Economic Development
ORF America
Systemic Sovereign Financial Risk: Re-Anchoring ...

By Udaibir Das

Drawing on the public sector balance sheet literature, the economics of sovereign self-insurance, and the Knightian distinction between risk and uncertainty, this paper argues that conventional sovereign asset-liability management is necessary but incomplete.

Systemic Sovereign Financial Risk: Re-Anchoring Sovereign Funds in the Sovereign’s Policy Mandate
Special Report
ORF America
ORF Global Quarterly: Disruption and ...

Edited Volume

By Rachel Rizzo, Clemens Chay, Kartik Bommakanti, Vasabjit Banerjee, Aleksei Zakharov, Soumya Bhowmick, Arya Roy Bardhan, Jhanvi Tripathi, and Samriddhi Vij

Editors: Sharon Stirling and Eszter Karacsony

ORF Global Quarterly: Disruption and Recalibration
Economic Development
ORF America
Why the UAE’s OPEC exit signals a deeper ...

By Udaibir Das

More moves of this kind should be expected, extending beyond energy into critical minerals, technology standards, industrial policy, and cross-border finance. The UAE’s decision is not an outlier. It is a marker — not of fragmentation, but of redefinition.

Why the UAE’s OPEC exit signals a deeper recalibration of state autonomy
Technology Policy
ORF America
A U.S.-India Partnership for the AI Age

By Dhruva Jaishankar and Ylli Bajraktari

The United States and India now have a major opportunity to cooperate more closely on AI. But they must move beyond the rhetoric of shared values to building shared infrastructure.

A U.S.-India Partnership for the AI Age
Special Report, Energy & Climate
ORF America
Greening Steel in a Fragmented World: Aligning ...

Special Report No. 10

By Piyush Verma, Caroline Arkalji, and Telmen Altanshagai

Greening Steel in a Fragmented World: Aligning Markets, Technology, and Finance

March 2023

Despite Flaws, the 2020 U.S.-Taliban Deal Should Still Be Implemented

Despite Flaws, the 2020 U.S.-Taliban Deal Should Still Be Implemented

By Sadiq Amini

Despite the deal’s deep flaws, the Biden administration should still insist that the remaining parts of the deal be implemented; namely, intra-Afghan negotiations and the termination of support for foreign terrorist groups.

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