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About Balihar Sanghera

Dr Balihar Sanghera is a lecturer in sociology and director of studies for social sciences at Britain’s University of Kent

Articles by Balihar Sanghera

Friday 27th August

Wanted: Economic Equality to Mend Kyrgyzstan

Balihar Sanghera, 27 August 2010
Media reports of disturbances in Kyrgyzstan’s two main cities Bishkek and Osh focused on human rights and ethnicity. However, Balihar Sanghera suggests that the root cause lies in economic inequality.

Why are Kyrgyzstan’s slum dwellers so angry?

Balihar Sanghera, 15 June 2010
If you want to understand what has motivated the uprising of Kyrgyzstan’s poor, you need look no further than the package of neo-liberal economic reforms imposed on the country by the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and World Trade Organisation, comments Balihar Sanghera
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