September 23, 2025

This paper examines the impact of QCOs on India’s exports and imports for the affected products, drawing on insights from industry stakeholder consultations.

Carbon Taxes in India: Balancing Growth, Equity, and the Net-Zero Transition

Rajesh Chadha, Ganesh Sivamani & Rajat Verma

September 17, 2025

This study evaluates the introduction of a theoretical carbon tax in India and assesses how to balance economic growth, equity considerations, and emissions reduction.

Working Paper

Foreign Policy & Security

India and Global Triangular Climate Cooperation: Motivations, Institutional Models, and Policy Options

Pooja Ramamurthi

September 10, 2025

This paper seeks to decode India’s engagement in climate triangular cooperation (TrC) by exploring the role that triangular engagements play within India’s climate diplomacy, motivations that drive India and its partners to increase engagement in TrC and India’s policy options for expanding the impact and significance of its triangular engagements.

Working Paper

China

Semantics as Strategy: Interpreting China's Official Discourse on South Asia

Shruti Jargad & Constantino Xavier

September 4, 2025

This study explores Chinese narratives on South Asia with critical insights into how China perceives and communicates its role in the region. The paper uses discourse analysis to examine and interpret hundreds of mostly Chinese-language texts.

Report

Minerals & Mining

The India Copper Report: Navigating Through the Demand and Supply Gap

Rajesh Chadha & Tanima Pal

August 26, 2025

This report provides a comprehensive examination of the copper sector in India, highlighting its current status, strategic importance, and emerging vulnerabilities throughout the supply chain.

Working Paper

Climate Change

India’s Climate Finance Requirements: An Assessment

Rakesh Mohan & Janak Raj

August 21, 2025

This study follows a bottom-up approach to estimate the climate finance requirement of four key sectors—power, road transport, steel, and cement – accounting for over half of India’s carbon emissions.

Working Paper

Financial Sector & Development

Non-Performing Assets in Indian Banking in the 2010s: The Role of Infrastructure and Public-Private Partnerships

Rakesh Mohan & Divya Srinivasan

August 19, 2025

This study empirically analyses the impact of bank infrastructure financing on NPAs, investigating whether public sector banks (PSBs) are involved in poor lending decisions and exploring the structural risks inherent in infrastructure projects.

Blog

Macroeconomic Policy, Trade & Competitiveness

India’s Quality Control Orders: Understanding Key Trends

Prerna Prabhakar

September 24, 2025

A key challenge in evaluating QCOs has been the lack of systematic mapping between QCO regulations and their corresponding Harmonized System (HS) codes. To address this gap, an exercise was undertaken to map QCOs to unique HS codes. This blog by Prerna Prabhakar provides a snapshot of key QCO trends.

Blog

Foreign Policy & Security

China in South Asia: Three Things I Learned From Our Project

Constantino Xavier

September 3, 2025

Constantino Xavier shares three broad learnings from his collaborative work with Jabin Jacob from a project over the past three years; the 2023 report 'How China Engages South Asia: Themes, Partners and Tools' to the 2025 report 'How China Engages South Asia: In the Open and Behind the Scenes'.

Blog

Foreign Policy & Security

Decarbonising the Asian Giants: Comparing Indian and Chinese Models of Climate Action

Pooja Ramamurthi & Tejal Atul Karad

September 1, 2025

This blog by Pooja Ramamurthi and Tejal Atul Karad compares the national climate policies and goals set by the two countries and explores differences in governance and implementation models pursued by India and China.

Blog

Growth, Finance, Health & Human Development

India’s Climate Finance Requirements – Steel and Cement Overwhelm Power

Janak Raj & Rakesh Mohan

August 25, 2025

This blog is based on Janak Raj and Rakesh Mohan's latest study "India’s Climate Finance Requirements: An Assessment”.

Decoding India’s Quality Control Orders

Macroeconomic Policy, Trade & Competitiveness