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Quantitative Easing variants in Emerging Markets: Magic or madness?
Jan 23, 2021

Quantitative Easing variants in Emerging Markets: Magic or madness?

Often likened to financing fiscal deficits overnight, Quantitative Easing is meant to prevent unwarranted tightening during times of stress.

Inadequate financial governance: Nowhere near perfect solution
Jul 29, 2013

Inadequate financial governance: Nowhere near perfect solution

One can see the problem of illicit financial flow in a narrow view in terms of loss of tax revenue, but the more often missed out perspective is that these illicit flows create imbalances in the global economy that upset the efficiency of capital. Illicit financial flows cannot be curtailed without the collaborative effort of both developing as well as developed countries

Pay-to-Play Visas, Human-Capital Stakes: The H-1B Fee’s India Effect
Oct 10, 2025

Pay-to-Play Visas, Human-Capital Stakes: The H-1B Fee’s India Effect

Amid a US$100,000 H-1B fee and shifting talent flows, India is moving from services dependence toward capability building—retooling human capital, delivery models, and partnerships for innovation at scale.

Quad, India, and the development-linked cooperative security in the Indo-Pacific
Mar 16, 2021

Quad, India, and the development-linked cooperative security in the Indo-Pacific

Multidimensional development-linked cooperation, as initiated by Quad, should be seen by countries in the region as an enabler to harmonise domestic structural reforms with a secure and enabling external environment of trade, investment, technology, and capital flows.

Building Resilience to External Shocks in G20 Economies
Jul 15, 2023

Building Resilience to External Shocks in G20 Economies

The transmission of external shocks via trade and financial channels from advanced economies to emerging and developing economies has occurred during several turbulent episodes. This policy brief documents factors that may help build resilience to such shocks. It emphasises that G20 nations must resort to policy coordination, renew the emphasis on trade ties, strengthen the financial architecture, and enhance global supply chains to cope with the

Unlocking capital for climate response in the emerging world
Apr 23, 2021

Unlocking capital for climate response in the emerging world

The policy decision to decarbonise capital flows are important in driving the necessary shift towards a more sustainable and resilient global order, but the shift must be nuanced and responsive to on-ground political realities, and target economies and sectors that have the most work to do to decarbonise.

Capital Flows in the Quantitative Easing Era: Building Resilience in Emerging Economies
Sep 13, 2023

Capital Flows in the Quantitative Easing Era: Building Resilience in Emerging Economies

This paper highlights the risks that emerging economies are exposed to given the extended use of Unconventional Monetary Policies in advanced economies. It also explores how financial resilience of emerging economies can be increased to ensure stable economic growth.

Creating Effective Sustainable Finance Taxonomies
Feb 12, 2025

Creating Effective Sustainable Finance Taxonomies

A number of countries, including India, have either announced or are already implementing sustainable finance taxonomies that help mobilise capital for sustainable development and climate action. This brief examines the challenges to implementing sustainable finance taxonomies, including lack of harmonisation and standardisation, unavailability of data, lack of capacity, and financial burdens on companies applying these taxonomies. The brief prop

The Geoeconomics of Climate Finance
Nov 22, 2021

The Geoeconomics of Climate Finance

The global climate finance architecture tends to restrain emerging economies from mobilising and accessing global private commercial capital for energy transition. This brief explores the different global financial regulations that influence climate capital flows between countries, and argues that institutions must enhance their role in facilitating the optimal allocation of capital. It evaluates the role of Multilateral Development Banks from a

Blue Economy in 2021: Perspectives from Seychelles
Jan 08, 2021

Blue Economy in 2021: Perspectives from Seychelles

Seychelles will need to focus intensely on re-building its economy by creating, rejuvenating, and upscaling the country’s outlined Blue Economy sectors.