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Books & Chapters
Climate Change and Public Health Governance and Challenges
This book aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the various ways in which climate change and public health are interconnected.Strengthening Multilateral Development Banks: Towards a Triple Agenda
Given the immense global challenges of the 21st century, the case for MDB reform is clear and undisputed.A Framework for a Reformed WTO Appellate Body
This essay draws from existing proposals to outline a framework for procedural and substantive reforms to the AB, suited to changing institutional ...Changing Paradigms of Urbanisation: India and Beyond
The book by Om Prakash Mathur "Changing Paradigms of Urbanisation: India and Beyond", consists of papers on urbanisation, urban regional development and ...Financing Climate Change: Mitigation and Adaptation in Developing...
This working paper attempts to quantify the scale and possible composition of the international financial assistance required to help developing countries fulfill ...Managing climate change: A strategy for India
Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Utkarsh Patel describe how India could make progress towards meeting its climate change mitigation commitments which involve achieving ...Non-performing Assets of Indian Banking: An Evolutionary Journey
This paper narrates the story of the evolutionary journey of non-performing assets (NPA) in the Indian banking sector.Democracy and Health in India| Is Health an Electoral Priority?
Health as a political priority both for voters and politicians in a democracy is investigated through a survey and pertinent questions are ...Resetting the Fiscal Architecture: Lessons for India
As we approach the aftermath of the pandemic, the challenge is to reset the pillars of the fiscal architecture and better manage ...Routledge Handbook of the International Relations of South Asia
Chapter on "Reinventing Non-Alignment in South Asia:The Foreign Policies of Nepal and the Maldives" by Nicholas Blarel and Constantino Xavier in the ...Anchoring Change: Seventy-Five Years of Grassroots Interventions That Made...
Anchoring Change attempts to answer these and several other such questions, through accounts of organizations from across India, spanning the seventy-five years ...Asia and the Changing Global Economy: Rebuilding Growth Potential
Asia and the Changing Global Economy: Rebuilding Growth Potential, authored by Anoop Singh, looks at fundamental issues from several perspectives in today’s ...The Next Stop: Natural Gas and India’s Journey to a Clean Energy...
The Next Stop, edited by Vikram Singh Mehta, features 38 global experts on a comprehensive roadmap for India’s natural gas sector.Future of coal in India: Smooth transition or bumpy road ahead?
No discussion of India's energy future can ignore coal. Across 18 chapters, drawing from leading experts in the field, this book examines ...A Confluence of Two Strategies: The Japan-India Security Partnership in...
The primary driver of Indo-Japan ties is the shared concern about the implications of China’s rise. Japan’s reframing of its security roles ...Defence Reforms: The Vajpayee years
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s coalition government was at the helm of affairs from 1998 to 2004 and significantly shaped India’s defence ...Uneasy triangle: India’s evolving relations with the United States...
The United States of America, the People’s Republic of China, and the Republic of India are the world’s three largest countries by population ...Indian Ocean region strategic outlook
The Indian Ocean Region (IOR) has long been considered a backwater to major power rivalry and global geopolitics. During the Cold War ...Indian Strategy in a Non-Strategic Age
Strategy is a much misunderstood, misused, and maligned concept. In general, it refers to how individuals and organisations set goals and attempt to achieve ...India – The Asian Research Network: Survey on America’s role...
India stands at an important juncture today. Its central government has probably its strongest political mandate since the 1980s, and arguably since ...Making Sense of Uncertain India-US Relations
What does the election of Donald Trump as President of the USA mean for India? The short answer is that no one ...India and Germany: Realising strategic convergence
India and Germany are both emerging as important international leaders in the 21st century. India has seen its economic growth rate accelerate ...It is time to get past the “single story” about Africa
India has only 29 embassies in Africa, while the continent has 54 countries — or 55 if one counts the disputed Western ...India-Africa trade and investment: A backdrop
Trade Relations There are three elements to India’s trade relations with Africa – increasing the volume of imports and exports between the ...At the crossroads: India and the future of UN peacekeeping in Africa
India’s participation in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations (UNPKO) is probably without parallel it has been one of the largest contributors of peacekeepers ...Neighbourhood first: Bilateralism trumps regionalism
The Bharatiya Janata Party manifesto, released at the crescendo of the 16th Lok Sabha elections, bore the imprimatur of its prime ministerial ...Introduction: Building Up the India-U.S. Relationship
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Barack Obama met for their first summit in September 2014 in Washington DC, they had ...Making Renewable Power Sustainable in India: Chapters and Volume Summary
The key areas that need policy effort or solutions, whatever these may be, focus on: 1) Finance: The high cost of capital ...Making Renewable Power Sustainable in India
A nuanced look at Making Renewables in India Sustainable, spanning economics, environment, grid integration, regulation, role of States, consumers, employment, and innovation. ...Renewables and the Grid
Chapter Summary: This chapter discusses renewables integration in the context of the larger electricity system, especially the interconnected grid. More than just ...Renewables and Economics
Chapter Summary: This chapter (sidebar) focuses on the economics of renewables, pointing out that more than just typical power plant variables like ...The Electricity Future and Synergy: Storage and Smart
Chapter Summary: This chapter explores the future of the grid as a Smart Grid, in particular how it can synergize with renewable ...From Energy Crisis to Energy Sufficiency?
The SAARC nations face a common energy crisis. Other than Bhutan, they are all deficient in energy. The bulk of their populations ...Defence and Military Cooperation: Mission Impossible?
Prima facie the prospect of defense and military cooperation between SAARC countries would appear to be beyond the realm of possibility given ...
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