Originally published in The Hindu.
By Dhruva Jaishankar
By Brian Webster, Alan Gelb, and Anit Mukherjee
Shifting the payment of social transfers from cash to direct deposit via bank or mobile money accounts can directly improve efficiency for governments and convenience for beneficiaries. It may also produce positive spillovers such as boosting financial inclusion and empowering women. But do these spillovers materialize, and under what circumstances?
By Udaibir Das
The Trevor Manuel G20 Africa Expert Panel Report reframes Africa’s constraints as a single system of mispricing, debt compression and governance asymmetry. Its proposals for refinancing, collective bargaining and International Monetary Fund quota reform mark the first coordinated attempt to shift power within the international financial architecture.
By Udaibir Das
Ubuntu economics does not invoke moral claims. It advances a structural argument: Africa’s demographic momentum, mineral endowments and ecological assets are central to global prosperity, and instability in the region imposes system-wide costs. The reform frameworks are now primarily in place. The question is whether the political and institutional conditions of 2026 permit their implementation.
By Piyush Verma and Telmen Altanshagai
Mongolia is not just a customer or supplier—but a co-partner in building new regional supply-chains, new corridors and new resource-alliances. It speaks to a future where India is not simply plugged into global energy markets, but co-creating them.
By Udaibir Das
While stability prevails in institutional titles, resilience prevails in policy content. This shift influences the oversight and allocation of approximately $470tn in global financial assets. This has structural implications and affects public accountability.
Originally published by Observer Research Foundation
By Harsh V Pant, Prithvi Iyer, Nivedita Kapoor, Aashi Tirkey and Kartik Bommakanti
Originally published by Carnegie Council
Dhruva Jaishankar in conversation with Nikolas Gvosdev and Tatiana Serafin
By Dhruva Jaishankar
India’s economic engagement with the US can be assessed along five dimensions - trade, migration, capital flows, technology, and standards and regulations
Originally published in A 2030 Vision for India’s Economic Diplomacy, GP-ORF Series, 2021
By Dhruva Jaishankar
Originally published in Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy’s China-India Brief
By Dhruva Jaishankar
By Dhruva Jaishankar
Those who contend that Quad is simply a talk shop have not been paying sufficient attention to its accompanying activities.
Part of the series, “Agenda 2021: A Blueprint for U.S.-Europe-India Cooperation”.
By Oommen C. Kurian
Part of the series, “Agenda 2021: A Blueprint for U.S.-Europe-India Cooperation”.
By Darshana M. Baruah
Part of a the series, “Agenda 2021: A Blueprint for U.S.-Europe-India Cooperation”.
By Frédéric Grare
Part of the series, “Agenda 2021: A Blueprint for U.S.-Europe-India Cooperation”.
By Nilanthi Samaranayake
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