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January 12, 2026
Economic Development
ORF America
Outlook 2026: Emerging markets will need a new ...

By Udaibir Das

Global financial institutions continue to frame the 2026 outlook for emerging markets through a familiar cyclical lens. The consensus assumes U.S. monetary easing, a softer dollar and a modest global slowdown will favor local-currency assets, credible disinflation paths and balance-sheet repair. This narrative is historically grounded and internally coherent. It is also increasingly insufficient.

Outlook 2026: Emerging markets will need a new playbook
January 8, 2026
Energy & Climate
ORF America
Grids Will Decide the Global South’s AI Future

By Medha Prasanna

Without intentional strategies to strengthen energy infrastructure, the Global South will remain largely a consumer of AI technologies.

Grids Will Decide the Global South’s AI Future
January 2, 2026
Background Paper
ORF America
DIGITAL PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE FUTURE OF ...

Background Paper No. 37

By Anit Mukherjee and Caroline Arkalji

DIGITAL PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL PAYMENTS: LESSONS FROM PIX AND UPI
December 19, 2025
Economic Development
ORF America
Digital Payments and Women’s Empowerment: ...

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?

Digital Payments and Women’s Empowerment: Insights from PESP in the Chittagong Hill Tracts
December 3, 2025
Economic Development
ORF America
Trevor Manuel report: Africa’s post-G20 Bretton ...

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.

Trevor Manuel report: Africa’s post-G20 Bretton Woods moment?
ORF America
June 30, 2021
Energy & Climate

India Climate Update - Q2 2021

ORF America
June 30, 2021
Energy & Climate
India Climate Update - Q2 2021

India Climate Update is produced by Observer Research Foundation America (ORF America), Observer Research Foundation (ORF) and facilitated and distributed by ClimateWorks Foundation.

ORF America
June 16, 2021
Technology Policy

The Promise and Perils of AI Partnerships

ORF America
June 16, 2021
Technology Policy
The Promise and Perils of AI Partnerships

Originally published in The Hindustan Times.

By Dhruva Jaishankar

Tagged: Dhruva Jaishankar, 2021

ORF America
May 31, 2021
Technology Policy

Understanding the UN Cyber Norms Processes as Conflict Management Tools

ORF America
May 31, 2021
Technology Policy
Understanding the UN Cyber Norms Processes as Conflict Management Tools

By Abagail Lawson

The CyFy Journal 2021

Tagged: Abagail Lawson, 2021

ORF America
May 19, 2021
Foreign Policy & Security

How China plays on inter-race ties in the US

ORF America
May 19, 2021
Foreign Policy & Security
How China plays on inter-race ties in the US

Originally published in The Hindustan Times.

By Dhruva Jaishankar

Tagged: Dhruva Jaishankar, 2021

ORF America
April 27, 2021
Foreign Policy & Security

India can leverage economic partnership with US if it addresses domestic bottlenecks

ORF America
April 27, 2021
Foreign Policy & Security
India can leverage economic partnership with US if it addresses domestic bottlenecks

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

Tagged: Dhruva Jaishankar, 2021

ORF America
April 16, 2021
Technology Policy

Preserving fundamental rights while moderating online content

ORF America
April 16, 2021
Technology Policy
Preserving fundamental rights while moderating online content

Originally published as part of the series Raisina Edit 2021.

By Abagail Lawson

Tagged: Abagail Lawson, 2021

ORF America
April 14, 2021
Foreign Policy & Security

How The Quad Can Match The Hype

ORF America
April 14, 2021
Foreign Policy & Security
How The Quad Can Match The Hype

Originally published in Foreign Affairs

By Dhruva Jaishankar and Tanvi Madan

Tagged: Dhruva Jaishankar, 2021

ORF America
April 14, 2021
Technology Policy

Indo-Pacific 5G survey: Connections and conflict

ORF America
April 14, 2021
Technology Policy
Indo-Pacific 5G survey: Connections and conflict

Originally published in Observer Research Foundation.

By Nikhila Natarajan, Trisha Ray and Michael Depp.

Tagged: Nikhila Natarajan, Michael Depp, 2021

ORF America
April 12, 2021
Foreign Policy & Security

Exploring India’s Economic Diplomacy with the U.S.

ORF America
April 12, 2021
Foreign Policy & Security
Exploring India’s Economic Diplomacy with the U.S.

