By Udaibir Das
Absa and OMFIF have given Africa a decade of disciplined comparison. The next task is to make the consequences of reform equally visible. A country should be able to name an investment that happened because its market improved. Success is not more capital entering markets. It is more productive investment, financed without greater fragility. That is financial sovereignty on the ground.
By Piyush Verma
Energy for Billions: India’s Turnaround and the World’s Future explores the energy choices that can help realize the ambition of Viksit Bharat — a developed India — and the lessons other economies might draw from India’s achievements and unfinished work.
By Piyush Verma
The grid is more than a machine for moving electrons. It is a shared system of costs, responsibilities and reliability. As AI campuses bring their own power, the question is not whether they are on or off the grid, but what they owe it when they still depend on it.
Background Paper No. 40
By Udaibir Das and Pietro Zecca
By Dhruva Jaishankar
As the Ukraine war enters its second year, US efforts mark a good return on investment from the point of view of national security. But over the next year, further risks abound.
By Ammar Nainar
Drawing from a deep pool of military expertise, New Delhi is expanding its foreign affairs capacity.
The focus of this issue of the U.S.-India Energy Monitor is hydrogen in the United States and India.
Special Report
By Shayak Sengupta, Medha Prasanna, and Peter Jarka-Sellers
By Anit Mukherjee, Alan Gelb, and Brian Webster
This study considers the experience of the mothers with the shift to mobile money, and to the change in payments service provider that took place in 2019, through a survey of recipients and a control group.
By Sadiq Amini
If China’s Afghanistan policy is anything to go by, it is clear that it is not yet ready to wear the title of regional power, much less global power.
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