Are the Green Shoots of Governance Seen Since 2014 Wilting Under Increasing Fragility?
Under the BJP government since 2014, India has seen a deterioration of freedom of speech and expression, and an increased schism between different groups. Due to this, the improvement in governance has not really paid off.Â
Students and activists protest against violence in JNU campus at Gateway of India. Photo: PTI
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The sustainability of growth, in the long run, depends not only on sound macroeconomic policies but also on good governance and low fragility.
Traditional macro-prudential policies alone cannot sustain high rates of growth, because the risk to key drivers, such as investment and productivity, can emanate from corruption, political instability and a host of other noneconomic factors. Hence, foreign investors not only assess the countryâs economic policies and regulatory regime but also its governance and fragility.
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An index measuring country stability finds the U.S. dropping
The Fragile States Index shows a worrying trend and it hasn’t yet accounted for the events of 2020 and 2021.
Published
18 Jan 2021, 17:08 GMT
January 6 2021: Trump supporters storm the Capitol building, in culmination of unrest in the wake of the presidential election. The events of this day will likely cause the social and political cohesion score to drop for 2021.
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The insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 blindsided many in the United States and abroad. But it may not have surprised close readers of the Fragile States Index. Produced annually by the nonprofit organisation Fund for Peace, the index assesses pressures on individual countries that potentially undermine their stability.