India was a colony of Great Britain until 1947 when the subcontinent was partitioned into two politically separate and independent countries: India and Pakistan. The partition resulted in a major political and economic upheaval in the subcontinent. In 1950, a planning commission was set up to...

To understand John Paul II’s vision of the social economy, it is important to put his writings in a historical perspective. This essay offers a brief survey of Catholic social thought on the topic of justice in the context of international development as reflected in several of the important...