Energy & Climate
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Mongolia’s Gas Pipeline Diversification Comes ...

By Telmen Altanshagai

The implications of PS-2 for Mongolia are double-edged. The project could provide new revenues, jobs, and energy diversification, while elevating Mongolia’s role in regional energy flows. But it also risks eroding the very sovereignty and strategic autonomy that Ulaanbaatar has sought to preserve through its “Third Neighbor” policy.

Mongolia’s Gas Pipeline Diversification Comes With Risk
Foreign Policy & Security
ORF America
India’s Overseas Infrastructure Investments: ...

By Archana Kamath

While India’s overseas investments in infrastructure have been growing, including with the support of the Indian government’s foreign assistance programs, they have received far less attention, despite important projects in countries such as Bangladesh, Greece, Indonesia, Israel, Mauritius, the Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, and Vietnam.

India’s Overseas Infrastructure Investments: The Role of the Private Sector
Foreign Policy & Security
ORF America
India and South Korea: Opportunities for ...

By Dhruva Jaishankar

The newly-elected presidency of Lee Jae Myung in South Korea has created an opportunity to advance India-South Korea relations. The greatest potential for cooperation between the two countries involves aligning South Korea’s dynamic industrial capabilities with India’s own industrialization efforts.

India and South Korea: Opportunities for Industrial and Strategic Cooperation
Economic Development
ORF America
U.S. Tariff Windfall Cannot Compensate for ...

By Marta Bengoa

The current situation demands acknowledgment that trade and monetary policy operate as interconnected systems, not isolated levers that can be pulled independently. A coherent approach would acknowledge that the United States’ economic strength derives from its integration into global supply chains, not isolation from them.

U.S. Tariff Windfall Cannot Compensate for Jobs, Costs, Debt, and Inefficiencies
Economic Development
ORF America
Even before COP30, Commitments Are Falling Short

By Anit Mukherjee

In less than two months, global heads of governments will land in Belém for the formal opening of COP30. But with little time left, climate commitments are falling short of the urgency needed to address the crisis.

Even before COP30, Commitments Are Falling Short

Anit Mukherjee

How the Global South Shaped the G20 and Global Governance

How the Global South Shaped the G20 and Global Governance

By Anit Mukherjee and Caroline Arkalji

The consecutive presidencies of Indonesia, India, Brazil, and South Africa within the G20 offers a blueprint for how the Global South can continue shaping global governance at a time of geopolitical uncertainty and a rapid rebalancing of the globalization process itself.  

In the Absence of Xi and Putin, the BRICS Pivot South

In the Absence of Xi and Putin, the BRICS Pivot South

By Anit Mukherjee

The BRICS Leader’s Declaration lays out in detail the process for a revision of quotas at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, representation of the Global South in the governance of artificial intelligence and other transformative technologies that will shape the future, and increasing the accessibility and affordability of climate finance.

Getting Biofuels Right

Getting Biofuels Right

By Anit Mukherjee and Caroline Arkalji

In the run up to the COP30 climate summit in Brazil, countries are reevaluating the role of biofuels in supporting efforts to accelerate the clean energy transition, particularly in the transportation sector, which accounts for nearly one-quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions.

What Links the U.S. Elections and Bangladesh Turmoil? Jobs.

What Links the U.S. Elections and Bangladesh Turmoil? Jobs.

By Anit Mukherjee

The lack of jobs and job creation has not only sparked the recent student protests in Bangladesh but also has raised concern among voters in the United States as the 2024 presidential election nears. How can both the United States and Bangladesh tackle the shortcomings of their national job markets for incoming youth?

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