Childcare infrastructure

Childcare infrastructure needed to lift women’s employment

Women's workforce participation has risen, but childcare infrastructure remains a constraint because of the failure to enforce...
RDI Fund

RDI Fund puts India’s deep-tech financing model to test

Trade and sustainable development

Trade and sustainable development rules bring forests into FTA strategy

Private investment in research

Private investment in research needs institutional freedom

Private investment

Private investment revival will not solve India’s jobs problem

Private investment is returning, but its concentration in data centres and nuclear power raises questions about job...
Shrinking middle class India

Shrinking middle class calls for economic policy reset

Economic policy

Economic policy must build India’s strategic power

Super 301: US tariff

Super 301: US tariff gives India a narrow edge, at a price

Trade and sustainable development

Trade and sustainable development rules bring forests into FTA strategy

India’s Trade and sustainable development shift is moving forests into market access, export compliance and FTA negotiations.
Private investment in research

Private investment in research needs institutional freedom

MSME Bill

MSME Bill fixes dues, but skirts credit and infrastructure problems

Closing schools

Closing schools put the right to education at risk

Energy consumption policy

Energy consumption policy misreads consumer behaviour