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China Plus One and global supply chains
The May 6 2025 India-Pakistan conflict has raised questions about the future of South Asia’s regional economic integration. India has stopped all direct and indirect trade with Pakistan, bringing to a...
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In the 2024 Legislative Assembly elections, Maharashtra witnessed a landslide victory for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Mahayuti alliance, securing 236 seats in the 288-member assembly....
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The state visit of Sri Lanka’s President Ranil Wickremesinghe to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the COP28 summit on Dec 1, 2023 was an opportunity to attract foreign investment for his own country...
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The advent of globalisation promised countries in the Global South the benefits of equitable and free trade as well as additional financing for sustainable development. In reality, these have become...
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The discussion answers the below questions: Why was this necessary? What does China seek? How has the definition of ‘strategic investments’ changed? What does this reveal about globalization and the...
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On 5 October 2018 the U.S. announced the launch of the International Development Finance Agency, a government agency to support America’s private sector enterprises investing and operating abroad. For...
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Ambassador Hardeep Puri was part of a Gateway House Agenda 2014 panel discussion on India’s Foreign Policy agenda for the coming years on Google Hangout. In part-one of a two-part interview,...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently returned from a six-day trip from 14-19 May during which he visited China, Mongolia and South Korea. In China, in a break from the traditional diplomatic meetings...
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The India-UK relationship has not been accorded much importance in India, despite Britain’s positive shift in attitude manifest in British Prime Minister David Cameron’s third Indian visit in the last...
View ArticleFDI pharma policy needs unusual answers
The new government expected to be sworn in by May 2014 will inherit a long list of tasks that need urgent fixing. There will also be pressure to provide clarity on the issue of foreign direct...
View ArticleInterview with Ambassador Hardeep Puri (Part I)
Ambassador Hardeep Puri was part of a Gateway House Agenda 2014 panel discussion on India’s Foreign Policy agenda for the coming years on Google Hangout. In part-one of a two-part interview,...
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Foreign visits beget foreign investments
The largest investments have come from West Asia, with the UAE government committing the maximum ($75 billion) for India’s infrastructure build-out, and Qatari private players pledging $15.6 billion...
View ArticleInvolving The Private Sector In Financing Infrastructure For Development
The International Conference on Financing for Development held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 13-15 July 2015 brought together world leaders to assess progress on the implementation of the 2002 Monterrey...
View Article“Brexit”: good or bad for India?
The Greek referendum, which rejected all debt restructuring proposals, has brought into sharp focus the next challenge to the EU: the UK’s membership in the group. To appease the far right-leaning...
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The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pro-actively pursued India’s agenda of modernising and indigenising its defence sector by clearing several long-pending demands of the Indian military...
View ArticleReview: Modi in China, Mongolia and South Korea
Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently returned from a six-day trip from 14-19 May during which he visited China, Mongolia and South Korea. In China, in a break from the traditional diplomatic meetings...
View ArticlePublic procurement: policy must precede law
As India prepares to convert some of its free trade agreements into larger comprehensive agreements, it will have to re-examine some existing domestic rules and convert other rules into legislations....
View ArticleAssessing India’s infrastructure aid diplomacy
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Sri Lanka this week, two of India’s aid projects were in the spotlight—the Northern Railway Rehabilitation project in the north, as well as the housing project...
View ArticleBudget 2015: no heed to economic diplomacy
Soon after he was sworn in as Prime Minister, Narendra Modi invested India’s languishing economic diplomacy with a renewed energy. It was therefore widely expected that Budget-2015 would achieve...
View ArticleWhat Modi-Obama can achieve together
President Barack Obama’s unprecedented second visit to India while in office will also mark the first time an American head of state has attended India’s Republic Day parade as the chief guest. The...
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