Commentary
The United States and many other countries have rushed to send aid to India as the country battles the coronavirus pandemic. But U.S. President Joe Biden needs to focus his administration’s attention on unblocking the congested vaccine supply chain further downstream.
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Q&A
India has suffered a devastating new wave of infection from the coronavirus pandemic. As the country races to vaccinate its huge population, what challenges does it face?
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Commentary
The COVID-19 crisis in India is devastating. The Biden administration must consider exceptions to the Defense Production Act and ease the global vaccine supply chain.
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Event
This session convened scientists and industry experts to discuss the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on India’s biotechnology industry and prospects of its future growth. It highlighted lessons that India can learn to build a robust research ecosystem to respond to future disease outbreaks.
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Vaccine development is a long and complex process that often takes many years of work by both public and private researchers. This workshop assessed the changes in the vaccine development process as well as the challenges of proper deployment.
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Sustainable post- COVID economic recovery in India will require an efficient resolution system. This workshop will examine the need for strengthening India’s institutional infrastructure for insolvency and bankruptcy in the wake of India’s economic slowdown.
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Multimedia
Professor S. Irudaya Rajan joins Srinath Raghavan as they unpack the issues that plague India's remittance economy. They analyze the coronavirus pandemic's impact on remittance income from a national and regional perspective and try to chart the future of this institution in a post-pandemic world.
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Event
The webinar seeks to explore the incidents that catalyse reform in police culture and practices across countries, albeit with varying degrees of success. What kind of events hold the potential to be disruptive junctures, and how does the process of police reform get initiated?
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Multimedia
Chinmay Tumbe joins Srinath Raghavan as they discuss India’s migrant crisis. They assess its implications on India's domestic and urban labor markets, and what the crisis holds for India's long-standing traditions of internal migration.
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Multimedia
In this episode, Srinath Raghavan speaks to Bhargavi Zaveri as they unpack India's Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC). They examine how India's existing regulatory framework might fare for bankruptcies arising against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Event
This webinar seeks to explore the kinds of technology available to the police, its integration into the system — and how they can be used to safeguard the public, without infringing on rights and freedoms.
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Op-Ed
The pandemic has enabled the central government to implement far-reaching reforms in areas such as agriculture, traditionally considered to be the domain of states.
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Multimedia
Four months after the first lockdown, Srinath Raghavan is joined by Pranjul Bhandari as they assess how India's macroeconomic responses have aged through the pandemic.
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Event
A Carnegie India - Tata Trusts Initiative: Given the police's front-facing task of containing the spread of the coronavirus, what role do the long-held traditions of the force, its internal culture, training, and practice play in how the police manages its public interactions?
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Event
The coronavirus pandemic has re-emphasized the need for evidence-backed research in tackling health, economic, and socio-political issues in India, and across the world. In an increasingly saturated information space, how can we ensure that cogent steps are taken during times of crises?
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Q&A
The coastal state of Kerala in south India has used a unique strategy to halt the coronavirus. By deploying police to support and inform people—for example, by arranging home delivery of essential goods to people in quarantine—it has flattened the curve.
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Op-Ed
Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi recently announced that India must become Atmanirbhar (self-reliant).
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Event
An overwhelming majority of labor in India works in the informal sector without adequate social security. Simultaneously, the inflexibility of labor regulation prevents Indian firms from growing through labor expansion, incentivizing investments in capital instead.
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Multimedia
Srinath Raghavan is joined by Ashley J. Tellis as they discuss the origins and nature of the current Sino-Indian border confrontation. They situate the crisis in the context of broader geopolitical developments and assess its impact on Sino-Indian ties.
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Commentary
Although India holds strategic reserves of crude oil and food, it entered the coronavirus pandemic with severe shortages of essential medical equipment.
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Op-Ed
China’s foreign minister Wang Yi finally admitted late last month that the Covid-19 pandemic has severely slowed down Beijing’s flagship foreign policy project, the Belt and Road Initiative.
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Multimedia
Given the current global economic situation, the BRI and the Health Silk road are likely to come under stress, with many countries being unable to repay the loans taken from Chinese banks to finance these projects.
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Multimedia
To help take stock of India's pandemic strategy, Srinath Raghavan speaks to K. Sujatha Rao. They discuss the impact of India's nationwide lockdown, center-state public health relations, and the way forward.
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Multimedia
Srinath Raghavan and Himanshu discuss the state of India’s agrarian economy, agricultural reforms, and the impact of coronavirus on this crucial sector.
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Event
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to aggravate tensions between the U.S. and China, it has impeded multilateral coordination in tackling both public health and economic crises across the globe. India now finds itself in a pivotal position.
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Op-Ed
While the rest of the world is all hands on deck tackling the coronavirus pandemic, China has made a powerful move that might significantly strengthen its geopolitical influence in the global financial space.
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Multimedia
Srinath Raghavan is joined by Michael Pettis as they discuss the various facets of the Chinese economy and Beijing’s attempts to set itself on the path to economic recovery post-coronavirus.
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Event
The coronavirus pandemic coupled with a fragmented multipolar world has led to widespread disruptions in global trade and investment. Can India and the EU leverage their strong economic and security ties to deal with the evolving geo-political consequences of the pandemic?
