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Infrastructure investments are required to enable economic growth and provide the services required by a growing population. The infrastructure already available is threatened by climate change, damaging existing assets and reducing future productivity. Investment in new infrastructure has to increase to fill the gap; as this occurs, the operation and maintenance cost of infrastructure are also expected to rise. Furthermore, as resources are scar

The post-pandemic Indian economy could resurrect itself by prioritising Sustainable Development – as the SDGs not only embody various capitals, but also hold immense potential for business opportunities. This needs to be realised through global partnerships and more private sector involvement in the domestic economy.

As South Asia faces an increasingly complex and expanding disaster risk landscape, the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the systemic gaps in risk management. There is a need for a paradigm shift in disaster risk reduction—from a single-hazard, single-sector perspective to a multi-hazard, multi-sectoral, and systemic risk perspective supported by parallel risk financing measures. This brief examines the current gaps in the efficient operatio

Global health diplomacy, once a cornerstone of soft power and international cooperation, stands at a crossroads. Recent upheavals – such as the US retreat from the World Health Organization – are challenging its role. Amid geopolitical tensions and biological threats, Lakshmy Ramakrishnan explores why global health diplomacy remains indispensable, and how rising powers like China and India can reshape the landscape

A changing global economic order will make many nations focus on India as a preferred destination for investment over China.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the fragility of healthcare systems and strained economies across the globe. India and countries in Africa have emerged as hotspots due to the dual burden of large populations and weak health infrastructure. This lack of infrastructure, coupled with decreasing investments in healthcare over the years, has left their societies and governments underprepared and potentially overwhelmed by COVID-19. As developing reg

Integrating their economies will help Bangladesh and India rise up global and regional value chains

With trade acting as a conduit between production and consumption, a post-Covid trade order must be built upon the principles of sustainability to curb the negative impacts on the ecosystem.

Care work, both paid and unpaid, is at the heart of most economies. The care sector comprises formal healthcare, childcare services, early childhood education, disability and long-term care, and eldercare. Two-thirds of care workers globally are women, and women and girls perform more than three-quarters of all unpaid care work. The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified the vulnerability of care workers and deepened the gender gap. This paper a

The COVID-19 pandemic is transforming the world of work. As new occupations are emerging in this digitised landscape, the skills and competencies required for jobs are evolving as well. This brief examines the skills gaps that persist across the G20 countries, and argues that they will need to adapt their education and training mechanisms to the changing skills requirements. Although nearly all presidencies of the G20 forum have prioritised youth

Six geopolitical lines will define the contours of the emerging global order

This report explores the economic and geopolitical impacts of climate change, highlighting the mitigated energy crisis in Europe, inflation trends, and global monetary policies. It discusses investment opportunities in sustainable travel and emerging markets, particularly in Asia, amidst the evolving energy landscape and consumer behaviors post-COVID, in the year 2023.

As extreme events are becoming the ‘new normal’ in an increasingly climate-constrained world, India’s critical infrastructure must be built to withstand, respond to, and recover rapidly from the disruptions they cause

During the Cold War, India navigated its external relations guided largely by the doctrine and practice of non-alignment. In these contemporary times, the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to inaugurate a period of heightened geopolitical rivalries, with the United States and China as the principal poles. India will be differently positioned in this post-Covid “new normal” than it was in the era of the Cold War and therefore will need differe

The human toll of the COVID-19 pandemic has been devastating. At the same time, measures to tackle the crisis have affected national economies and grounded global trade to a halt. Small Island Developing States (SIDS) such as the Seychelles are amongst the countries that have suffered some of the worst economic impacts of the outbreak. The current situation illustrates the global state of unpreparedness for a pandemic and points to similar inadeq

This brief explores the post-COVID-19 geopolitical order and the challenges facing BIMSTEC in meeting the most pressing needs of its member countries. It argues that strengthening regional organisations such as BIMSTEC will add weight to the counterbalancing of China that is underway. The brief calls on BIMSTEC to shift its priority to sectors like Connectivity, Counterterrorism and Transnational Crimes, as well as upgrading Human Resource, for b

Why India may not be the top of the list for FDI leaving China and what can be done to make it more attractive.

As the world grapples with uncertainty in the post-COVID-19 era, China appears to be focusing on bolstering its rural economy. China claims to have brought nearly 100 million people out of poverty since 2012, but the regime feels that unbalanced development can jeopardise the gains of poverty alleviation. The widening economic gap could also foment unrest in the rural areas. Additionally, the government believes that the reliance on grain

The hyper-globalisation processes that built China’s industrial might also caused enormous political churn.

