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Exit barriers are entry barriers and in India they drive the low share of manufacturing production, from Shoumitro Chatterjee, Kala Krishna, Kalyani Padmakumar, and Yingyan Zhao nber.org/papers/w33830

For Center for the Advanced Study of India's India in Transition, I spoke to Tariq Thachil about his tenure as director through a complex time, the role of 'India Centers' in US academia, the disconnect in how India is studied in the US and why it's important to build academic bridges.

Immigrants increase innovation and economic growth [full stop]

This ⁦Christopher Clary⁩ paper is remarkable for its clarity on facts and arguments. This will be the foundational text, IMO, on which future debates about the 100-hour crisis are built stimson.org/2025/four-days…

This is excellent from Tom Carothers Carnegie Democracy for Foreign Policy: Actually, Trump Has a Coherent Vision--What seems like chaos is in fact a unified plan to reshape the United States. foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/29/tru…

Very important context for the latest GDP print

First rule: always read your Sajjid Chinoy before GDP prints.

!!! State Department leadership wants consular officers to consider “whether the lack of any online presence, or having social media accounts restricted to ‘private’ or with limited visibility, may be reflective of evasiveness and call into question the applicant’s credibility.”

"Officers can ask [visa] applicants to set their social media accounts to 'public' for vetting purposes."

Targeting Chinese Students Threatens the Bottom Line at American Universities via The Wall Street Journal wsj.com/us-news/educat…

Terms of Trade: When the personal is political hindustantimes.com/india-news/ter…

BJP-Taliban Ties and Their Implications via ⁦The Wilson Center⁩ wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/bjp-…