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"This book highlights the transformative potential of democratic Church and Christian community in India. While it invokes the need to democratize Indian Christianity, it explores internal challenges - of caste, class and gender divides - confronting Indian Christianity today. A major contribution to religious studies in India, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of religion, especially in the field of church history, theology, South Asian studies, politics and sociology"--

The article argues that in any multiethnic state, one of the main indicators of a democratic society, the state of interethnic relations, internal security and political stability of the country is religious tolerance and interfaith harmony. We are talking about the existence in society of religious tolerance, interethnic harmony, mutual understanding of people of different religions, language, culture, customs, traditions and values of other religions and nationalities, as well as the legal mechanisms that regulate them

Etudes & documents ; In this paper we empirically discuss whether or not external debt affects country's governance. Indeed, indebted countries need some political governance reforms in order to send out a positive signal to international financial community and investors; and so improving business climate. However, external debt reduces their flexibility and ability to address associated costs to political governance. Our study focuses on the period 1985-2011 and spans 103 developing countries. To deal with endogeneity issue, we first lag external debt by one year and second propose two-step tobit estimator by instrumenting external debt-to-GDP ratio with real effective exchange rate. Even controlling for various conventional determinants of democratic transitions, we find that external debt constraints indebted countries to move up democracy scale but incite governments to improve investment profile and therefore improving business climate. Furthermore, Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative and International Monetary Fund (IMF) programs dampen the negative effect of debt on democratic transitions.

Etudes & documents ; In this paper we empirically discuss whether or not external debt affects country's governance. Indeed, indebted countries need some political governance reforms in order to send out a positive signal to international financial community and investors; and so improving business climate. However, external debt reduces their flexibility and ability to address associated costs to political governance. Our study focuses on the period 1985-2011 and spans 103 developing countries. To deal with endogeneity issue, we first lag external debt by one year and second propose two-step tobit estimator by instrumenting external debt-to-GDP ratio with real effective exchange rate. Even controlling for various conventional determinants of democratic transitions, we find that external debt constraints indebted countries to move up democracy scale but incite governments to improve investment profile and therefore improving business climate. Furthermore, Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative and International Monetary Fund (IMF) programs dampen the negative effect of debt on democratic transitions.