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Stronger Intellectual Property Reforms Are Quietly Rewiring India’s Trade Model

Stronger Intellectual Property Reforms Are Quietly Rewiring India’s Trade Model

Qayoom Khachoo, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade; Ridwan Ah Sheikh, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research; Pritam Banerjee, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT)

14 Jun 2026
How Municipal Elections Shape Work and Economic Mobility in Slums

How Municipal Elections Shape Work and Economic Mobility in Slums

Indranil De, Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA); Vidhya Unnikrishnan, Lancaster University Leipzig

12 Jun 2026
Why Community Response Time Is India’s Real Disaster Governance Test

Why Community Response Time Is India’s Real Disaster Governance Test

Dinesh Kumar Aswal, National Disaster Management Authority; Manish Bhardwaj, National Disaster Management Authority; Rajendra Singh, National Disaster Management Authority

10 Jun 2026
India’s Gender Policies Need Local Intelligence to Work

India’s Gender Policies Need Local Intelligence to Work

Sreerupa Sengupta, Goa Institute of Management; Divya Singhal, Goa Institute of Management; Ananya Chakraborty, World Resources Institute

09 Jun 2026
Why Treating Outdoor and Household Air Pollution as a Joint Problem Would Help India Maximise Gains

Why Treating Outdoor and Household Air Pollution as a Joint Problem Would Help India Maximise Gains

Paramita Sinha, RTI International; Emily Decker, RTI International; Rishi Dey, RTI International ...

08 Jun 2026
India Wants Sustainable Farming. Its Institutions Still Reward Pesticides

India Wants Sustainable Farming. Its Institutions Still Reward Pesticides

A. Amarender Reddy, ICAR-National Institute of Biotic Stress Management (NIBSM)

07 Jun 2026
India’s Critical Minerals Push Runs Through Its Mining Law Reform

India’s Critical Minerals Push Runs Through Its Mining Law Reform

Jayant Kumar Sahoo, NIT Rourkela

06 Jun 2026
Why India’s Clean Cooking Transition Looks Increasingly Fragile

Why India’s Clean Cooking Transition Looks Increasingly Fragile

Shelja, IIT Madras; Krishna Malakar, IIT Madras; Santosh Kumar Sahu, IIT Madras

05 Jun 2026
India’s Climate Opportunity Lies in Fixing Farm Incentives

India’s Climate Opportunity Lies in Fixing Farm Incentives

Lisa Mariam Varkey, International Rice Research Institute; Prakashan Chellattan Veettil, International Rice Research Institute

04 Jun 2026
India’s Non-Communicable Disease Control Hinges on Household-Level Risk

India’s Non-Communicable Disease Control Hinges on Household-Level Risk

Sarang Pedgaonkar, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS); Shubham Kumar, Population Council Consulting; Wahengbam Bigyananda Meitei, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) ...

03 Jun 2026
India’s Graduate Economy Needs a New Employment Compact

India’s Graduate Economy Needs a New Employment Compact

Apica Sharma, NITI Aayog; Arushi Agarwal, NITI Aayog

01 Jun 2026
How Heat Is Reorganising India’s Workday

How Heat Is Reorganising India’s Workday

Shobhit Kulshreshtha, Uppsala University, Sweden; Leena Bhattacharya, WageIndicator Foundation; Arthur van Soest, Tilburg University

31 May 2026

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