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Event
The coronavirus pandemic has forced countries to close their borders to contain the spread of the virus. This has restricted the flow of goods and people, thereby exerting debilitating pressures on global supply chains.
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Article
After the coronavirus pandemic wanes, how will China’s reorientation of the Belt and Road Initiative to address global health concerns influence its relationships with South Asian countries?
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In South Asia, the coronavirus pandemic is at once a public health crisis, an economic crisis, and a humanitarian crisis.
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Multimedia
As India enters week 8 of its lockdown, the country's economy has reached a grinding halt. To better understand the impact of the pandemic – especially on the labor and household sectors– Srinath Raghavan speaks to Mahesh Vyas about the long-term repercussions of the lockdown on the Indian economy.
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Event
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has simultaneously exacerbated economic competition between countries, while also creating unique opportunities for countries to work together and lead multilateral responses to tackle the challenges stemming from the disease.
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Quick Take
Early in the outbreak, government researchers forecast several high-risk scenarios that were downplayed or ignored in public messaging.
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Multimedia
Srinath Raghavan speaks to Maja Daruwala, chief editor of the India Justice Report—a first-of-its-kind study—which assesses the state capacity of India’s police force and identifies key areas where reforms are most urgent.
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Op-Ed
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech on May 12 had two central messages: India will have to learn to live with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), and India must pivot towards economic recovery.
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Op-Ed
How does diplomacy work in the age of social distancing and coronavirus?
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Event
The coronavirus crisis has had a detrimental impact on India's Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector, which employs over 100 million people and contributes to almost 30 percent of India’s GDP.
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Op-Ed
India’s migrant workers have fallen through the cracks of its social security net, and government response has shown a significant gap between high-minded intentions reflected in existing laws and their implementation.
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Article
Governments around the world are turning to new forms of digital surveillance to monitor the spread of the coronavirus, though they are mostly using existing laws to do so.
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Multimedia
What is the impact of the "triple crisis"—health, economic, and humanitarian crises—that India is currently tackling, which stems from the rampant coronavirus pandemic, and the way forward?
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Event
Criticisms of the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 are acquiring increasing salience due to the use of technology-enabled surveillance and data collection techniques to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
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Op-Ed
As the Indian government prepares to gradually dial down the economic freeze on May 3, politics, too, must emerge from its hibernation.
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Event
The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on global markets has been swift and shocking, leading to the most severe economic disruption since the Great Depression.
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Multimedia
How will the coronavirus pandemic impact geopolitics and India's place in the global order?
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Multimedia
How has the coronavirus pandemic exacerbated the geopolitical and economic competition between the United States and China and their prospects for cooperation.
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Op-Ed
Large sections of India’s population are invisible to the state. That is why in crises like Covid and lockdown, we need one common social database.
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Event
Faced with the need to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic, governments around the world are increasingly turning to surveillance technologies that enable them to track the health and location data of citizens.
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Multimedia
What was the trajectory of COVID-19 in China and what lessons can India learn from China in its own fight against the pandemic?
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Multimedia
Most governments have leveraged existing powers to deploy surveillance techniques to fight COVID-19.
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Op-Ed
The description of the battle against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) as a “war” has graduated from an analogy to a metaphor.
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Event
As nations around the world close their borders, halt international trade, and craft national responses to limit the spread of the disease, the current crisis has reinforced nationalist rhetoric on economic protectionism and anti-immigration.
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Multimedia
How are different countries leveraging data in their fight against COVID-19 and what does privacy mean in a world engulfed by a pandemic?
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Multimedia
India's history offers certain instances from which we can learn both negative and positive lessons that highlight what type of issues public policy has to be alert to when dealing with these kinds of crises.
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Multimedia
In the face of the coronavirus outbreak, while many observers of global politics have proclaimed the end of globalization as we know it, international cooperation and the institutions that enable it have never seemed more crucial.
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Event
Recognizing the severity of the coronavirus pandemic, the Indian government announced a three-week nationwide lockdown until April 14, 2020.
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Multimedia
The coronavirus outbreak has been accompanied by an overabundance of information that makes it hard for people to find reliable sources of information.
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Commentary
As its number of coronavirus cases grows, India is just beginning to expand diagnostic and manufacturing capacities. The road ahead will be long.
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Multimedia
What are the grave social and economic implications of the coronavirus pandemic for financial markets and its consequences for India?
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Quick Take
To contain the coronavirus, Modi has aimed to instill a strong sense of purpose in both the government and the public. The crisis may also afford India a moment for greater global leadership.
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Multimedia
India can tackle COVID-19 by focusing on flattening the curve and mitigating economic and social hardships.
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Op-Ed
Although the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 is relatively small in India, 137 as of 17 March, most of the cases have been detected in the last two weeks. Experience suggests that this number will rise.
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Event
With cases of the novel coronavirus outbreak being confirmed in India, are we prepared to tackle it effectively?
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Quick Take
India’s teeming population, rickety public health system, and shared border with China make it vulnerable to the deadly coronavirus. How should the country prepare?
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