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Press Freedom and Economic Development in Bangladesh

August 3rd, 2011 · 1 Comment

 “Not surprisingly, while India continued to have famines under British rule right up to independence …they disappeared suddenly with the establishment of a multiparty democracy and a free press,” Amartya Sen, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics from India, argues in his book Democracy as a Universal Value. Mr Sen says that democracy and [...]

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