from the private sector, policy makers, and academics who expressed hope that if the reform processes are in place, South Asia has the potential to achieve and sustain higher growth…

If nation states in their very creation are majoritarian in their thrust besides being the repositories of (often unbridled power) how havecertain institutions and instruments of minority rights protection proved effective in Europe but remained singularly undeveloped in South Asia?While this question posed succinctly in the foreword to this anthology remains unanswered in all its complexity, the work is a substantive and thorough exploration of ‘minority’, a concept that is both rich and diverse…

2006 had been a fraught year for Bangladesh. Differences between the two major political parties, the Awami League (AL) and theBangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) that go well beyond democratic discourse has been a constant in Bangladesh for over thirty years. What now lent a special edge was the determination of the BNP…

Nepal’s crises—political, economic, social, cultural—seem to be without end, and nowhere is the sense of despair more acutethan among Nepal’s thinking elite. It should therefore be a matter of some considerable interest to all Nepal watchers that this book, written by one with sound businessman-economist credentials…

China became the third largest economy in the world after the United States and Japan with an estimated $4.8 trillion in gross domesticproduct in 2009. With near nine per cent growth rate projected in the financial meltdown year of 2009, China still leads the world in growth rates, although it would need several decades to actually…