Despite traditional North-South dynamics in climate finance, triangular cooperation offers a promising alternative, allowing emerging economies like India to leverage their own ...

Rajesh Chadha, Ganesh Sivamani and Karthik Bansal provide an overview of India’s historical, current, and proposed exploration policies, good international practices, issues ...

Renu Kohli's Discussion Note discusses three significant reasons why the observed tax buoyancy in the recovery year, FY23, must be interpreted with ...

This Discussion Note explores India’s mineral royalty rates, which are among the highest in the world, thus impacting the competitiveness of the ...

The study by Rahul Tongia focuses on ways to encourage the energy transition for developing countries where high costs of capital are ...

What is the import-export trade dynamics of mineable minerals in India, especially after the Atma-Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan? Read the new discussion note ...

Aashita Dawer's study aims at analysing Judicial efficiency for Supreme Court, high courts and subordinate courts of India. The study uses various regression ...

Comparing expenditure on Solid Waste Management (SWM) and cleanliness performance for 11 municipalities in India, Shishir Gupta and Rishita Sachdeva find out ...

Rajesh Chadha and Ishita Kapoor analyse the collection, allocation, and expenditure patterns in India’s top 12 mining states through a DMF Utilisation ...

While the expansion of mining activities may benefit the affected local communities, it may harm them if their benefits do not offset ...

The progress on several indicators since the 2014-15 survey points to the success of interventions on various fronts, although a cross-year comparison ...

The changes being proposed by the government for delicensing distribution and allowing multiple discoms in the same geographical area are unlikely to ...

India needs to undertake serious research and build a policy framework of being self-reliant in clean energy and high-tech equipment by acting ...

This discussion note argues that India needs to benchmark its fiscal architecture to 21st century international standards.

This discussion note suggests an integrated approach to addressing the retirement of older coal plants, installation of ECS, etc,.

The mining royalty rates in India are among the highest in the world. This discussion note takes a view of the various ...

Introduction While there is rich extant literature on India’s dependence on and its long-term need for natural gas and coal, there is ...

Few would dispute that change is required in the legislative and regulatory framework of the power sector in India.

The Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act of 1957 regulates the mining sector in India, including specifying the rules for the ...

COVID has unleashed a relatively unique global pandemic with economic, human, and institutional upheavals that haven’t been seen in generations. Economies are ...

I. Economic Growth and Trade Covid-19 has hit the world hard. As on May 11, 2020, there have been a total of ...

These steps can make India's mineral asset allocation process more transparent and create a competitive exploration environment.

The India Input-Output Transactions Table for 2015-16 depicts intersectoral intermediate transactions across 131 sectors of the economy as well as the final ...

India's mining sector can be a catalyst for the growth and development of the manufacturing sector and the economy as a whole.

The Indian power sector value chain can be broadly segmented into generation, transmission, and distribution sectors. At an all-India level, the total ...

Brookings India launched the Electricity and Carbon Tracker, a first-of-its-kind near real-time tracker of electricity generation by type of source as well ...

The year 2018 has brought about a new set of draft/proposed Amendments to the Electricity Act 2003 (EA2003), which are an extension ...

More energy and power sector data is available in India than ever before, especially through a combination of websites and portals. We ...

Among the growing network of trilateral discussions involving India and other countries, one that has received relatively little attention is the dialogue ...

President Donald Trump has unleashed a wave of tariffs over the past year against many of its largest trading partners including China, ...

On August 30 and 31, Nepal will host the fourth BIMSTEC Summit in Kathmandu with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other heads ...

Brookings India hosted an expert roundtable discussion with Bruce Jones, Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution ...

Notions of being prosperous and developed are changing around the world. The concepts of Gross National Happiness and United Nations’ World Happiness ...

On May 21, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Russian President Vladimir Putin for an informal summit in Sochi, where the two leaders ...

The last two years have seen a considerable widening of differences between China and India over issues such as the boundary dispute, ...

In his book “Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle over Islam is Reshaping the World”,  Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Shadi Hamid argues that ...

The concept of the Indo-Pacific has been in existence for several years now, although it has recently gained renewed traction. An understanding ...

Data is becoming more and more important for all spheres of public and private activity.  The power sector is no different, but ...

Growing Renewable Energy (RE) means a greater increase in variability of supply, a relatively newer phenomenon for grids where demand was the ...