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Ahn Chul-soo: South Korea’s Kingmaker?

A software entrepreneur and noted philanthropist Ahn Chul-soo announced he would seek the South Korean presidency in a news conference inside a Salvation Army kitchen in Seoul. Ahn is the third candidate to have declared in the race thus far and he is expected to shake up the political landscape quite a bit. He’s popular […]

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Indonesian Parliamentary Session (Image via Wikipedia)
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The Rise of the Welfare State in Asia

With ever-increasing prosperity, will the emerging economies of Asia embrace Western-style welfare states? A controversial subject even in the West, it is more so in the growing economies of Indonesia and China, where both massive populations and booming economies are coupled with debilitating social inequality, disease, and poverty. While reforms initiated thus far are small […]

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