A Key Meeting Between Penang Institute and World Bank
by
Alexander Fernandez
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Penang: Once Cosmopolitan, Always Cosmopolitan
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URBAN CENTRES, by their very nature of having concentrated populations, tend also to place people from different backgrounds in close proximity to each other. T...
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Of Urban Parochialism And Rural Cosmopolitanism
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The thing is, the line between urban and rural is no longer as clear as before, and therefore the association between urbanity and cosmopolitanism—a tie that has been shaky from the start in any case—becomes ever more tenuous.
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