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Bangladesh's public life in 2006 was dominated by furious jockeying for political advantage in the face of upcoming elections slated for January 2007. As the year unfolded, the "politics of the street" increasingly supplanted the country's fragile democratic institutions. By year's end, political tumult posed a serious threat to the future of Bangladeshi democracy.

Putin's Russia is on its way to become un-democratic. Freedoms are curtailed & opposers harassed or murdered. Putin prohibits the export of oil & gas or the import of agrarian products to or from countries whose politics he dislikes. However, the threats from Russia have brought West- & East Europeans closer together. Even though, Europeans are showing more unity, they disagree based on geographical & historical reasons. Adapted from the source document.

This paper investigates the problem of sustaining economic growth, viewed from the perspective of how growth is affected by government policy choices as well as by the nature of government. Special attention is given to the role of rent seeking in limiting growth. Three types of economic growth are identified from the standpoint of the sources of growth, and each type is identified with an element of the aggregate production function. While any of the three types may persist for a time under the right circumstances, it is argued that only one of these can be permanently sustained. Sector-specific interventionist policies that speed up either of the other two types of growth will slow down the type of growth that can be permanently sustained and are therefore likely to lead to a period of slow growth or stagnation following a period of rapid growth. Finally, it is argued that building strong democratic institutions is the best and most basic way to guarantee the type of growth that can be sustained permanently.