Special Report
ORF America
ORF Global Quarterly: Navigating Megatrends For ...

Edited Volume

By Dhruva Jaishankar, Anit Mukherjee, Anirban Sarma, Mannat Jaspal, Nilanjan Ghosh, and Sunaina Kumar

Editors: Sharon Stirling and Eszter Karacsony

ORF Global Quarterly: Navigating Megatrends For 2026
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

March 2024

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