Every time a street vendor counts his day’s cash after a long day, every unregistered tailor busy stitching in a city bazaar, every builder who quietly pockets part of a contract off the books-these are the threads of what can only be described as Pakistan’s invisible giant. It is an economy that evades measurement, dodges […]
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Halal ink, giant ballots ready for Indonesian vote
Nearly 193 million Indonesians are eligible to vote in presidential and legislative elections on Wednesday. President Joko Widodo, the first Indonesian president from outside the Jakarta elite, is competing against Prabowo Subianto, a former special forces general from the era of authoritarian rule under military dictator Suharto. Some election facts and figures: By the numbers […]