Special Report, Energy & Climate
ORF America
Recasting EU-Global South Energy Cooperation: ...

Special Report No. 11

By Piyush Verma, Medha Prasanna, and Sarah Salah

Recasting EU-Global South Energy Cooperation: Mutually Beneficial Clean Trade and Investment Partnerships
Economic Development
ORF America
Who is the governor?

By Udaibir Das

If the governor is the last port of call, choosing one is not a staffing decision. The question is no longer who is senior or who is loyal, but who can fight a fire, who can say no and whose word the market will trust at three in the morning. Independence can be hollowed without being repealed. The clause reads perfectly while the substance is gone.

Who is the governor?
Background Paper, Technology Policy, Energy & Climate, Foreign Policy & Security
ORF America
Securing Critical Minerals at Scale: ...

Background Paper No. 38

By Jeffrey D. Bean and Dhruva Jaishankar

Securing Critical Minerals at Scale: Multilateral Solutions for Energy, Defense, and Semiconductor Supply Chains
Economic Development
ORF America
Systemic Sovereign Financial Risk: Re-Anchoring ...

By Udaibir Das

Drawing on the public sector balance sheet literature, the economics of sovereign self-insurance, and the Knightian distinction between risk and uncertainty, this paper argues that conventional sovereign asset-liability management is necessary but incomplete.

Systemic Sovereign Financial Risk: Re-Anchoring Sovereign Funds in the Sovereign’s Policy Mandate
Special Report
ORF America
ORF Global Quarterly: Disruption and ...

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

ORF Global Quarterly: Disruption and Recalibration

Smart Cities as Large Technological Systems: Collective Action Problems as Organizational Barriers to Urban Digital Transformation

Smart Cities as Large Technological Systems: Collective Action Problems as Organizational Barriers to Urban Digital Transformation

By Andreas Kuehn

In a race to develop ‘smart cities’, policymakers in metropolitan regions across the world are rapidly deploying IoT devices, sensors, and emerging ICTs, including AI and facial recognition to solve various urban governance challenges, including the need to increase efficiencies, and empower citizens.

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