Service bonds for doctors are defended as repayment for subsidy, yet their fragmented design and penalty-heavy enforcement risk substituting coercion for effective workforce planning. ...
The unfolding US-Israel war on Iran has exposed a shift in African diplomacy, where pragmatic calculation and strategic flexibility increasingly outweigh ideological positioning in foreign policy responses ...
India’s school safety guidelines were designed to manage natural disasters, but the recent wave of hoax bomb-threat emails targeting schools shows this framework is far less prepared for intentional, digital-age disruptions ...
In the ongoing US–Israel conflict with Iran, Tehran targets Gulf states to exert second-order coercion on Washington and Tel Aviv, while the US–Israeli campaign seeks to degrade Iran’s capabilities and exploit internal fragmentation ...
Climate-linked non-tariff measures are intensifying trade frictions and regulatory divergence, raising costs for developing economies and making WTO reform essential to manage the net-zero transition ...
Russia’s actions in Ukraine highlight the paradox of spheres of influence, an enduring logic of great-power security that ultimately deepens rivalry, instability, and obstacles to lasting peace ...
The RSP’s landslide victory reflects public exhaustion with entrenched political elites and opens a decisive yet uncertain chapter in Nepal’s democratic and developmental trajectory ...
Bangladesh’s National Citizen Party must convert the momentum of the July Uprising of 2024 into organisational strength while preserving its inclusive agenda within an alliance dominated by Jamaat-e-Islami ...
Without climate-responsive triggers in its welfare programmes, India risks allowing extreme weather to repeatedly erase the gains of poverty reduction ...
Sanae Takaichi must navigate constitutional constraints, alliance expectations, and China’s rise to redefine Tokyo’s strategic role in the Indo-Pacific ...
Niranjan Sahoo, PhD, is a Senior Fellow with ORF’s Governance and Politics Initiative. With years of expertise in governance and public policy, he now anchors studies and programmes on democracy, human rights, federalism, electoral reforms (particularly issues related to political ...
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Niranjan Sahoo, PhD, is a Senior Fellow with ORF’s Governance and Politics Initiative. With years of expertise in governance and public policy, he now anchors studies and programmes on democracy, human rights, federalism, electoral reforms (particularly issues related to political ...
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