Energy & Climate
ORF America
The India We Remember Is Not the India Powering ...

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.

The India We Remember Is Not the India Powering the Future
Energy & Climate
ORF America
AI data centres are generating their own power. ...

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.

AI data centres are generating their own power. How does that affect the wider grid?
Background Paper, Economic Development
ORF America
Overcoming the Absorption Dilemma: The Need for ...

Background Paper No. 40

By Udaibir Das and Pietro Zecca

Overcoming the Absorption Dilemma: The Need for Deployment Sustainability Analysis in an Era of Aid Contraction
Special Report
ORF America
Agentic AI and India: Implications for ...

Edited Volume

By Soumya Awasthi, Ishita Deshmukh, Sameer Patil, Kavya Wadhwa, Purushraj Patnaik, Pranoy Jainendran, Sameer Patil, Rahul Rawat, Debjyoti Chakravorty, Basu Chandola, and Tanusha Tyagi

Editor: Dhruva Jaishankar

Agentic AI and India: Implications for Security, Governance, and International Partnerships
Economic Development
ORF America
Asia beyond buffers: the second-generation ...

By Udaibir Das

Policy-makers cannot prevent every shock, but they can influence how prepared the economy is to deal with them, by reducing exposures, protecting essential functions and preserving policy room. Asia built its first generation of financial defenses after a crisis. It should build the second before the next.

Asia beyond buffers: the second-generation resilience agenda

March 2025

Navigating the Entanglements in the U.S.-China Quantum Technology Race

Navigating the Entanglements in the U.S.-China Quantum Technology Race

By Linda Nhon and Andreas Kuehn

Trump 2.0’s overall policy directions in critical and emerging technologies will likely hew to common expectations. The details, however, of what technologies the new administration will prioritise and how actions, such as tariffs and export controls for example, will affect the United States’ (US) innovation and technology leadership remains underexplored.

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