Special Report, Energy & Climate
ORF America
THE NEXUS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ENERGY ...

Special Report No. 7

By Piyush Verma, Medha Prasanna, Caroline Arkalji, Erlijn Van Genuchten, and Siddharth Sharma

THE NEXUS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ENERGY SECURITY: STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR U.S.-INDIA LEADERSHIP
Economic Development
ORF America
Outlook 2026: Emerging markets will need a new ...

By Udaibir Das

Global financial institutions continue to frame the 2026 outlook for emerging markets through a familiar cyclical lens. The consensus assumes U.S. monetary easing, a softer dollar and a modest global slowdown will favor local-currency assets, credible disinflation paths and balance-sheet repair. This narrative is historically grounded and internally coherent. It is also increasingly insufficient.

Outlook 2026: Emerging markets will need a new playbook
Energy & Climate
ORF America
Grids Will Decide the Global South’s AI Future

By Medha Prasanna

Without intentional strategies to strengthen energy infrastructure, the Global South will remain largely a consumer of AI technologies.

Grids Will Decide the Global South’s AI Future
Background Paper, Economic Development
ORF America
DIGITAL PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE FUTURE OF ...

Background Paper No. 37

By Anit Mukherjee and Caroline Arkalji

DIGITAL PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL PAYMENTS: LESSONS FROM PIX AND UPI
Economic Development
ORF America
Digital Payments and Women’s Empowerment: ...

By Brian Webster, Alan Gelb, and Anit Mukherjee

Shifting the payment of social transfers from cash to direct deposit via bank or mobile money accounts can directly improve efficiency for governments and convenience for beneficiaries. It may also produce positive spillovers such as boosting financial inclusion and empowering women. But do these spillovers materialize, and under what circumstances?

Digital Payments and Women’s Empowerment: Insights from PESP in the Chittagong Hill Tracts

June 2024

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India's Role in Diversifying Global Clean Energy Supply Chains

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India's Role in Diversifying Global Clean Energy Supply Chains

Ongoing armed conflicts in Europe and the Middle East and a fractured trade relationship between the world’s two largest economies, the United States and China, mean the energy transition cannot take economic integration and its accompanying benefits for granted.

Special Report

By Raj Sawhney, Shayak Sengupta, and Gregory Wischer

Editor: Shayak Sengupta

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