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In spite his country’s enviable 7.5
percent GDP growth last year, India’s top economic official isn’t
content: "Given our own standards and expectations, of being
able to grow faster and eradicate poverty and transform ourselves
into a developed economy, we could probably do a little bit better,”
Finance Minister Arun
Jaitley said in an address delivered at Asia Society
in New York on Monday. Through massive infrastructure investment and
a manufacturing-focused Make
in India program, Jaitley says, India will sustain its
growth and create millions of jobs.
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Since the outbreak of the Arab
Spring in 2011, security forces have broken down across the Middle
East, enabling widespread looting, trafficking, and destruction of
precious antiquities by extremist groups. Last week, the #CultureUnderThreat Task Force released a report detailing measures that different
international stakeholders can take to address the crisis. “Terrorist
organizations destroy cultural and religious sites not simply to
intimidate the region’s diverse populations," the report noted.
"They seek to erase the collective memory and very fabric of
coexistence in the areas under their control.”
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Upon its establishment, there was
concern from some countries that the Beijing-backed Asian
Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) would work at cross-purposes
with its more established cousin, the World Bank. But at an Asia
Society event in Washington, D.C. on April 13, AIIB President Jin Liqun
said there’s "vast room for cooperation” between the two
entities. Jin also discussed his affection for the Bretton Woods
institutions, his rules on lending, and why he loves Shakespeare.
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