Technology is vital to enabling accelerated socio-economic growth, effective governance, and relief delivery at scale. Many economies are adopting and developing technology-first frameworks to strengthen their population’s social welfare net, and support economic growth. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed both the challenges and opportunities in India that can be addressed and driven by multidimensional technology frameworks. With the rebalancin

Myanmar is ill-equipped to handle growing COVID-19 caseload on its own — it requires external help.

The Electric Vehicle (EV) segment in India has gathered momentum in recent years, but a mismatch in intent and action has resulted in limited on-ground adoption of EVs. However, the expected growth of the automobile sector (especially in the personal-mobility space), due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and people’s increased understanding of vehicular emissions, creates immense scope for the exponential growth of the EVs industry in India. Ess

The COVID-19 pandemic has made clear that global health crises are geopolitical events with far-reaching and long-lasting effects across the globe. It creates prodigious disruptions across economic, security, and social sectors, with spillover effects through trade, financial linkages, and tourism, to name the least. This essay argues that as the American-led order in Asia arguably falters, instead of China rushing to fill the post COVID-19 vacuu

Eight million Indians work in the region and send over $50 billion in remittances. This will change

देशभरात नफ्याचे गणित वाढविण्यासाठी कर्मचारी कपातीसारखे किंवा वेतन कपातीसारखे उपाय अवलंबण्यात आले. त्याने आकडेवारी सुधारली, अर्थव्यवस्थेचे गणित नाही.

परिवर्तनासाठी हिंसेचा मार्ग कघीही स्वीकारार्ह होऊ शकतो का? हा सनातन प्रश्न आता अमेरिकेत झालेल्या आंदोलनानंतर पुन्हा विचारला जाऊ लागलाय.

कोरोनाच्या पार्श्वभूमीवर आज जेव्हा मोठ्या प्रमाणात आंतरराष्ट्रीय सहकार्याची गरज आहे, त्याच वेळी जग राष्ट्रवाद आणि आत्मनिर्भरतेच्या मोहात गुंतत चालले आहे.

प्रत्यक्ष वर्गात बसून घेतले जाणारे शिक्षण ते ऑनलाइन शिक्षण हा एवढा मोठा बदल स्वीकारण्याची मानसिकता आणि क्षमता आपल्याकडच्या पालकांकडे आहे का?

शिक्षणावर केला जाणारा खर्च असतो, ती गुंतवणूक नसते, अशी आपल्या समाजाची मानसिकता आहे. ऑनलाइन शिक्षण स्वीकारण्यासाठी ही मानसिकता बदलणे अत्यंत आवश्यक आहे.

ऑनलाईन आणि ऑफलाईन यांचे सुयोग्य मिश्रण असलेली ‘संमिश्र शिक्षण पद्धत’ (Blended Learning) ही भविष्यातील महत्वाची शिक्षण पद्धत ठरेल, असे आजचे चित्र आहे.

कोविड-१९ ही देशात धाडसी आर्थिक सुधारणा करण्यासाठी महत्त्वाची वेळ आहे. ती जर साधली नाही तर, सुधारणेची मोठी संधी गमावणारे सरकार म्हणून इतिहासत नोंद होईल.

रोजगार हमी योजनेच्या विरोधात प्रचार करून सत्तेवर आलेल्या एनडीए सरकारला आता या योजनेचे महत्त्व पटू लागले आहे. त्यासाठीचा त्यांनी निधीही वाढवला आहे.

कोविड १९ या आजाराने भारतात आणि इतर देशांसमोर आव्हाने निर्माण केलेली आहेत. या अनुभवांपासून धडा घेऊन आपला देश निश्चितच नवी रचना उभारू शकतो.

२०१९मध्ये कोरोनाचा प्रभाव सुरू झाला. २०२० हे या विषाणूपासून स्वत:ला वाचविण्याचे वर्ष आहे. २०२१ हे या विषाणूसह जगण्याचे वर्ष असेल. त्यासाठी सज्ज राहायला हवे.

कोरोनानंतरच्या मंदीमध्ये भारतातील ९० कोटींपेक्षा जास्त लोकसंख्या गरिबी रेषेच्याही खाली ढकलली जाणे, हे आपल्यासाठी दुःस्वप्न ठरणार यात शंका नाही.

कोरोनाचे संकट हे भारतासारख्या देशांसाठी कमी कार्बन उत्सर्जन करणाऱ्या पर्यावरणस्नेही अर्थव्यवस्थेच्या दिशेने वाटचाल करण्यासाठी मोठी संधी ठरू शकेल.