By Udaibir Das
China must build on its institutional progress and the policy suggestions noted in the 2025 FSSA while adapting to a more fragmented global financial landscape. The shift from insulation, as pointed out by the IMF in 2010, as well as the shift to sensible integration, as outlined by the IMF in 2025, stays unfinished.
Background Paper No. 32
By Abhisri Nath & Jeffrey D. Bean
By Udaibir Das
As concessional finance declines, vulnerabilities mount and aid priorities shift, vulnerable low-income countries must increasingly rely on domestic sources of funding. Efficient capital markets are not a luxury – they are foundational infrastructure for economic growth.
By Linda Nhon and Andreas Kuehn
Trump 2.0’s overall policy directions in critical and emerging technologies will likely hew to common expectations. The details, however, of what technologies the new administration will prioritise and how actions, such as tariffs and export controls for example, will affect the United States’ (US) innovation and technology leadership remains underexplored.
By Dhruva Jaishankar
While both recognise the value of democracy and the importance of demonstrating the success of democratic governance, the two differ on their approaches to democratic promotion and coalition building
By Dr. Andreas Kuehn & Vaibhav Garg
A centralized, prescriptive approach may struggle with scalability, device diversity, and deployment complexity.
Originally published in Digital Frontiers, Observer Research Foundation
By Dr. Andreas Kuehn and Jan-Peter Kleinhans
Originally published by Council on Foreign Relations
Dhruva Jaishankar in conversation with Irina Faskianos
Dhruva Jaishnakar on how four geopolitical contests are coming into clearer focus. First published in The Hindustan Times.
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