Aditya Sarkar
@adityasarkar.bsky.social
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PhD student at the Fletcher School, studying precarity in small town India. Views personal.
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Aditya Sarkar
World Peace Foundation
7 days ago
What holds a political system together, and what tears it apart? In fragile states, political finance, not just resource rents, may drive the ebb and flow of power. Our new analysis shows why Read more here from our partnership with
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Rents and Political Settlements - A Hopeless Muddle? - World Peace Foundation
Aditya Sarkar discusses whether a change in rent flows can explain the evolution of political settlements in the Horn of Africa.
https://worldpeacefoundation.org/blog/rents-and-political-settlements/
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Aditya Sarkar
The India Forum
13 days ago
Persistent comparability problems between the 2011–12 and 2022–23 consumption surveys, compounded by the World Bank’s contested adjustments, leave India’s poverty and inequality trends uncertain. Although poverty has likely fallen, the magnitude remains disputed.
www.theindiaforum.in/economy/grea...
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The Great Indian Poverty Debate
Persistent comparability problems between the 2011–12 and 2022–23 consumption surveys, compounded by the World Bank’s contested adjustments, leave India’s poverty and inequality trends uncertain. Alth...
https://www.theindiaforum.in/economy/great-indian-poverty-debate
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Very grateful to
@apsa.bsky.social
for supporting my dissertation research this year!
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about 2 months ago
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Aditya Sarkar
World Peace Foundation
4 months ago
Explore the variety of research tools from interactive timelines and searchable databases to dynamic visualisations and survey dashboards that we have engaged and supported in partnership with
@peacerep.bsky.social
to explore complex
#peace
processes with greater clarity
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PeaceTech - PeaceRep
Browse all PeaceRep data and databases, visualisations, and digital tools relating to peace and conflict resolution.
https://peacerep.org/peacetech-tools/
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Aditya Sarkar
World Peace Foundation
5 months ago
From the crooked timber of humanitarianism much good was fashioned. The humanitarian project was imperfect, but now the timber has been felled. What comes next? Read more from Executive Director Alex de Waal on the future of
#humanitarianism
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worldpeacefoundation.org/blog/liberal...
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Liberal Humanitarianism has Been Felled. What Comes Next? - World Peace Foundation
Liberal humanitarianism was flawed but life-saving. With institutions dismantled and illiberal forces rising, we must defend what remains.
https://worldpeacefoundation.org/blog/liberal_humanitarianism_has_been_felled/
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Starvation in Gaza
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
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Alex de Waal | Starvation in Gaza
Twice already during this war, the people of Gaza have pulled back from the brink of categorical famine – both times...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/may/starvation-in-gaza
7 months ago
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will pooley
9 months ago
just imagine working at microsofft and thinking “let’s spend billions, steal a load of intellectual property, and destroy the planet to make an interface to write bad essays” rather than “let’s update MS Word so users can comment on footnotes”
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Atreyee Majumder
10 months ago
This poster has my whole heart. Share it.
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Lauren Risi
11 months ago
Suggested reading:
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by Alex de Waal and
@adityasarkar.bsky.social
features insights from a recent special issue of the journal, Environment and Security. Decarbonization is necessary, and so is understanding its impact on countries whose GDP depends on fossil fuel income.
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On famine denialism, from Ukraine to Gaza, by Alex de Waal.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/eng...
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Engineers of Calamity - Boston Review
Famine denial’s past and present, from Ukraine to Gaza.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/engineers-of-calamity/
about 1 year ago
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عمو حسام
about 2 years ago
The U.N. General Assembly called for the 31st time on the United States to end its decades-long trade embargo against Cuba. The non-binding resolution was approved by 187 countries and opposed only by the United States and Israel, with Ukraine abstaining.
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U.N. votes to end US embargo on Cuba; US and Israel oppose | Reuters
The U.N. General Assembly called for the 31st time on the United States to end its decades-long trade embargo against Cuba as the communist-run island suffers its worst economic crisis in decades, wit...
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/un-votes-end-us-embargo-cuba-us-israel-oppose-2023-11-02/
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