The forthcoming State visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh presents an opportunity for the Prime Minister to take the leadership on issues where the United States and India have common interests but also differences in approaches. Professor Jagdish Bhagwati, whose writings in the mid-1960s --with Professor Padma Desai, he wrote the celebrated book, India: Planning for Industrialization which ...

Her warning against telling the depressive "to pull himself together" or "humouri0^ the paranoid is still necessary in some quarters, although many points mention should already be known to an experienced parish priest. In obsessive illness aI\ reactive depression, the minister can play a most useful part in giving a Pafie{? hearing, comfort and re-assurance. "Anxiety-prone" seems a most timely...

On this, our 20th anniversary, we pay tribute to the women and men who made the ECC's foundation possible. They included the Hon. E.G. Whitlam QC, then Prime Minister of Australia; the Hon. J.M. Fraser, then Leader of the Opposition; the Hon. S.G. Mauger, then State Minister for Youth, Ethnic and Community Affairs, representing the Premier of NSW; the Hon. N. Wran QC, then Leader of the Opposit...

This paper seeks to establish the determinants of turnover in finance ministers. Based on an original worldwide data set, political and economic factors are considered for 58 countries. While the same political factors affect Minister of Finance turnover in both advanced and developing economies, the economic variables that matter differ between the sub-samples. Finance minister turnover is hig...