By Vasabjit Banerjee
The Mecca Joint Defense Agreement faces all the classic challenges of an alliance with none of the unifying elements.
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.
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.
Background Paper No. 40
By Udaibir Das and Pietro Zecca
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
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.
By Vasabjit Banerjee
The Mecca Joint Defense Agreement faces all the classic challenges of an alliance with none of the unifying elements.
By Benjamin Tkach and Vasabjit Banerjee
We evaluate cooperative steps that both India and Taiwan have taken in the defense arena, demonstrating how mutual antagonist China, economic ties, and budding security coordination are creating an entente.
By Vasabjit Banerjee
China evidently recognises the Calcutta Port System as an economic force multiplier for India’s economic power in the region. The Indian government has recently advanced several solutions, from modernisation to expansion of the port system. Yet, more needs to be done by the Indian government and private investors to strengthen the port system to ward off Chinese influence.
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
By Benjamin Tkach and Vasabjit Banerjee
While India-Taiwan collaboration on submarine technology would represent a step change from pre-existing economic cooperation, improving domestic production capacity necessitates pursuing mutual gains wherever possible.
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