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India-Pakistan: When Politics and Economics Work at Cross-Purposes

India, Nov. 10 -- Can trade and people-to-people relationships survive prolonged political estrangement is a question worth our consideration? Since Partition in 1947, India-Pakistan relations have b... Read More


India's Oil Diplomacy: Navigating the Gulf Crisis With Strategic Autonomy

New Delhi, Nov. 5 -- The Gulf crisis has placed India's foreign policy under an extraordinary test. The conflict involving Iran, Israel and the United States has disrupted energy supplies and threaten... Read More


India's Poverty Reduction: But Is It Translating into Shared Economic Prosperity?

New Delhi, Nov. 1 -- The reported decline in India's extreme poverty, from 27.1% in 2011 to 2.6% in 2023, as reflected in the World Bank's October 2026 Poverty and Equity Brief, is undoubtedly a major... Read More


South Asia's Green Transition: Need for Regional Cooperation to Capture Value

New Delhi, Oct. 31 -- India's ambitions in electric vehicles, critical minerals and semiconductors reflect a search for industrial strength and strategic autonomy. Yet the region's experience raises a... Read More


Transnational Education: Making International Skills Development Inclusive

New Delhi, Oct. 13 -- Beyond the foreign university model, transnational education, or TNE, is generally understood as education delivered in a country other than the country in which the awarding ins... Read More


South Asia's Development Finance Dilemma: Debt, FDI and the Search for Productive Capital

New Delhi, Oct. 9 -- The international development-finance landscape is changing. Foreign aid is under pressure, borrowing has become more expensive, foreign direct investment (FDI) is increasingly co... Read More


From Infrastructure to Investment: Building West Bengal's Next Growth Cycle

New Delhi, Sept. 28 -- For years, the economic debate in West Bengal has returned to the same prescription: better roads, stronger ports, reliable power, industrial parks and improved logistics. Infra... Read More


Livelihoods, Employment and Environmental Management in South Asia's Hilly Regions: Lessons from ADB's New Investment in Bangladesh

New Delhi, Sept. 25 -- The Asian Development Bank's latest investment proposal in Bangladesh's Chattogram Hill Tracts (CHT) offers a useful lens through which to examine a wider development challenge ... Read More


South Asia's Renewable Transition: Energy Security, Geopolitics and the BRICS Factor

New Delhi, Sept. 15 -- Renewable energy has acquired an importance that extends well beyond climate policy. The Paris Agreement of 2015 established the long-term imperative of reducing greenhouse gas ... Read More


Beyond De-Dollarisation: Payment Diversification and Debt Resilience for Global South Nations

New Delhi, Sept. 2 -- The international monetary system is not moving suddenly away from the US dollar. Yet beneath the apparent stability of the dollar's global role, an important change is taking pl... Read More