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Don’t take your eye off the ball
Modern designer–inventor R. Buckminster Fuller once remarked “If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat makes a fortuitous life preserver.”...
View ArticleCan India and China collaborate on energy in Africa?
India has huge stakes in Africa. So has China, especially in the energy sector. And the following are some pertinent questions: Are we in competition with China when it comes to securing energy...
View ArticleWhy John Kerry’s trip to India will be about polite words, little else
Almost six months after his installation as Secretary of State and more than a dozen visits to the turbulent Middle East, as well as to other parts of the globe, John Kerry is coming to India – the...
View ArticleBiden’s political skills will be tested in India
U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden’s visit to India this week is meant to correct the vision on bilateral relations, one currently clouded by near-sightedness and in danger of losing additional sight....
View ArticleBook excerpt: Agricultural development and food security in Africa
Scope of the book The book is divided into five sections. In the first, the approach to the research is elaborated, and the contemporary and historical debates on the role of foreign capital in...
View ArticleThe domestic dimensions of India’s international economic crisis
Summary: As recently as three years ago, India was being hailed by the international community as an upcoming economic superpower along with China. Now, however, the country finds itself wading...
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 ArticleIndia-UK: Re-energising trade ties
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 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,...
View ArticleInadequate economic manifestos
Foreign institutional investors – as the money trail seems to suggest – have a fair idea of who is likely to win the 2014 general elections. What is still not known, though, is the winning party’s...
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...
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 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 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 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 ArticleDefence and India’s private sector
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 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...
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...
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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 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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