Category Insights

Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.

Defence, Foreign Policy and Union Budget 2025-26

Insights, Center for International Relations and Strategic Studies, Event Reports, International Relations and Strategic Studies

IMPRI Center for International Relations and Strategic Studies (CIRSS), IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi, organized a panel discussion on Defence, Foreign Policy, and Union Budget 2025-26 as part of its #WebPolicyTalk series. The event was a key session in IMPRI’s 6th Annual Series of Thematic Deliberations and Analysis of Union Budget 2025-26, bringing together experts to discuss the budget’s implications for defence and foreign policy.

IMPRI Desk
February 12, 2025

The Environment and the Union Budget 2025-26

Insights, Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Environment, Energy, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Event Reports, Panel Discussion

As part of IMPRI's 6th Annual Series of Thematic Deliberations and Analysis of the Union Budget 2025-26, the IMPRI Center for Environment, Climate Change, and Sustainable Development (CECCSD) organized a thematic discussion on The Environment and the Union Budget 2025-26.

IMPRI Desk
February 12, 2025

Disaster policy must ensure climate justice and sufficient funding.

Insights, Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development

While stepping into the second month of 2025, it is important to reflect on our policy advances and responses in the arena of disaster management, preparedness and resilience in response to an adversely changing climate.

IMPRI Desk and Sandeep Chachra
February 11, 2025

Beyond the Budget 2025: The Need for Bold Defence Funding Reforms

Insights, Center for the Study for Finance and Economics

The first full Budget of the Modi government’s third term allocated ₹6.81 trillion, marking a 9.5 per cent increase from the ₹6.21 trillion allocated in the 2024-25 Union Budget.

IMPRI Desk and Harsh V Pant
February 11, 2025

Modi-Trump Bonhomie Falls Short Amid Immigration Controversy

Insights, International Relations and Strategic Studies, Public Finances and Macroeconomics, Thematic Areas

Now Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to meet US president Donald Trump in the US. What could come out of it?

IMPRI Desk and TK Arun
February 11, 2025

The Broader Budgetary Course Cannot Be Overshadowed by Targeted Appeasement

Insights, Center for the Study for Finance and Economics, Economy and Infrastructure

There were high hopes from the just-presented Union budget 2025-26, given the challenges facing the economy. There have been consistent signs of a slowdown in the economy, rising unemployment and persisting high inflation.

IMPRI Desk
February 10, 2025

Budget 2025: Addressing the Job Crisis with Action, Not Rhetoric

Insights, Center for the Study for Finance and Economics, Economy and Infrastructure

The unemployment rate in the last five quarters, according to the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), has been hovering around 6.5 per cent of the labour force. This broad fact of the economy is often highlighted by the government to demonstrate that there is no immediate crisis in employment generation.

IMPRI Desk
February 10, 2025