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What did the G20 meeting in Scotland achieve?
Jayshree Sengupta
10 November 2009
There was no conclusive agreement on the extent of support for climate change though Britain called on G20 to meet the cost of climate change and work out a deal worth $100 billion
 
Analysis
 
BUDGET ANALYSIS: 2009-2010
Sridhar Kundu28 July 2009
The Observer Research Foundation held a discussion on Budget 2009-10, on 7th July 2009 at the ORF Campus New Delhi. Mr. N K Singh, former member, Planning Commission and present Rajya Sabha Member chaired the meeting.
 
Look back at the Great Depression for a solution
Sridhar Kundu02 February 2009
The cure to the current global economic slowdown and India?s woes seems to lie in the prescription of economist John Maynard Keynes to increase public spending
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Report
 
The tale of the sad negotiator
Sunjoy Joshi 27 July 2009
How is it that in the increasingly heated debate on global warming those occupying the most carbon space have by a curious twist succeeded in not only drawing developing countries like India into the "major emitters forum" but succeeded in painting them as the new brash kids on the block needing to be taken through the rites of initiation of this select club?
 
G-20 was promising, but short on substance
Samir Saran 03 April 2009
While India eagerly supported the American line, the Chinese clearly lacked original voice, enmeshed as they are in the ’Made in America’ mire
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Issue Briefs & Monographs
 
India and the Economic Meltdown: Challenges and Possible Responses
Samir Saran and Siba Prasad Tripathy15 April 2009
The financial crisis across the globe and the ensuing responses by nations and non-state actors has dominated both public consciousness and political debate in the recent past. The discussion on suitable stimulus packages, the causes for the financial disorder and future restructuring of the financial systems has often been dominated by the rhetoric of specific constituencies serving individual interests even as it loses sight of the substantive argument.
 
ICT Adoption and Productivity Gains in Indian Manufacturing
Rakesh Basant 19 October 2007
Adoption of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) can affect the performance of firms in a variety of ways, including faster processing of information and products, the facilitation of changes in business practices and improved internal organisation and management.
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Occasional Papers
 
Trade and FDI related reforms in the states, 1991-2007: The Case of Maharashtra
Gitanjali Sen 01 August 2009
The liberalisation policy of India that was initiated in 1991 was designed to dismantle the protectionist regime through removal of industrial licenses, thereby reducing the strict bureaucratic control under which the country’s foreign trade had been suffering for decades.
 
The National Water Scene
Ramaswamy R. Iyer 20 February 2007
With the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal announcing its ?nal award, water, in general, and inter-State river water issues, in particular, are once again in the national focus. There are varying concerns about the socio-political fallout of the Tribunal award in the riparian States, with Karnataka and Kerala expressing unhappiness to differing degrees, and Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, respectively, expressing ’relief’ and ’satisfaction’.
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Events
 

Conference on

India Abroad, India Within: A Day with India's Public Intellectuals
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
(10:00 AM To 6:00 PM)

Roundtable Discussion on

"Transnational Threats And India's Security in 2020"
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
(11:00 AM To 2:00 PM)
Venue: ORF-Delhi, Conference Hall

 


Conference on

"India-Bangladesh Dialogue on Security"
Friday, 19 March 2010
(10:00 AM To 6:00 PM) &
Saturday, 20 March 2010
(10:00 AM To 6:00 PM)
Venue: ORF-Delhi

 


Talk on

"India-Bangladesh Relations: An Overview"
Saturday, 20 March 2010
(11:00 AM To 1:00 PM)
Venue: Conference Hall, Fifth Floor, Kothari Buildings, 115 Nungambakkam High Road, Chennai

 


Roundtable Discussion on

"Water for Indian Cities"
Tuesday, 6 April 2010
(9:30 AM To 5:00 PM)
Venue: ORF-Delhi, Conference Hall

 


Roundtable Discussion on

"Low Carbon Future and Sustainability in India in the Post-Copenhagen Era"
Monday, 19 April 2010
(10:00 AM To 6:00 PM) &
Tuesday, 20 April 2010
(10:00 AM To 6:00 PM)
Venue: ORF-Delhi

 


Conference on

ORF - Heritage Dialogue 2010 on "Terrorism in South Asia: Perspectives from US and India"
Thursday, 22 March 2010
(10:00 AM To 6:00 PM)
Venue: ORF-Delhi, Conference Hall


Seminar

ORF-China Seminar
Friday, 30 April 2010
(10:00 AM To 6:00 PM) &
Saturday, 1 May 2010
(10:00 AM To 5:00 PM)

Venue: ORF-Delhi, Conference Hall

 


Workshop

DU-ORF Summer Workshop
17 May 2010 - 2 June 2010
(10:00 AM To 5:00 PM)
Venue: ORF-Delhi, Conference Hall

 



  
 
National
For an Indian military-industrial complex
19 February 2010
Manish Tewari
The defence ministry did take an interest in promoting the private sector to increase self-reliance in defence production
 
Can India be the next industrial hub of the World?
17 February 2010
Jayshree Sengupta
India's agriculture has not grown fast enough to support the growing rural population
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International
To talk now is wrong
22 February 2010
Kanwal Sibal
Pakistan has shown inadequate political will to act against the Mumbai conspirators and
 
Yemen: The Real Story
19 February 2010
Saeed Naqvi
Just as Zia ul Haq and the ISI chose to keep the Mujahideen as an asset,
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China
China's missile defence test: Yet another milestone?
02 February 2010
Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan
China's missile defence test has come against the backdrop of the US sale of weapons to Taiwan
 
Does China have feet of clay?
01 February 2010
Ishaan Saxena
China may be growing at an astonishing pace and registering record earnings
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South Asia
South Asia Weekly Report
3 March 2010
Sri Lanka is on election mode, the second time in as many months. With parliamentary polls slated for 8 April
 
Islamic Extremsim A Challenge for Maldives Govt. also: Vice President
20 February 2010
Vice President of the Republic of Maldives Dr. Mohammed Waheed Hassan today said that there is a rising confusion in Islam over the extremism
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