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Building Bridges Across the Indian Ocean: Australia-India Cooperation for...
This report by Riya Sinha examines Australia and India’s engagement across various stages of port development in the Bay of Bengal, particularly ...Enabling Role of Policies to Make Public Charging Infrastructure...
The present paper is concerned with shedding light on the financial viability of setting up public charging infrastructure in a range of ...Australia’s South Asia Connectivity and Infrastructure Engagement:...
Riya Sinha writes about the South Asia Regional Infrastructure Connectivity (SARIC) framework for the United States Studies Centre.House Prices in India – How High, and for How Long?
In this EPW article, Shishir Gupta, Nandini Agnihotri and Annie George shed light on the state and dynamics of house prices in ...Economic Growth and Human Development in India –Are States Converging?
The paper examines the issues in adapting flexible inflation targeting (FIT) for emerging markets. This framework is crucial for analysing the evolution ...How India can Reach Net Zero: A Strategy for 2025–35
This paper assesses the feasibility of India achieving its stated objective of getting to net zero carbon emissions by 2070 and outlines ...Government Size and Risk Premium
Given the rise in the government debt level in recent times, this paper aims to examine the effect of an increase in ...Emerging Markets and Developing Economies in the Global Financial Safety...
The authors argue that there is a need to extend and facilitate access to the ultimate global financial safety net layer: the ...Interlinkages Between Economic Growth and Human Development in India: A...
This study explores the relationship between economic growth and non-income components (health and education) of the Human Development Index (HDI) for 26 ...Simulating the Socio-Economy-Environment Impacts of Ecotaxes in India: An...
Pricing carbon, either directly or indirectly, provides a price incentive to producers to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, it is important ...Tax Buoyancy: Too Noisy for Signals
This paper focuses on tax buoyancy, which includes discretionary policy changes, to examine how the historical relationship of tax revenues with income ...Strategic Reflections: APF Canada Analysis of Canada’s Indo-Pacific...
This report has been launched by Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) with an aim to present varied views from APF ...Bridging the North and South: Towards Sweden-India Development Cooperation...
Constantino Xavier's essay offers a policy roadmap to enable Sweden and India to implement joint development cooperation initiatives in third countries in ...Going Green in India: Balancing Energy Security and the Energy Transition
This essay examines India’s energy security in the short and medium term and finds that development needs will drive the country’s energy ...The Essential Reform of the International Monetary System
Anoop Singh, Bernard Snoy and Michel Camdessus analyse the need to reform the international monetary system.Safeguarding Decades of Development: The International Monetary Fund’s...
The policy brief from the Task Force on Climate, Development and the IMF proposes a ‘loss and damage package’ at the IMF ...A Case for Greater US Focus on Infrastructure Development in South Asia
The United States would benefit from working with India to help address the infrastructure needs of smaller South Asian countries, writes Riya ...The Nature and Implications of Off-Budget Borrowings in India: Centre and...
Shruti Gupta and Kevin James examine the regulatory framework and institutional gaps surrounding off-budget borrowings in India. It attempts to build a ...Ensuring Sustainable Supply of Critical Minerals for a Clean, Just and...
This T20 Policy Brief calls on the G20 governments to recognise the importance of critical minerals and strengthen their supply chains.The International Monetary Fund, Climate Change and Development: A...
An assessment of the IMF-led work on climate change with a development centered approach.Historical Wind Power in Karnataka Differs from Predictive Models: A...
Marty Shwarz and Rahul Tongia examine the performance of wind power across climatology, technology, and location.Inequality in Air Pollution Mortality from Power Generation in India
Abstract India’s coal-heavy electricity system is the world’s third largest and a major emitter of air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Consequently, ...Subnational Implications from Climate and Air Pollution Policies in...
This analysis provides valuable guidance about the development of the power sector and the costs associated with different development pathways.Sustained Cost Declines in Solar PV and Battery Storage Needed to...
The results of this research describe the challenging technological and policy advances needed to achieve the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement.Political Motivation as a Key Driver for Universal Health Coverage
The paper separates motivation as a distinct factor for analysis because, in the absence of strong incentives, not every political opportunity may ...Do Mandatory Disclosures Squeeze the Lemons? The Case of Housing Markets
The questions this paper answers are: what is the impact of mandatory disclosure of housing quality on prices? Do mandatory disclosures have ...Bank Credit Risk and Macro-prudential Policies: Role of Counter-cyclical...
This paper investigates the impact of counter-cyclical capital Buffer (CCyB) as a macro-prudential policy, on bank credit risk, during uncertain times, as ...India’s Public Financial Management System: Need for Reforms and Way...
The paper looks at the key areas in which India needs Public Financial Management (PFM) reforms, building on the provisions of a ...Towards control and effectiveness: The Ministry of Defence and...
Anit Mukherjee examines a possibly pernicious effect of a civilian dominated defence ministry and highlights the importance of expertise in enhancing both ...What Drives Indian Inflation? Demand or Supply
In this paper, using data from a large emerging economy, Ashima Goyal and Abhishek Kumar identify a structural shock (inflation shock) that explains ...Jharkhand Mining Summit
Jharkhand Mining Summit hosted by PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry.Market Volatility, Monetary Policy and the Term Premium
The authors use time-varying VAR models to study the effects of option-implied measures of equity and bond market volatilities on the government ...Balancing India’s 2030 Electricity Grid Needs Management of Time...
Rahul Tongia's study presents results from the first-of-a-kind model to handle high uncertainty, which uses parametric analysis instead of stochastic analysis for ...Explaining India’s Housing Vacancy Paradox
Sahil Gandhi, Richard K Green and Shaonlee Patranabis look at the paradox of high vacancy rates and homelessness in Indian cities.The Future of Climate and Development
CSEP President and Distinguished Fellow Rakesh Mohan at the Future of Climate & Development, hosted by the Task Force on Climate, Development ...Critical Minerals for India at Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP)
CSEP Research Associate Ganesh Sivamani presented the paper co authored with Senior Fellow Rajesh Chadha, on critical minerals and green technologies at ...Current and Future Estimates of Marginal Emission Factors for Indian Power...
India’s power generation is a large source of greenhouse gas emissions. The authors quantify current and future marginal emissions factors for power ...History and National Security
Shivshankar Menon discusses history in the Indian tradition, the history that is current in India, some common current historical tropes, and why ...From Democracy Summit to Global Democratic Agenda?
This policy brief focuses on one very specific element: the question of how a meaningful participation of Asian, African, and Latin American ...Waste Management and Cleanliness in Cities: Linking Expenditure with...
Our results indicate that while SWM expenditure per capita is positive and statistically significant at 1% level, waste generation is completely insignificant, ...India’s Human Capital: The Regulatory Context for Leveraging Federalism
Anoop Singh and Kevin James and others discuss ways to improve India's human capital indicators.Regional Connectivity and India’s BIMSTEC Policy
This paper reviews how regionalism is making a comeback in the Bay of Bengal, the challenges of connectivity, and the opportunities and ...Wage Trickle Down vs. Rent Trickle Down: How does an increase in college...
The study confirms that high‐skilled workers gain greater benefits from living in cities with a rising college share, as the increase in ...Breaking down Silos to improve the health of older adults: The case for...
The leading cause of injury for older Americans is falls in the home, resulting in more deaths than any other injury, as ...Impact of temperature on electricity demand: Evidence from Delhi and...
This study measures the change in electricity demand in response to weather shocks at the household level in Delhi, and at various ...
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