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Smart climate governance needs to be set in place that aligns incentives and institutions to de-risk climate finance, unlock public–private synergie

The AFGHS illustrates a new era in which US global health engagement is increasingly shaped by commercial incentives, geopolitical calculations, and c

पारंपरिक ऊर्जा का उपयोग कम कर भारत अपने ऊर्जा क्षेत्र मे�

To meet rising copper demand for its energy transition, India must tackle technological and structural hurdles in scrap refining, formalise its inform

Indigenous innovation, targeted incentives and high-tech collaboration must shape the nation’s defence sector in an era of heightened global uncerta

On World Health Day 2025, India’s rising C-section rates highlight how financial incentives and cultural factors are turning childbirth into a comme

Balancing incentives, barriers, and climate agendas, how is philanthropic investment empowering governments to widen climate adaptation financing goal

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman balances welfare and jobs with growth and private sector incentives

Aside from financial aid, the UK’s Rwanda bill does not offer any incentives to Rwanda and only exports the domestic challenges caused by immigratio

मुलींना शिक्षित करणे हे अधिक समृद्ध, न्याय्य आणि सशक्त भ�

Educating girls helps foster a more prosperous, equitable, and empowered India

मध्यम-उत्पन्न अर्थव्यवस्था विरुद्ध प्रगत अर्थव्यवस्था�

To create a world-class clean energy ecosystem in India that is safe, all stakeholders must work collectively to develop all critical components and a

Creating a new system to stimulate investment in enough future capacity without interfering with the ancillary market's valuation and procurement of r

The compounded incentives offered by the Indian government along with smooth approvals and licenses, would be critical in moving India up the global s

इस बिल का प्राथमिक उद्देश्य आपूर्ति पक्ष को बिजली वितरण �

The primary focus of this bill is to open the supply side in distribution to competition in the market.

कोयले की मांग में बढ़ोतरी के बीच सरकार के पास अब एक ही व्य�

Though the Budget has increased financial incentives to the RE industry, it does not reflect an unambiguous focus on the energy transition of the coun

Where the stakes are high, political leaders have few incentives to take intelligence warnings seriously.

Economic growth is — finally — a priority and the entrepreneur a key participant in that conversation.

भारत में वर्ष 2018 के दौरान सौर फोटोवोल्टिक (पीवी) सेक्‍टर म�

सही तरह के मापन-योग्य लक्ष्य आधारित प्रोत्साहन (वित्तीय �

As PM Modi is interested in making India great & is championing ‘Make in India’ slogan, he should perhaps give more incentives to Indian village i

The debate on digital transactions and the merits of a “cashless” economy engaged public attention in India in the past year. This paper steers the debate towards articulating an appropriate strategy that can bring the Indian economy closer to becoming “cashless”. The paper begins with an exposition of the theoretical model of the digitalisation process, identifying a set of core structural parameters that determine a nation’s readiness

Though India dreams of replicating the shale gas successes of the US, it cannot enjoy the luxury of easily acquiring land for shale gas operations. In the US, landowners, besides owning surface rights, also own mineral rights. Consequently, they receive huge financial incentives directly from oil and gas companies.

Cultural entrepreneurship promotes a country’s heritage, resources and creative talents through products, services, and experiences. It shapes the country’s cultural economy; enables economic growth, innovation, and sociocultural development; and, when exported, contributes towards building soft power. India, with a millennia-old heritage, indigenous knowledge systems, and practices, has the potential to become a leading cultural and

India’s critical water infrastructure must be built to withstand, respond to, and recover rapidly from climate disruptions

In 2023, 3.55 million patent applications were filed worldwide. In India, 90,298 applications were recorded that year, marking an increase of 17.2 percent from 2022 and 25.2 percent from 2021. Over 50 percent of these applications originated from Indian residents, highlighting growing domestic innovation. Despite these year-on-year improvements, however, India continues to lag behind countries like China, the United States, and Japan both in term

Distributed production and consumption of RE by households and industries, primarily using solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, is projected as a potential driver of RE generation and consumption but challenges remain

Financing of infrastructure in India will remain a big problem despite the fact that the government has issued infrastructure bonds with tax incentives. Finding external finance is thus very important because the amounts required would be in billions of dollars.

