Authors Shreekant Gupta, Bishwanath Goldar, Shubham Dang, and Omer F. Baris ask whether financial markets distinguish between backsliding – a deterioration in environmental performance – and persistent underperformance.

The digital divide persists, especially along gender, geographic and generational lines. By combining the convening power of the public sector with private sector entrepreneurship, well-designed and executed public-private partnerships (PPPs) may bridge such gaps says Deepak Maheshwari.

This study evaluates whether incremental RE can meet aggregate demand growth, examining time-of-day variations, asking if this can avoid higher fossil fuel use.

Response to the Department of Economics Affairs’ Public Consultation on the Draft Framework for India’s Climate Finance Taxonomy.

This commentary, emerging from the Regional World Health Summit in New Delhi (April 2025), examines how countries in South and Southeast Asia are responding to these pressures through enhanced regional cooperation. The authors identify five key pathways for strengthening collective health governance.

This policy brief by Riya Sinha and Giulia Tercovich examines how the EU’s Global Gateway and India’s regional connectivity vision can be aligned to advance shared priorities in the Indo-Pacific.

Published in the Indian Public Policy Review journal, this paper extends the methodologies developed in earlier papers to critically examine capital expenditure (capex) reporting practices in India.

The policy brief focuses on regional cooperation mechanisms, including the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) and the Bay of Bengal Large Marine Ecosystem Project (BOBLME), write Pooja Ramamurthi & Riya Sinha for the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies.

India has committed to ambitious targets, aiming to achieve net-zero emissions by 2070; however, this transition away from fossil fuels presents significant fiscal and institutional challenges, that warrant careful examination.

The pace of change in Asian geopolitics is accelerating. What role will India play in a rebalanced Asian system? - Shivshankar Menon writes for the Lowy Institute.

This report is a collaborative effort by Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP), Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation (SSEF).

This paper was published in the Asian Economic Policy Review (AEPR), edited by Takatoshi Ito, Kazumasa Iwata, Colin McKenzie and Shujiro Urata. AEPR is the journal of the Japan Center for Economic Research.

This paper was published in the Asian Economic Policy Review (AEPR), edited by Takatoshi Ito, Kazumasa Iwata, Colin McKenzie and Shujiro Urata. AEPR is the journal of the Japan Center for Economic Research.

This report by Riya Sinha examines Australia and India’s engagement across various stages of port development in the Bay of Bengal, particularly in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Myanmar, extending beyond port construction and including port operations and logistics.

The present paper is concerned with shedding light on the financial viability of setting up public charging infrastructure in a range of implementation situations in an Indian city and the possible role of policies and regulations to make charging business attractive.

Riya Sinha writes about the South Asia Regional Infrastructure Connectivity (SARIC) framework for the United States Studies Centre.

In this EPW article, Shishir Gupta, Nandini Agnihotri and Annie George shed light on the state and dynamics of house prices in India by leveraging a unique dataset that gives house prices over the past 30 years.

The paper examines the issues in adapting flexible inflation targeting (FIT) for emerging markets. This framework is crucial for analysing the evolution and performance of FIT in India.

This paper assesses the feasibility of India achieving its stated objective of getting to net zero carbon emissions by 2070 and outlines a possible strategy for the next 10 years consistent with this goal.

Given the rise in the government debt level in recent times, this paper aims to examine the effect of an increase in government size on risk premium and its transmission in the economy.

The authors argue that there is a need to extend and facilitate access to the ultimate global financial safety net layer: the IMF. We illustrate that by pointing out how Morocco and Mexico have boosted their defensive power by having access to IMF precautionary lines of ...

This study explores the relationship between economic growth and non-income components (health and education) of the Human Development Index (HDI) for 26 Indian states during the period from 1990 to 2019.

Pricing carbon, either directly or indirectly, provides a price incentive to producers to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, it is important to examine the impact of such governmental policies on the economy, emissions, and particularly households, who will bear the incidence of such taxes.

This paper focuses on tax buoyancy, which includes discretionary policy changes, to examine how the historical relationship of tax revenues with income may have been disturbed by exceptional shocks.

This report has been launched by Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) with an aim to present varied views from APF Canada-affiliated experts on Indo-Pacific Strategy and encourage an understanding of Canada's evolving role in the region.

