Foreign Policy & Security
ORF America
Pacific Polarity: Dhruva Jaishankar on India's ...

Dhruva Jaishankar spoke to Jersey Lee on the Pacific Polarity podcast on India's re-alignment.

Pacific Polarity: Dhruva Jaishankar on India's Re-alignment
Economic Development
ORF America
Domestic Debt Restructuring, Central Bank, and ...

By Udaibir S. Das and David Grigorian

Domestic debt restructuring (DDR) is constrained optimization: success requires not only reducing debt service but preserving the monetary and financial system capable of supporting economic recovery.

Domestic Debt Restructuring, Central Bank, and Monetary Policy in EMDEs: Lessons from Recent Country Cases
Economic Development
ORF America
Africa’s next market decade: from access to ...

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.

Africa’s next market decade: from access to absorption
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?

US Engagement

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Securing Critical Minerals at Scale: Multilateral Solutions for Energy, Defense, and Semiconductor Supply Chains

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Securing Critical Minerals at Scale: Multilateral Solutions for Energy, Defense, and Semiconductor Supply Chains

Background Paper No. 38

By Jeffrey D. Bean and Dhruva Jaishankar

Transatlantic Rifts: An Indian Perspective

Transatlantic Rifts: An Indian Perspective

By Dhruva Jaishankar

A strong transatlantic bond that for almost eight decades had evolved into a highly integrated defense and economic system among the world’s leading industrial economies – institutionalized under the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and G7 – now faces new stresses.

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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