economy

India’s Monsoon Deluge Reflects Intensifying Global Climate Emergency

From floods to heatwaves, cascading climate disasters expose mounting vulnerabilities demanding coordinated scientific and policy responses.

E20 debate reveals India’s uneven energy transition trade-offs

India’s ethanol push boosts energy security and farm incomes, but consumers remain unconvinced amid mileage and price concerns.

India’s GDP revisions explained: what changed and why it matters

India has revised its methodology for measuring economic growth after a decade. Better calculations matter, but the real test lies in how policymakers interpret them, and turn them into decisions that shape everyday life.

Thailand’s conservatives consolidate power after 2026 snap polls

Bhumjaithai’s election win and coalition deal signal a resurgence of establishment politics, shaped by border tensions, nationalist rhetoric and unresolved constitutional reform.

The cost of a schoolbook

In East Nusa Tenggara Indonesia, a 10-year-old boy’s suicide exposes the limits of income-based poverty metrics. Multidimensional data show that deprivation in Indonesia often clusters long before a family is officially classified as poor.

India’s climate diplomacy must account for domestic inequalities

Economic liberalization in India has shifted the emissions burden from more equal and developed states to less equal ones. This needs to change.

A rivalry too entangled to decouple

Unlike the Cold War standoff with the erstwhile Soviet Union, today’s US-China competition is constrained by shared production networks, mutual dependence, and the high costs of economic separation.

Why we still don’t know who the rich are in India

India has detailed systems for measuring poverty. But when it comes to wealth, the data goes dark. Understanding who the rich are is essential to building fairer taxation, climate policy, and social programs.

India’s tryst with strategic experimentation

For India, from universal suffrage to space research, progress has often begun as a gamble. In the new age of tariffs and tech rivalry, research suggests that the appetite for experimentation could be its key strategic asset.

Trump’s tariff playbook: McKinley’s ghost in a globalised world

The US president’s tariff strategy is inspired by 19th-century isolationism. But in an interconnected economy, affected countries can adapt by shifting supply chains and depreciating currencies, leaving US consumers to foot the bill