This segment headlines one of the most important questions of our time: how should cyberspace be governed? This segment features insights from experts and emerging voices at the intersection of law, security, economics and the politics of global internet governance.
This segment provides a commentary on contemporary political and economic developments in Europe and North America from an international perspective.
This segment tracks the implementation of the sustainable development goals (SDG) in India with a focus on reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child (RMNC) health and nutrition. Starting with the processes of mainstreaming of SDGs in the national plan and the nationalisation of SDG indicator framework, segment will also regularly feature guest posts on health and nutrition.
This segment seeks to provoke new ideas about India and explore the diverse challenges facing the country. It provides a platform to increase engagement on the contemporary debates and developments in India’s social, political and economic orders.
At a time when India was emerging from the aftermath of Partition and shortages, the objective of this Act was to protect citizens from exploitation by unscrupulous traders. ...
Finance Commissions decide the distribution taxes between the centre and the states, and is the key financial lever determining the federal structure of the Indian economy. ...
If airlines symbolised the travel of the rich, they should logically have been banned altogether or taxed heavily. Instead, the government nationalised them, destroyed the civil aviation industry and set India back by decades. ...
The law declared “in the public interest” — a term that would get echoed over the next five decades for several laws and policies, to mean the curbing of all economic freedom — that the central government “should take under its control” the industries specified ...
An analysis of the agenda papers and records of the first 50 meetings indicates the dominance of a central economic thought, articulated by the prime minister and union ministers, with states following that direction. ...
As companies and producers began to embrace and communicate their adherence to the “ISI Mark” as a virtue, the mark and the quality it certified soon became a household name. But there remained a gap in the creation of standards. ...
In their new avatars, ICICI Bank and IDBI Bank command the size and scale to repeat that performance for household finance, while IFCI is teetering under the weight of sharp deterioration of asset quality and deviations from lending norms, according to the Comptroller and Auditor ...
This law enacted in 1947 showed who would be in charge of capital in socialist India. ...
Diya Shah is a Research Assistant at ORF’s Centre for Economy and Growth. Her work explores developments in climate finance as part of a broader, ever-evolving climate discourse, specifically focusing on gaps in global financial infrastructures, adaptive finance and carbon ...
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Diya Shah is a Research Assistant at ORF’s Centre for Economy and Growth. Her work explores developments in climate finance as part of a broader, ever-evolving climate discourse, specifically focusing on gaps in global financial infrastructures, adaptive finance and carbon ...
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