Energy & Climate
ORF America
How the U.S. Midterms Affect Global Energy Deals

By Piyush Verma and Medha Prasanna

Democrats will now chair relevant committees, set the agenda, and hold the power of the purse, but will still confront the prospect of a presidential veto. This has important implications for U.S. energy policy.

How the U.S. Midterms Affect Global Energy Deals
ORF Global Quarterly V1
ORF America
Building the AI Bridge from Classrooms to the ...

By Arpan Tulsya

Building the AI Bridge from Classrooms to the Labour Market
ORF Global Quarterly V1
ORF America
Governing the Southern Urban Century

By Dhaval Desai

Urbanisation in Asia and Africa will intensify pressure on land and infrastructure amidst worsening climate hazards and the growing need to curb carbon emissions. The defining innovation of this urban century will therefore be institutional: building the authority, fiscal capacity, and governing systems that cities need to adapt before unsustainable urban form and inequality become entrenched.

Governing the Southern Urban Century
Technology Policy
ORF America
Rethinking High-Skill Labor Mobility Between ...

By Soumya Bhowmick

Countries that invest in portable, industry-relevant skills will be better placed to build domestic capabilities and to engage global labor markets on more equal terms, whichever way the politics of migration turns.

Rethinking High-Skill Labor Mobility Between the United States and India
ORF Global Quarterly V1, Economic Development
ORF America
Framing an Effective Policy Response to ...

By Caroline Arkalji and Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury

Framing an Effective Policy Response to South–South Migration

Trump’s Reversal on AI Diffusion Controls Raises New Questions

Trump’s Reversal on AI Diffusion Controls Raises New Questions

By Jeffrey D. Bean

All in all, the United States’ oscillating policy on AI diffusion reflects an ongoing struggle in how best to simultaneously retain U.S. leadership in semiconductors and advance compute for AI at both a market level and in national defense applications, while blocking adversaries’ access to advanced AI chips and the capability to manufacture them.

What India Can Learn From Brazil’s Technical Education System

What India Can Learn From Brazil’s Technical Education System

By Caroline Arkalji

While India is globally recognized for its highly skilled engineering talent, it lags behind its peers in terms of a large, technically trained labor force needed to attract manufacturing investment at scale. To compete, India must align its technical education more closely with industry needs and emphasize skills critical to modern manufacturing.

In Dealing with India and Pakistan, the U.S. Should Not Lose Sight of China

In Dealing with India and Pakistan, the U.S. Should Not Lose Sight of China

By Lindsey Ford

Trump’s eagerness to claim credit for defusing the India-Pakistan crisis, and his follow-on offer of facilitating broader talks between the two sides, kicked off a renewed debate about the bounds of Washington’s ability to play peacemaker in South Asia.

UK, India Could Be Relative Beneficiaries of Trump’s Tariff War

UK, India Could Be Relative Beneficiaries of Trump’s Tariff War

By Dhruva Jaishankar

Trump’s April 2 announcement has already roiled financial markets, and the global economy will continue to be adversely affected both by the implementation of tariffs and by uncertainty as negotiations proceed. But while there will be no immediate winners, some parties appear relatively better off.

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