Category Insights

Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.

Realizing Strategic Potential of Andaman & Nicobar

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

An exclusive ₹5,650 crore military infrastructure development plan was finalized in 2019 to strengthen the capacity of the Andaman and Nicobar Command, providing for the stationing of additional military forces, warships, aircraft, missile batteries, and infantry soldiers at the islands. Parallelly, a comprehensive plan for “force accretion” at the Andaman and Nicobar Command by 2027 is also being nurtured, involving a phased increase in Army manpower and assets through an improvement of the existing 108 Mountain Brigade and a new infantry battalion, apart from other upgrades.

IMPRI, Harsh V Pant and Sohini Bose
January 21, 2023

Brazil Congress Attack, Polarization and a Message for Democracies

Insights, Center for International Relations and Strategic Studies

After a bitter campaign and closer-than-anticipated election results two months back, it had seemed that things were calming down in Brazil.

IMPRI, Harsh V Pant and Samriddhi
January 19, 2023

Is the Curse of Inflation Over?

Insights, Center for the Study for Finance and Economics

The upcoming budget, the government’s priority should be not just the lowering of the rate of inflation but steadying the prices of essential items that the poor consume.

IMPRI, Arun Kumar and Samriddhi
January 19, 2023

A Socio-Economic Analysis of Health Seeking Behaviour of Women and their Employment Status in Urban India

Insights

According to the Periodic Labour Force Survey of April-June, 2020, the labour force participation of women in urban areas (age above 15 years) was 19.6. According to International Labour Organization (ILO), in 2021 it was 22.3.

IMPRI and Samriddhi
January 17, 2023

Indian Rural Economy: A Closer Look at the Issues

Insights, Center for the Study for Finance and Economics

This marginalization of the rural economy is a result of the policymakers’ focus being on the organized part — the modern part of the economy. Modernization of the economy has been taken to be the copying of western modernity. India has not attempted its own modernity suited to the needs of the vast majority living in rural areas. No wonder the agriculture sector which provides the most important item of consumption — food — has been marginalized.