Emissions from fossil fuel-powered motor vehicles adversely affect air quality and contribute to global warming. The manufacture and use of electric vehicles (EVs) is among the ways by which this challenge can be mitigated. This brief evaluates the best practices adopted by countries in the forefront of EV adoption, and outlines the lessons India can draw from them to inform its own EVs strategy. It finds that in addition to strengthening

The neighbouring waters around China have been marked by competing maritime territorial claims for decades. In recent years, tensions have intensified as Beijing’s inroads have increased in pace and extent. Today China’s economic security is closely linked to the South China Sea. With Beijing repeatedly engaging in acts that are widely seen as violative of international maritime law, there is a growing need to underscore the significance and

The Brazilian economy is in a new period of transition. Its challenges today are of tax incentives in order to steer foreign investments towards the domestic shores and curbing rising inequality and urban-rural divide.

With trade wars and financial realignments looming, India's success in this evolving landscape will depend on its ability to balance collaboration with autonomy

India’s economic and policymaking commentariat has focused on the factors that have inhibited India’s manufacturing growth. It is time they shift their focus to successful cases

This brief examines the literacy landscape in India between 1987 and 2017, focusing on the gender gap in four age cohorts: children, youth, working-age adults, and the elderly. It finds that the gender gap in literacy has shrunk substantially for children and youth, but the gap for older adults and the elderly has seen little improvement. A state-level analysis of the gap reveals the same trend for most Indian states. The brief offers recommendat

What can and must be done is to reduce the incentives for avoiding or evading tax.

India’s young women, now more educated and healthier than ever, are entering a phase of significant socio-economic progress. Many of these women also aspire to become social innovators. With gender parity in education and an increasing number of women in STEM fields, they have increased potential for social innovation. However, barriers such as gendered social norms, domestic and care responsibilities, the digital divide, safety concerns, limit

Agrobiodiversity—the foundation of resilient and just food systems—is undergoing rapid and unprecedented erosion across the Global South. More than 90 percent of traditional crop varieties have disappeared, while just nine plant species now provide two-thirds of calorie intake globally. Similarly, 97 percent of global meat production is derived from only eight domesticated species, and nearly 20 percent of food-relevant wild species are threa

Growing pressure on global food systems—from multiple factors such as soil degradation and climate volatility, biodiversity loss and shifting agri-food markets—has revived interest in production models that combine ecological integrity with economic viability. In this context, regenerative agriculture is being explored as a set of practices and management principles aimed at improving soil function, strengthening landscape-level processes, an

As the global balance of power shifts, deeper engagement with the Global South has become a strategic necessity for the European Union (EU). However, the EU’s engagement with the Global South is undermined by a convergence of challenges that cumulatively erode its credibility and offer limited incentives to potential partners amid competing alternatives. This brief makes a case for a shift toward pragmatic, demand-driven cooperation, designed t

This Paper outlines the potential of renewable energy in addressing India's energy supply and access; it identifies challenges and provide a discursive overview of the various market and policy instruments developed to scale up renewable energy generation. India’s significant economic growth over the last decade has led to an inexorable rise in energy demand. Currently, India faces a Ichallenging energy shortage. To grow at 9 per cent over t

Goal 11 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals aims to “make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.” Its targets include the promotion of resilience to disasters such as earthquakes. Many of India’s cities that lie in high-intensity zones—determined by ‘seismic microzonation’—are extremely vulnerable to earthquakes. Such cities, therefore, must move towards developing and adopting policies that pro

This brief examines how transactional bilateralism has become a feature of American trade policy under Trump 2.0, and argues that economic coercion can lead to cooperation when the right structural conditions exist. Framed by the idea of ‘reciprocism’, it explores how cooperation can emerge among self-interested states when two conditions, namely, small-N participation and credible pre-play commitments that reshape incentives, are present. Th