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A Hindu-Muslim Friendship That Helped Shape How the World Measured Poverty

Barbara Crossette March 6, 2018

They were two young men studying at Cambridge University when they met in the wake of the bloody Partition of British India. One was a Kashmiri-born Muslim and the other a Hindu-born Bengali. But the two, Mahbub ul Haq of Pakistan and Amartya Sen from India, soon formed an intellectual bond and deep friendship. “It …

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Signals of Greater Times Buoy Developing Nations

Barbara Crossette March 13, 2013

For the developing world, the news in the 2013 United Nations Human Development Report is almost all good. (More on that “almost” later.) The title of the report, The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World, sets the tone. New players with global clout, increased South-South trade and investment, strengthening regional institutions …

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A Hindu-Muslim Friendship That Helped Shape How the World Measured Poverty

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