By Udaibir Das
Balance sheet risks have become more challenging and critical for resource-rich, low-income countries, especially in Africa.
The key to a sovereign’s resilience
Neglecting Afghanistan could have global repercussions
By Sadiq Amini
In a way, the situation in Afghanistan serves as a microcosm of the status of the wider world.
Whodunit in Cyberspace: The Rocky Road from Attribution to Accountability
Are Global Climate Partnerships Fit for Purpose?
By Shayak Sengupta and Abhinav Jindal
A close look at India's relationship to Just Energy Transition Partnerships.
Holding the Taliban to Account: Stakeholders in an Inclusive Post-Settlement Afghanistan
The collapse of the neo-liberal consensus
By Dhruva Jaishankar
Nations including the US, Japan and India are preparing for a global economy characterised by gated globalisation, plurilateral or regional blocs, and competing industrial policies
The time for Africa’s financial transformation is now
By Udaibir Das
While the digitalisation of finance advances and the potential introduction of central bank digital currency might aid finance in Africa, it is not enough.
Where did the Afghan refugees go – and where next?
Transforming Eastern India’s Electricity Sector to Meet Renewable Energy Goals
By Shayak Sengupta
Without concerted policy efforts to incorporate the eastern states into India’s renewable fold, the region risks being left behind in reaping the benefits of transition.
How the Czechs checkmated China
By Dhruva Jaishankar
Prague’s experience with Beijing also exposes the limitations and fragility of China’s global outreach
Delivering Digital G2P Payments to Urban Informal Populations
By Anit Mukherjee, Ubah Thomas Ubah, Brian Webster, Wendy Cunningham, and Georgina Marin
Using data from three countries, this paper finds that digital government-to-person (G2P) payments were effective in reaching urban informal sector beneficiaries quickly and safely during the COVID-19 crisis.
India’s Climate Engagement with the United States: Factors and Ways Forward
By Shayak Sengupta, Medha Prasanna and Peter Jarka-Sellers
The Agenda 2030 Partnership builds on nearly two decades of cooperation between the US and India on energy and climate issues.
Biden’s Signature Achievement Needs to Go Global
By Shayak Sengupta and Sagatom Saha
The Inflation Reduction Act is Washington’s boldest climate policy ever—but still woefully insufficient.
Why G20 matters to India and the world
By Dhruva Jaishankar
Economic, demographic, and commercial factors are driving India’s outreach. Advancing the Global South agenda may prove to be its enduring legacy
Digital Development: Emulating India's Digital Public Infrastructure to Reach the Sustainable Development Goals
The future of Indo-Pacific alliances – tech, not treaties
By Dhruva Jaishankar
The world is facing enormous change in the decade ahead. And one of the key ones will be that alliances will be defined less by military treaties and more by choices on critical and emerging technologies.
Diversifying Solar Supply Chains: Costs and the Case for International Coordination
Canceling Carbon: The Global Context of India’s New National Carbon Market
Bank of England exercises aim to better understand market dynamics
By Udaibir Das
The past 50 years have seen shifts in the global financial system’s behaviour. Major market crises, such as the 1997 Asian crisis and the 2008 financial crisis, have resulted in more robust financial policies focused on licensed entities.
Cash Transfers in the Context of Energy Subsidy Reform: Insights from Recent Experience
By Anit Mukherjee, Yuko Okamura, Ugo Gentilini, Defne Gencer, Mohamed Almenfi, Adea Kryeziu, Miriam Montenegro, and Nithin Umapathi
Over the past several decades, as part of the evolving understanding of energy subsidy reforms, there has been growing recognition of the potential of targeted cash transfers to support the poor and vulnerable to help governments achieve desired policy outcomes at lower fiscal cost and in a sustainable manner.