A new policy brief from the Task Force on Climate, Development and the IMF seeks to improve the RST’s design by taking ...

This Policy Brief explores how India has transformed into a positive force on the global stage, achieving domestic climate targets and spearheading ...

This policy brief synthesises insights, relating to key challenges faced in achieving UHC, from six emerging country case studies—Brazil, China, Indonesia, Mexico, ...

Rajesh Chadha and Ganesh Sivamani's study results point to policy recommendations for ensuring uninterrupted supplies of critical minerals through enhanced domestic ...

The Model Tenancy Act can improve rent control legislation and contract enforcement to bring vacant houses into the market.

India must improve collaboration with neighbours and leverage regional institutions for disaster management.

Introduction Tourism is an important metric of a country’s soft power potential, marked by an increase in movement of people and enabling ...

Introduction Despite geographical proximity and the existence of bilateral and multilateral free trade agreements (FTAs), South Asia is one of the least ...

Introduction India has long been an education hub for students from its neighbourhood.[2] Besides economic benefits, India’s capacity to attract students from ...

Marked by a history of political divisions, economic differences, and geostrategic divergences, the Indian subcontinent remains deeply divided, with exceptionally low levels ...

Inherent and structural differences mean simply breaking up CIL will not unleash meaningful competition, not unless the system is willing to bear ...

China today looms large in India’s consciousness, with implications for India’s neighbourhood and connectivity initiatives, trade policy, and incoming investment. The next ...

The South Asian neighbourhood has become a new foreign policy priority in recent years, mostly in reaction to China’s expanding footprint. In ...

The next Indian government faces a world that looks very different from the way it did five – and certainly 10 or ...

If we wish to secure the continued transformation of India, we must be prepared for the new situation and threats that we ...

Executive Summary The policy literature on democracy often overlooks a number of factors that have important implications for democracy’s future. First, it ...

Comparing Renewable Energy and Coal A number of publications proclaim Renewable Energy (RE) is cheaper than coal. A newspaper will often show ...

The visit of the Indian Prime Minister to Washington DC provides an opportunity for the US and India to set aside some ...

After years of a ‘Look East’ policy that recognised the importance of the Asia-Pacific region for Indian interests, the Indian government decided ...

It is undeniable that the nature of military force in international affairs has changed in the seven decades since India’s Independence. It ...

Notwithstanding the sizeable economic and social gains made by India over the last two decades, the pernicious, often invisible, challenge of maternal ...

In the foreign policy arena the biggest accomplishment of the Narendra Modi government has doubtless been the evolution of relations with the ...

While Mr. Modi’s foreign policy objectives are the same as his predecessor, what has changed is the implementation and operationalization of these ...

While Mr. Modi’s personal world view and its effect on India’s foreign policy is difficult to discern, India has considerable potential to ...

After the November 2014 joint U.S.-China announcement on climate change, all eyes turned towards India. What would India do? Would it sign ...

U.S.-India civil nuclear cooperation, starting with the July 18, 2005 nuclear agreement and culminating in the formal 123-agreement bill approved by the ...

The Pre-Summit Backdrop Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) have been among the most contentious economic issues in the bilateral relationship between India and ...

There was a time when India-U.S. relations were summed up in platitudes like “world’s largest democracies,” while seasoned pundits lamented that they ...

The U.S. is the second largest energy consumer in the world, and India is soon to become the third. The U.S. already ...

Over the last 20 years, we have witnessed an explosion of aspiration among the Indian youth, who are also among the biggest ...

India-U.S. civil nuclear cooperation, starting with the July 2005 nuclear agreement and culminating in the formal 123-agreement bill approved by the U.S. ...

There is broad consensus in India that the country’s single most important objective is to become the world’s third largest economy by ...