This blog has been adopted from Renu Kohli “Climate Shocks, Food Supply, and Prices: Do We Need to Rethink Macroeconomic Policies?” CSEP Working paper, October 3, 2025

This blog by Anindita Sinh and Sabine Karer examines the drivers behind the transformation within the relationship from hydrocarbons to critical minerals, Russia’s domestic policy ecosystem for critical minerals, a history of India and Russia’s energy cooperation, followed by the opportunities to further this collaboration.

Priyanka Tomar and Neethi Rao outline priorities on what India can both champion on the global stage at COP30 and pursue through domestic action, ensuring that international commitments and healthier lives at home.

This blog is based on a study by Janak Raj and Rakesh Mohan titled, 'Climate Finance Needs of Nine G20 EMEs: Well Within Reach'

This blog has been authored by Renu Kohli and Kritima Bhapta and offers research highlights on India’s private investment paradox.

This blog is based on the study by Janak Raj and Rakesh Mohan, ‘An Assessment of Climate Finance – Nine G20 Emerging Economies’ it examines the climate finance requirements of nine EMEs from 2022 to 2030.

In this blog Abhinand Siddharth talks about how celective sanctions on India expose the growing weaponisation of trade law in global energy politics.

This blog by Neeraja Kulkarni offers a survey of the past three India-Africa Forum Summits while contextualising them within the broader scope of India-Africa relations discourse.

India's digital ecosystem holds immense promise, but fragmented governance may impede progress. Deepak Maheshwari elaborates in this blog.

This blog by Anindita Sinh examines how India’s longstanding energy ties with Gulf nations are entering a new era, one in which traditional oil partnerships are expanding to include joint efforts in the critical minerals sector.

A key challenge in evaluating QCOs has been the lack of systematic mapping between QCO regulations and their corresponding Harmonized System (HS) codes. To address this gap, an exercise was undertaken to map QCOs to unique HS codes. This blog by Prerna Prabhakar provides a snapshot ...

Constantino Xavier shares three broad learnings from his collaborative work with Jabin Jacob from a project over the past three years; the 2023 report 'How China Engages South Asia: Themes, Partners and Tools' to the 2025 report 'How China Engages South Asia: In the Open and ...

This blog by Pooja Ramamurthi and Tejal Atul Karad compares the national climate policies and goals set by the two countries and explores differences in governance and implementation models pursued by India and China.

This blog is based on Janak Raj and Rakesh Mohan's latest study "India’s Climate Finance Requirements: An Assessment”.

This blog by Sushovan Chakraborty and Roya Sinha examines the evolving state of implementation of border fencing with India’s neighbours – an issue that remains an understudied but crucial aspect of border management.

This blog by Sushovan Chakraborty and Roya Sinha suggests four ways that New Delhi can prepare for a functional connectivity with Dhaka.

India remains a marginal player in global automobile exports. While its cars are affordable and capable, they do not reach far-flung markets. This paradox, of world-class potential constrained by an inward-looking industrial strategy, raises important questions about incentives, trade policy, and the role of the state, ...

There is gap highlights how rapidly Japanese capital can shift toward business-friendly environments and how India’s policy frictions can undermine its market advantages, Chandler Compton explains in this blog.

To win back Japanese capital, India must pursue a policy agenda that addresses the specific regulatory friction and supply chain challenges that drove Japanese manufacturers to ASEAN, while leveraging Japan’s unique strengths in technology and infrastructure development explains Chandler Compton in this blog.

Examining India’s current position in the global green goods market, its comparative advantages, and its tariff policies provides a good starting point to assess the country’s readiness to emerge as a global leader in this vital space. This blog by Nancy Gupta and Prerna Prabhakar attempts ...

This article by Anindita Sinh explores the evolution of the India-Japan economic relationship, Japan’s domestic and international policies in the critical minerals sector, the evolution of India and Japan’s critical minerals cooperation, and the pathways for enhancing this partnership.

In this blog, Priyadarshini Singh argues that the slew of initiatives on health and education in Karnataka over the last several months are limited in significantly improving the uptake of government's primary healthcare and elementary schooling. She makes policy recommendations to enable the emergence of new ...

In this blog, Laveesh Bhandari explains the burning questions from his and Amaresh Dubey's discussion paper, India at Work: Employment Trends in the 21st Century

For India, it is imperative to address core competitiveness issues—not only to face emerging challenges but also to seize potential opportunities, write Prerna Prabhakar, Sanjay Kathuria, and TG Srinivasan in this blog.

In this blog, Shyamasis Das and Rahul Tongia talk about the importance of tracking Vehicle Kilometres in detail.

What is driving the making of state-level initiatives? Why and when does a state make new initiatives for its health and education systems, irrespective of whether the initiatives end up improving the systems or not? Priyadarshini Singh explores these questions in her blog.

In the last decade, India has engaged with archaeology and conservation at various sites in other countries. The attached novel database of sites can pave the way for future research about India’s heritage diplomacy, writes Aleksandr Kuzmenchuk

India and Australia have intensified their engagement on critical minerals, recognising their strategic importance for economic and energy security, technology development, and industrial resilience, writes Anindita Sinh.

It is hoped that policymakers will take note of the urgent needs of cities, especially of the urban poor, write Indrani Gupta and Alok Kumar Singh in this blog.

Since 2020, the government has also introduced sector-specific production-linked incentive (PLI) schemes to drive manufacturing growth further. However, despite these efforts, the sector’s contribution remains well below the targeted levels writes Prerna Prabhakar in this blog.

From the Maldives to Myanmar and Vietnam to Indonesia, India’s claim to civilisational power is driving efforts to conserve heritage sites abroad write Aleksandr Kuzmenchuk & Constantino Xavier.

As New Delhi looks to diversify its Critical Minerals partnerships, the multidimensional relationship between India and the SADC must be honed further to establish resilient supply chains, Veda Vaidyanathan and Anika Vijapur write.

The Union Budget 2025-26 has emphasised reforms in the mining sector. To ensure requisite availabilities of critical minerals, customs duty rates on 12 critical minerals have been brought down to zero along with cobalt powder, waste and scraps of lithium, lead and zinc, Rajesh Chadha and ...

Ashwini Chitnis, Aparajita Nair Dmonty & Daljit Singh examine the financial situation of Delhi’s discoms and draw lessons about the role of the regulatory commission in shaping these outcomes.

India’s efforts in this area have seen some progress in recent years, but the gains have been insufficient to unlock the true potential of cross-border railways as a game-changer for regional trade, writes Riya Sinha.

Addressing safety, social networks, training, and hiring discrimination can help break barriers to women’s employment in South Asia, but shifting social norms remains crucial for lasting change.