Katharine Rankin is Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. She has contributed broadly to scholarship on market and state formation through a decolonial, area-studies orientation engaging ethnographic approaches and featuring case studies of infrastructure development, post-conflict and post-disaster governance, commercial gentrification, microfinance, and a trans-Himalayan trading entrepôt. Empirically these pursuits have transpired primarily in the country of Nepal where Rankin has long-standing linguistic and professional commitments; but also in northern Vietnam and disinvested neighborhoods in Toronto, Canada. Rankin is the author of Cultural Politics of Markets: Economic Liberalization and Social Change in Nepal (Pluto Press and University of Toronto Press 2004) and currently Principal Investigator on a major collaborative SSHRC Insight grant called Infrastructures of Democracy: State Building as Everyday Practic
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The Indian state has an enormous task ahead of it, to ‘build back better’ an economy that was not growing well before the covid pandemic. Neither was it producing enough jobs and incomes for workers and farmers. Nor was it delivering good public health and education to its citizens. The government has a financial problem: It must find money for providing public goods. Therefore, it is stepping on the accelerator to ‘privatize’ public sector enterprises (PSEs) for funds, and to also get private companies to run these businesses more efficiently.
Dubai: The expatriate business community and analysts have welcomed the historic decision by the UAE government to grant citizenship to people with exceptional talents and to their families as well.
Earlier on Saturday, the UAE announced major changes to its citizenship law, to allow for the naturalisation of foreign investors, doctors, scientists, artists and talented people and their families. The decision specified the categories of people who will be eligible for UAE citizenship, under certain conditions. In addition to granting citizenship to the families of these specific categories of people spouses and children of this specialised and skilled segment the law also allows them to retain their current citizenship, which is a major change to the previous rule that didn’t allow for dual citizenship.