Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.
Harsh V. Pant Xi has sounded the bugle that Taiwan will continue to be the most important fault line in his global engagement. The rest of the world, including India, must assess the implications of this development with a degree…
Anil Trigunayat India was probably the first country that not only supported the decolonization of Africa and Asia but established defense training institutes in several countries while providing them with requisite logistical and instructional material and assistance. Moreover, India has…
The frequency of extreme weather events has been increasing. Ferocious cyclones, severe droughts and floods, wildfires, melting glaciers, and polar ice caps are reported too frequently. The world needs to consider an alternative development path, and Gandhi can be one starting point.
The latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) attributes slowing growth to three reasons: the war in Ukraine, inflation that induces the world’s central banks to raise policy rates, and supply disruptions in a China still obsessed with Zero Covid.
As the 20th Communist Party of China congress unfolds October 16-22, there’ll be global scrutiny of the official reports, political gestures and statements made there. Much of this process is shrouded in mystery and intrigue, but it has consequences for the world.
In the 1980s, Rajiv Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India, had said that for every rupee targeted towards welfare and poverty alleviation only a fraction, 15 paise, reached the intended beneficiary. Although, with the wider penetration of Aadhaar-linked bank accounts, the reach of direct benefit schemes has increased, the gap is still high. The problem starts from the lack of awareness of different schemes, cumbersome procedures and documentation, and corruption.
UN Secretary General Guterres in his opening remarks at the start of the UN General Session in September 2022, cautioned the world about global dysfunction and how nations are not tackling the big challenges facing it. The caution was not a day too soon given the unprecedented floods that had occurred then in Pakistan and parts of India. Extreme weather events are linked to climate change which in turn is caused by rising pollution due to growing consumerism