Originally published in A 2030 Vision for India’s Economic Diplomacy, GP-ORF Series, 2021

By Dhruva Jaishankar

Tagged: Dhruva Jaishankar, 2021

ORF America
April 1, 2021
Technology Policy

Defending Forward: U.S. Cyber Strategy and Its Implications for Cybersecurity in Asia

ORF America
April 1, 2021
Technology Policy
Defending Forward: U.S. Cyber Strategy and Its Implications for Cybersecurity in Asia

Event summary of an ORF America-RSIS cyber strategy seminar.

By Dr. Andreas Kuehn

Tagged: Andreas Kuehn, 2021

ORF America
March 31, 2021
Technology Policy

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

ORF America
March 31, 2021
Technology Policy
Smart Cities as Large Technological Systems: Collective Action Problems as Organizational Barriers to Urban Digital Transformation

By Dr. Andreas Kuehn, Jared Mondschein, and Aaron Clark-Ginsberg
Originally published in Sustainable Cities and Society, Volume 67

Tagged: Andreas Kuehn, 2021

ORF America
March 31, 2021
Energy & Climate

India Climate Update - Q1 2021

ORF America
March 31, 2021
Energy & Climate
India Climate Update - Q1 2021

India Climate Update is produced by Observer Research Foundation America (ORF America), Observer Research Foundation (ORF) and facilitated and distributed by ClimateWorks Foundation.

ORF America
March 24, 2021
Foreign Policy & Security

Contrasting Takeaways from the India-China Boundary Crisis

ORF America
March 24, 2021
Foreign Policy & Security
Contrasting Takeaways from the India-China Boundary Crisis

Originally published in Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy’s China-India Brief

By Dhruva Jaishankar

Tagged: Dhruva Jaishankar, 2021

ORF America
March 17, 2021
Foreign Policy & Security

Locating Quad in geopolitical history

ORF America
March 17, 2021
Foreign Policy & Security
Locating Quad in geopolitical history

Originally published in The Hindustan Times.

By Dhruva Jaishankar

Tagged: Dhruva Jaishankar, 2021

ORF America
March 17, 2021
Background Paper, Technology Policy

Moderating Online Content in the United States

ORF America
March 17, 2021
Background Paper, Technology Policy
Moderating Online Content in the United States

Background Paper No. 3

By Abagail Lawson

Tagged: Abagail Lawson, 2021

ORF America
March 17, 2021
Foreign Policy & Security

Locating Quad in geopolitical history

ORF America
March 17, 2021
Foreign Policy & Security
Locating Quad in geopolitical history

By Dhruva Jaishankar

Those who contend that Quad is simply a talk shop have not been paying sufficient attention to its accompanying activities.

Tagged: Dhruva Jaishankar, 2021

ORF America
March 10, 2021
Technology Policy

ORF America experts comment on U.N. cyber working group draft report

ORF America
March 10, 2021
Technology Policy
ORF America experts comment on U.N. cyber working group draft report

Originally published in the U.N. Open-ended Working Group on ICTs “zero draft” report, March 2021.

By Abagail Lawson, Anneleen Roggeman, Michael Depp, and Bruce McConnell

Tagged: Bruce McConnell, Abagail Lawson, Anneleen Roggeman, Michael Depp, 2021

ORF America
March 5, 2021
Foreign Policy & Security

For India, Miles to Go to Reengage Southeast Asia

ORF America
March 5, 2021
Foreign Policy & Security
For India, Miles to Go to Reengage Southeast Asia

Originally published in Fulcrum.

By Dhruva Jaishankar

Tagged: Dhruva Jaishankar, 2021

ORF America
February 22, 2021
Background Paper, Technology Policy

Rethinking the Artificial Intelligence Race

ORF America
February 22, 2021
Background Paper, Technology Policy
Rethinking the Artificial Intelligence Race

Background Paper No. 2

By Michael Depp

Tagged: Michael Depp, 2021

ORF America
February 22, 2021
Foreign Policy & Security

Cooperation on Global Health—the View from Europe

ORF America
February 22, 2021
Foreign Policy & Security
Cooperation on Global Health—the View from Europe

Part of the series, “Agenda 2021: A Blueprint for U.S.-Europe-India Cooperation”.

By Tara Varma

Tagged: 2021, India Trilateral Forum

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