Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.
Harsh V. Pant One year into office and the Biden Presidency is coming apart at the seams. Normally, United States (US) presidents enjoy a honeymoon period for a year, but Joe Biden’s leadership has been flailing since the disastrous withdrawal…
Tikender Singh Panwar There is widespread traction for an urban employment guarantee scheme, similar to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), in the urban spectrum. This demand comes not just from youth organizations but also from workers’…
TK Arun Budget 2022-23 gambles that investment-led growth would alleviate the economic distress wrought by the pandemic and an economy that was slowing desperately even before that, and, to that end, pursues growth rather than relief and doles with its…
Arun Kumar Much was expected from the Union Budget 2022 which has come at a time when the Indian economy is facing economic turmoil due to the coronavirus pandemic and battling widespread unemployment and inflation. High hopes were pinned on…
Santosh Mehrotra In the absence of any vision document (for example, a five-year plan) put out by the current Union government, the annual budget is supposed to provide direction to the country and the government’s own departments about the priorities…
Harsh V. Pant and Ayajz Wani Since 1991, New Delhi’s ties with the Central Asian countries have developed slowly despite a shared culture and trade links via the ancient Silk Road The first virtual engagement between Prime Minister Narendra Modi…
Anil Trigunayat The Houthis have been at war with the US-backed Saudi-UAE-led Sunni coalition of nine countries since 2015 when they chased the Abd Abu Mansour Hadi government out. This led to much consternation in Saudi Arabia, which was already…