The book by Om Prakash Mathur "Changing Paradigms of Urbanisation: India and Beyond", consists of papers on urbanisation, urban regional development and planning, urban governance and finance, and urban research. 

This working paper attempts to quantify the scale and possible composition of the international financial assistance required to help developing countries fulfill their climate change mitigation and adaption targets and suggests how this might be agreed upon in international negotiations.

Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Utkarsh Patel describe how India could make progress towards meeting its climate change mitigation commitments which involve achieving net zero emissions by 2070.

This paper narrates the story of the evolutionary journey of non-performing assets (NPA) in the Indian banking sector.

Health as a political priority both for voters and politicians in a democracy is investigated through a survey and pertinent questions are explored.

As we approach the aftermath of the pandemic, the challenge is to reset the pillars of the fiscal architecture and better manage public finances across all levels of government—as the lynchpin of any successful growth strategy in a post-pandemic world.

Chapter on "Reinventing Non-Alignment in South Asia:The Foreign Policies of Nepal and the Maldives" by Nicholas Blarel and Constantino Xavier in the book "Routledge Handbook of the International Relations of South Asia".

Anchoring Change attempts to answer these and several other such questions, through accounts of organizations from across India, spanning the seventy-five years since independence.

Asia and the Changing Global Economy: Rebuilding Growth Potential, authored by Anoop Singh, looks at fundamental issues from several perspectives in today’s complex global economy and provides invaluable lessons for what needs to be done to sustain the international framework for global trade and investment.

The Next Stop, edited by Vikram Singh Mehta, features 38 global experts on a comprehensive roadmap for India’s natural gas sector.

No discussion of India's energy future can ignore coal. Across 18 chapters, drawing from leading experts in the field, this book examines all aspects of coal's future in India.

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 and “normalization” of its national security strategy and India’s rising defence and maritime profile in the Indo-Pacific region present opportunities to both governments. Tokyo has become an indispensable partner in ...

Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s coalition government was at the helm of affairs from 1998 to 2004 and significantly shaped India’s defence policies. Some of this was by design, such as the nuclear tests in 1998 which allowed India to come out of the secrecy closet and led to its subsequent accommodation ...

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 and will soon comprise the world’s three largest economies. Critical inflection points in their origins as modern world powers date from between 1945 and 1950. In the immediate aftermath of World ...

The Indian Ocean Region (IOR) has long been considered a backwater to major power rivalry and global geopolitics. During the Cold War the “action” was in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans where submarines, ships, and planes played a game of cat and mouse. Superpower rivalry played out in the Middle East and ...

Strategy is a much misunderstood, misused, and maligned concept. In general, it refers to how individuals and organisations set goals and attempt to achieve them under uncertain conditions and with limited resources. In the context of national policymaking, the term ‘strategy’ is often used as shorthand for ‘grand strategy’. Grand strategy is how a national ...

India stands at an important juncture today. Its central government has probably its strongest political mandate since the 1980s, and arguably since the 1970s. The country’s economic growth is going well by global standards, but with considerable room for improvement. It has also become more diplomatically active with unprecedented cooperation with the ...

What does the election of Donald Trump as President of the USA mean for India? The short answer is that no one knows, not even Trump himself. India was fortunate not to feature prominently during the heated and divisive 2016 US election season. The occasional statements concerning India by President Trump and ...

India and Germany are both emerging as important international leaders in the 21st century. India has seen its economic growth rate accelerate over the last quarter century, and in that time it has doubled its share of global gross domestic product.[1] India’s growing resource base and market are beginning to manifest themselves ...

India has only 29 embassies in Africa, while the continent has 54 countries —  or  55  if one counts the disputed Western Sahara as a country. Given the proximity both in terms of geography and colonial history, this level of disengagement between India and Africa is disappointing, and should be remedied soon. ...

Trade Relations There are three elements to India’s trade re­lations with Africa – increasing the volume of imports and exports between the two countries; government support to the private sec­tor; and the diverse nature of India’s economic engagements, both government and private, with Africa. Bilateral trade jumped from $5.3 billion in 2001 ...

India’s participation in United Nations Peace­keeping Operations (UNPKO) is probably without parallel it has been one of the largest contributors of peacekeepers and has suffered the most casualties in the process. Indicative of the thrust of UN peacekeeping missions, 80 percent of India’s peacekeepers are presently serving in Africa and 70 percent of ...

The Bharatiya Janata Party manifesto, released at the crescendo of the 16th Lok Sabha elections, bore the imprimatur of its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi and emphasized the centrality of India’s neighborhood in its foreign policy. It asserted that “political stability, progress and peace in the region are essential for south Asia’s ...

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Barack Obama met for their first summit in September 2014 in Washington DC, they had a crowded and diverse agenda ranging from terrorism to trade and a spate of other issues. This reflected the sheer breadth of the India-U.S. relationship, but the agenda also included ...

The key areas that need policy effort or solutions, whatever these may be, focus on: 1)      Finance: The high cost of capital is just one reason for the relatively high cost of renewable power.  In addition to absolute costs (which are falling), risks of all power projects remain, making the required returns ...

A nuanced look at Making Renewables in India Sustainable, spanning economics, environment, grid integration, regulation, role of States, consumers, employment, and innovation. Authors bring experience from Government, Industry, NGOs, and Academia. Foreword Renewable energy, more specifically, electricity from renewable sources of energy, has traditionally been viewed in a narrow lens of price ...

Chapter Summary: This chapter discusses renewables integration in the context of the larger electricity system, especially the interconnected grid.  More than just the global challenges of location-specifics (concentration in often remote locations), variability, and economics, the Indian power system is different from that of the west.  Most importantly, the Indian grid peak ...

Chapter Summary: This chapter (sidebar) focuses on the economics of renewables, pointing out that more than just typical power plant variables like construction cost, interest rates, plant load factors (aka capacity utilization factors), etc., economic comparisons must factor in network level costs due to the variability of most renewables.  With one set ...

Chapter Summary: This chapter explores the future of the grid as a Smart Grid, in particular how it can synergize with renewable power.  This includes new (dynamic) pricing schemes, storage technologies, and dynamic demand management.  Each of these aspects, rather, the entire spectrum of a Smart Grid needs policy support, independent of ...

The SAARC nations face a common energy crisis. Other than Bhutan, they are all deficient in energy. The bulk of their populations do not have secure access and they are vulnerable to the volatility of the international petroleum market. Moreover they are all on the cusp of energy intensive economic growth. The ...

Prima facie the prospect of defense and military cooperation between SAARC countries would appear to be beyond the realm of possibility given their conflictual relations. Indeed, apart from the well-known India-Pakistan hostilities, there have been similar confrontations between Afghanistan-Pakistan, India-Bangladesh, and even Nepal-Bhutan. Yet, the potential for military cooperation is conceivable in ...