Category Insights

Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.

Withering away of India’s Demographic Dividend

Devender Singh “Let us recognise our demographic dividend. Our nation is young. The world needs skilled manpower.” – Prime Minister Narendra Modi, June 11, 2014. “It is critical to prepare the ‘demographic dividend’ of the country as per the demands…

Shinzo Abe & his India Connection

Harsh V. Pant Japan’s longest-serving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe died on 8 July 2022, hours after he was shot at a rally while campaigning for elections to Japan’s upper house. Abe was instrumental in shaping and strengthening India–Japan ties, and…

Abe leaves behind a formidable legacy

Harsh V. Pant & Shashank Mattoo Japan before Shinzo Abe seemed like a country adrift. Its economy, hamstrung by years of low growth and an aging population, was feared to be in terminal decline. China’s meteoric rise threatened its security…

Shinzo Abe & China

Srikanth Kondapalli China’s official response to the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as “shocking” and “unexpected incident” is at variance with the scorn being poured out on its rabid Communist Party-backed nationalist social networking sites. In some…

Defections and Democracy

TK Arun The Eknath Shinde government in Maharashtra is alive and kicking. So are the governments of Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka, both birthed out of the feeble bodies of previous governments that had been blown up. Clearly, the anti-defection law…

Talk to Us