Constantino Xavier's essay offers a policy roadmap to enable Sweden and India to implement joint development cooperation initiatives in third countries in the Indian Ocean region and East Africa.

This essay examines India’s energy security in the short and medium term and finds that development needs will drive the country’s energy policy, which balances energy security with the energy transition.

Anoop Singh, Bernard Snoy and Michel Camdessus analyse the need to reform the international monetary system.

The policy brief from the Task Force on Climate, Development and the IMF proposes a ‘loss and damage package’ at the IMF that spans its surveillance, lending toolkit and global policy coordination.

Shruti Gupta and Kevin James examine the regulatory framework and institutional gaps surrounding off-budget borrowings in India. It attempts to build a comprehensive understanding on the methods used for such borrowings and ascertains their true extent.

Marty Shwarz and Rahul Tongia examine the performance of wind power across climatology, technology, and location.

Abstract India’s coal-heavy electricity system is the world’s third largest and a major emitter of air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Consequently, it remains a focus of decarbonisation and air pollution control policy. Considerable heterogeneity exists between states in India in terms of electricity demand, generation ...

This analysis provides valuable guidance about the development of the power sector and the costs associated with different development pathways.

The results of this research describe the challenging technological and policy advances needed to achieve the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement.

The paper separates motivation as a distinct factor for analysis because, in the absence of strong incentives, not every political opportunity may lead to attention to an issue, and finds that reforms were motivated by a need to gain political legitimacy by an incoming regime, or ...

The questions this paper answers are: what is the impact of mandatory disclosure of housing quality on prices? Do mandatory disclosures have differential impact across housing sub-markets and income groups?

This paper investigates the impact of counter-cyclical capital Buffer (CCyB) as a macro-prudential policy, on bank credit risk, during uncertain times, as banking sector stability is crucial in promoting financial intermediation.

The paper looks at the key areas in which India needs Public Financial Management (PFM) reforms, building on the provisions of a draft PFM law prepared by an expert group and cited by the Fifteenth Finance Commission.

Anit Mukherjee examines a possibly pernicious effect of a civilian dominated defence ministry and highlights the importance of expertise in enhancing both control and military effectiveness.

In this paper, using data from a large emerging economy, Ashima Goyal and Abhishek Kumar identify a structural shock (inflation shock) that explains the maximum forecast error variance of consumer prices

Jharkhand Mining Summit hosted by PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

The authors use time-varying VAR models to study the effects of option-implied measures of equity and bond market volatilities on the government bond term premium and key macroeconomic variables.

Rahul Tongia's study presents results from the first-of-a-kind model to handle high uncertainty, which uses parametric analysis instead of stochastic analysis for grid balancing based on economic despatch through 2030, covering 30-min resolution granularity at a national level.

Sahil Gandhi, Richard K Green and Shaonlee Patranabis look at the paradox of high vacancy rates and homelessness in Indian cities.

CSEP President and Distinguished Fellow Rakesh Mohan at the Future of Climate & Development, hosted by the Task Force on Climate, Development and the International Monetary Fund.

CSEP Research Associate Ganesh Sivamani presented the paper co authored with Senior Fellow Rajesh Chadha, on critical minerals and green technologies at the 25th Annual Conference on Global Trade Analysis.

India’s power generation is a large source of greenhouse gas emissions. The authors quantify current and future marginal emissions factors for power generation in India across seasons, times-of-day, and states.

Shivshankar Menon discusses history in the Indian tradition, the history that is current in India, some common current historical tropes, and why it matters. In the process it seeks to draw some real lessons of India’s history for our national security.

This policy brief focuses on one very specific element: the question of how a meaningful participation of Asian, African, and Latin American democracies can best be encouraged and ensured. The paper offers 5 ideas for maximizing their future involvement.

Our results indicate that while SWM expenditure per capita is positive and statistically significant at 1% level, waste generation is completely insignificant, argues Shishir Gupta and Rishita Sachdeva.

Anoop Singh and Kevin James and others discuss ways to improve India's human capital indicators.

This paper reviews how regionalism is making a comeback in the Bay of Bengal, the challenges of connectivity, and the opportunities and limitations of India’s new approach to BIMSTEC.