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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?
November 28, 2025
Economic Development
ORF America
Africa’s Ubuntu economics takes the G20 stage

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.

Africa’s Ubuntu economics takes the G20 stage
November 24, 2025
Energy & Climate
ORF America
India and Mongolia Forge a New Energy Axis

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.

India and Mongolia Forge a New Energy Axis
November 17, 2025
Economic Development
ORF America
How ‘resilience’ became global finance’s mirage ...

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.

How ‘resilience’ became global finance’s mirage of strength
ORF America
March 10, 2022
Foreign Policy & Security

India should integrate into global value chains

ORF America
March 10, 2022
Foreign Policy & Security
India should integrate into global value chains

By Dhruva Jaishankar

Creating goods and services not just for India, but for the world, is critical to ensuring large-scale employment, wealth creation, and human development.

Tagged: Dhruva Jaishankar, 2022, March 2022

ORF America
March 10, 2022
Foreign Policy & Security

India and Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific

ORF America
March 10, 2022
Foreign Policy & Security
India and Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific

By Dhruva Jaishankar

Tagged: Dhruva Jaishankar, 2022, March 2022

ORF America
March 10, 2022
Foreign Policy & Security

The Ukraine war could transform India’s military preparedness

ORF America
March 10, 2022
Foreign Policy & Security
The Ukraine war could transform India’s military preparedness

By Dhruva Jaishankar

Russia on a war footing will be less capable of providing India with critical defence equipment.

Tagged: Dhruva Jaishankar, 2022, March 2022

ORF America
February 25, 2022
Technology Policy

The EU and Responsible Active Cyber Defence

ORF America
February 25, 2022
Technology Policy
The EU and Responsible Active Cyber Defence

By Andreas Kuehn & Sven Herpig

The EU must define what it understands as active cyber defence and how it relates to other cyber policy issues.

Tagged: Andreas Kuehn, 2022, February 2022

ORF America
February 24, 2022
Background Paper, Foreign Policy & Security

The Evolution and Roles of India’s National Security Council

ORF America
February 24, 2022
Background Paper, Foreign Policy & Security
The Evolution and Roles of India’s National Security Council

Background Paper No. 7

By Ammar Nainar

Tagged: Ammar Nainar, 2022, February 2022

ORF America
February 15, 2022
Foreign Policy & Security

What the Crisis in Ukraine Reveals

ORF America
February 15, 2022
Foreign Policy & Security
What the Crisis in Ukraine Reveals

by Dhruva Jaishankar

The Hindustan Times.

Tagged: Dhruva Jaishankar, 2022, February 2022

ORF America
February 12, 2022
Foreign Policy & Security

The Biden Administration's New Indo-Pacific Strategy

ORF America
February 12, 2022
Foreign Policy & Security
The Biden Administration's New Indo-Pacific Strategy

By Dhruva Jaishankar

Conversation Six

Tagged: Dhruva Jaishankar, 2022, February 2022

ORF America
January 6, 2022
Economic Development

Sustainable development: Shared problems need shared solutions

ORF America
January 6, 2022
Economic Development
Sustainable development: Shared problems need shared solutions

By Terri Chapman

ORF Expert Speak.

Tagged: Terri B Chapman, 2022, January 2022

ORF America
December 30, 2021
Energy & Climate

India Climate Update - Q4 2021

ORF America
December 30, 2021
Energy & Climate
India Climate Update - Q4 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
December 26, 2021
Foreign Policy & Security

Democracy and the US-India relationship

ORF America
December 26, 2021
Foreign Policy & Security
Democracy and the US-India relationship

By Dhruva Jaishankar

While both recognise the value of democracy and the importance of demonstrating the success of democratic governance, the two differ on their approaches to democratic promotion and coalition building

Tagged: Dhruva Jaishankar, 2021

ORF America
December 14, 2021
Technology Policy

Digital democracies and virtual frontiers: How do we safeguard democracy in the 4IR?

ORF America
December 14, 2021
Technology Policy
Digital democracies and virtual frontiers: How do we safeguard democracy in the 4IR?

By Samir Saran

Digital Frontiers

Tagged: 2021

ORF America
December 13, 2021
Technology Policy

Squeezing the Cybersecurity Lemons – A Labeling Regime for IoT Products

ORF America
December 13, 2021
Technology Policy
Squeezing the Cybersecurity Lemons – A Labeling Regime for IoT Products

by Andreas Kuehn and Vaibhav Garg

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Tagged: Andreas Kuehn, 2021

ORF America
December 12, 2021
Foreign Policy & Security

Democracy that Delivers: Unpacking India's Model of Democratic Cooperation

ORF America
December 12, 2021
Foreign Policy & Security
Democracy that Delivers: Unpacking India's Model of Democratic Cooperation

By Ambar Kumar Ghosh and Ammar Nainar

Tagged: Ammar Nainar, 2021

ORF America
December 8, 2021
Technology Policy

Squeezing the Cybersecurity Lemons – A Labeling Regime for IoT Products

ORF America
December 8, 2021
Technology Policy
Squeezing the Cybersecurity Lemons – A Labeling Regime for IoT Products

By Dr. Andreas Kuehn & Vaibhav Garg

A centralized, prescriptive approach may struggle with scalability, device diversity, and deployment complexity.

Tagged: 2021, Andreas Kuehn, Vaibhav Garg

ORF America
November 16, 2021
Foreign Policy & Security

Will the U.S. reset ties with China, Pakistan?

ORF America
November 16, 2021
Foreign Policy & Security
Will the U.S. reset ties with China, Pakistan?

By Dhruva Jaishankar

The Hindustan Times

Tagged: Dhruva Jaishankar, 2021

ORF America
November 9, 2021
Technology Policy

Secure ICT is impossible without trustworthy suppliers

ORF America
November 9, 2021
Technology Policy
Secure ICT is impossible without trustworthy suppliers

Originally published in Digital Frontiers, Observer Research Foundation

By Dr. Andreas Kuehn and Jan-Peter Kleinhans

Tagged: Andreas Kuehn, 2021

ORF America
October 26, 2021
Energy & Climate, Special Report

U.S.-India Energy Monitor, No. 1

ORF America
October 26, 2021
Energy & Climate, Special Report
U.S.-India Energy Monitor, No. 1

A quarterly snapshot of energy trends in the U.S. and India

Special Report

By Ammar Nainar

Tagged: Ammar Nainar, Energy Monitor, 2021, Terri B Chapman

ORF America
October 23, 2021
Economic Development

Building Back Better together—Potential for an India-UK partnership for a Green Transition

ORF America
October 23, 2021
Economic Development
Building Back Better together—Potential for an India-UK partnership for a Green Transition

Originally published by Observer Research Foundation

By Terri B. Chapman and Samir Saran

Tagged: Terri B Chapman, 2021

ORF America
October 21, 2021
Background Paper, Economic Development

Beyond Borders: Transnational Development Impacts

ORF America
October 21, 2021
Background Paper, Economic Development
Beyond Borders: Transnational Development Impacts

Background Paper No. 6

By Terri B Chapman

Tagged: Terri B Chapman, 2021

ORF America
October 19, 2021
Technology Policy

Closing the gap: Promises of digital progress

ORF America
October 19, 2021
Technology Policy
Closing the gap: Promises of digital progress

Originally published by Observer Research Foundation

By Dr. Andreas Kuehn

Tagged: Andreas Kuehn, 2021

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