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Decoding Union Budget 2022-23: Empty promises or solid deliverables?
Indian Economy Feb 02, 2022

Decoding Union Budget 2022-23: Empty promises or solid deliverables?

While Budget 2022 has made allocations to address the challenges faced by the economy, effective implementation of the Budget will be key to its success ...

Union Budget 2022: Focus on digital, digital finance, and the future of finance
Indian Economy Feb 02, 2022

Union Budget 2022: Focus on digital, digital finance, and the future of finance

This year’s budget has laid out the framework for a digitally-led India, with special emphasis placed upon digitalising finance ...

Debt Burden and a Bijli, Sadak, Paani Budget
Indian Economy Feb 02, 2022

Debt Burden and a Bijli, Sadak, Paani Budget

Amid rising debt, government bets that big infrastructure spending is not just growth-enhancing, but also popular ...

#Budget2022’s big capital investment bonanza leaves the health sector largely untouched
Indian Economy | Healthcare Feb 02, 2022

#Budget2022’s big capital investment bonanza leaves the health sector largely untouched

Against the backdrop of the pandemic, the budget continues to club the health sector with the social determinants of health ...

Anchored in Bharat, Budget 2022 exudes confidence, powers India’s growth
Indian Economy Feb 01, 2022

Anchored in Bharat, Budget 2022 exudes confidence, powers India’s growth

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman budget remains unassuming in grand announcements, matter of fact in its outlook, and deglamorised in form—just the way a Union Budget ought to be ...

Defence budget 2022-23: Securing India, pursuing self-reliance
Defence and Security | Indian Economy Feb 01, 2022

Defence budget 2022-23: Securing India, pursuing self-reliance

Keeping in line with the security needs of India, the defence budget saw a significant increase. Will this be enough to boost defence research and development? ...

Chinese narrative on the Sri Lankan debt crisis
International Affairs | China Foreign Policy Feb 01, 2022

Chinese narrative on the Sri Lankan debt crisis

As the “debt-trap” criticism intensifies, Chinese commentators have proposed their own counternarrative on the Sri Lankan debt crisis ...

A year on, India mulls over its Myanmar policy
International Affairs Feb 01, 2022

A year on, India mulls over its Myanmar policy

The Myanmar coup has left India in a tight spot as it continues to factor in its strategic interests in Myanmar ...

Economic Survey 2021-22: New data through new tools for new policymaking
Indian Economy Jan 31, 2022

Economic Survey 2021-22: New data through new tools for new policymaking

This year’s survey encompasses the massive changes that the country has had to go through over the decades in the long term as well as through the pandemic  ...

Vietnamese views of India
International Affairs Jan 31, 2022

Vietnamese views of India

Despite projecting close ties with Vietnam, the ground reality reflects a different story ...

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Rachel Rizzo

Rachel Rizzo

Rachel Rizzo is a Senior Fellow with ORF’s Strategic Studies Programme. Her work focuses on US foreign and defence policy, the transatlantic partnership, and US-Europe-India relations. Rachel was previously a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center based in ...

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Nimisha Chadha

Nimisha Chadha is a Research Assistant with ORF’s Centre for New Economic Diplomacy. She was previously an Associate at PATH (2023) and has a MSc in Policy Economics from Erasmus University, Rotterdam. ...

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