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Cover image: Primary school students in a learning session, Delhi. Image credit: British Asian Trust.

Report

From evidence to scale: Lessons learned from the Quality Education India Development Impact Bond

Emily Gustafsson-Wright, Sarah Osborne, and Aditi Shankar

Monday, November 14, 2022

Flooded roads after heavy monsoon rains, in Pushkar, India on July 26, 2022. Most of the parts of Rajasthan have recorded above-average rainfall in this Monsoon season so far. According to the data of the Meteorological Department, the pre-monsoon and monsoon rainfall in the state has been 53 per cent more than the average. Meanwhile, average rainfall was recorded above normal in 25 out of the 33 districts, according to news agency PTI. Good rains have also been recorded in the Thar desert area, which has brought smiles to the faces of farmers and livestock animal rearers. Photo by ABACAPRESS.COM

Planet Policy

It is unfair to push poor countries to early zero carbon emissions

Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Two Indian women working

Future Development

Why has female labor force participation risen in Bangladesh but fallen in India?

Friday, October 14, 2022

The future of outcomes-based financing: Transforming results for children

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT

New York, New York

Reports

Report

2 years after the National Education Policy passage: What are social media users in India saying?

Lauren Ziegler, Ruchika Bhatia, and Rebecca Winthrop

Monday, July 11, 2022

A young woman in India talks to her mentor on the phone.

Report

Unlocking young women’s economic potential through digital mentoring in India

Arundhuti Gupta

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Dr. S. Jaishankar, India External Affairs Minister of India, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the sideline of the G20 Summit in Rome, Italy, on Sunday Oct 31, 2021. They discuss efforts to strengthen Indo-Pacific cooperation bilaterally and through the Quad. I look forward to working together to deepen the U.S.-India Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership, according to Blinken statement.

South Asia

Major power rivalry in South Asia

October 2021

A girl in India uses a computer for onlline learning

Report

Ed tech and educational opportunity during the COVID-19 school closures

Emiliana Vegas, Sheral Shah, and Brian Fowler

Monday, August 23, 2021

India health care

Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Making waves in India: Media and the COVID-19 pandemic

Mudit Kapoor and Shamika Ravi

Friday, July 23, 2021

Blog Posts

Mobile,Privacy,,App,That,Tracking,All,User,Behaviors,For,Marketing,

Future Development

Give people control of their data

Siddharth Tiwari

Thursday, September 8, 2022

Rural Indian woman and daughter using a laptop

Education Plus Development

The power of community as a catalyst to tackle disrupted learning

Rukmini Banerji and Asif Saleh

Thursday, June 9, 2022

Education Plus Development

Starting conversations on social and emotional learning with parents and teachers is critical for building family engagement

Emily Markovich Morris and Rini D’Souza

Tuesday, May 31, 2022

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Events

India’s economic prospects and role in the world economy

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

NATO 2030: A keynote address by Jens Stoltenberg

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

The future of US alliances in the Indo-Pacific: A conversation with Senator Tammy Duckworth

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM EST

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Policymaker's Journal (Simon & Schuster, 2021)

Policymaker’s Journal: From New Delhi to Washington DC

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Cvr: Fateful Triangle

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By Tanvi Madan

2020

JFK’s Forgotten Crisis

By Bruce Riedel

2017

Experts

Tanvi Madan

Director - The India Project

Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Project on International Order and Strategy

Bruce Riedel

Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

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Multimedia

A man works at India's booth during China International Fair for Trade in Services in Beijing, China, May 27, 2019. REUTERS/Jason Lee

Podcast Episode

Why globalization is shifting in favor of India, not China

Arvind Subramanian and David Dollar

Monday, April 18, 2022

Flags of USA and China

Asia & the Pacific

What does the US-China Alaska summit mean for India and the Quad?

Tanvi Madan, Sriram Lakshman, and Ananth Krishnan

The Hindu

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

US President Joe Biden (L) and Secretary of State Antony Blinken (R) meet virtually with their counterparts in the ÔQuad,Õ Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia, and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga of Japan, from the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington DC, USA, 12 March 2021. No Use Germany.

Podcast Episode

What does the Quad summit signal for U.S. engagement in the Indo-Pacific?

Tanvi Madan and Adrianna Pita

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

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More on India

Taliban fighters stand guard while people wait to receive sacks of rice, as part of humanitarian aid sent by China to Afghanistan, at a distribution centre in Kabul, Afghanistan, April 7, 2022. REUTERS/Ali Khara

China’s and India’s realpolitik relations with the Taliban regime

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Tuesday, September 13, 2022

FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: Workers unload coal from a supply truck at a yard on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India October 12, 2021. REUTERS/Amit Dave/File Photo

For energy, it’s not renewable vs coal — adopt a portfolio approach

Monday, August 29, 2022

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shakes hands with Indian External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar following a U.S.-India higher education dialogue at the Howard University Founders Library in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 12, 2022. Stefani Reynolds/Pool via REUTERS

Reflections on the “other crisis” of 1962: China and India

Orbis Summer 2022

A woman goes through the process of eye scanning for Unique Identification (UID) database system in the outskirts of the western Indian city of Ahmedabad February 13, 2013. The UID database, known as Aadhaar, will help directly transfer budget-busting subsidies to the poor, plugging in leakages in welfare spending. Picture taken February 13, 2013. To match INDIA-BUDGET/ REUTERS/Amit Dave (INDIA - Tags: BUSINESS SOCIETY)

Lessons from India’s attempt to marry biometric and voter ID databases

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

A woman washes clothes outside her house at a slum in New Delhi, India.

Raising the standard: Time for a higher poverty line in India

Surjit S. Bhalla, Karan Bhasin, and Arvind Virmani

Thursday, April 14, 2022

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks to media at the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo on February 27, 2022. Kishida speaks about Ukraine crisis.The Japanese government decided to add economic sanctions on Russia. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun )

How Asian countries are reacting to the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Ryan Hass, Patricia M. Kim, Tanvi Madan, Mireya Solís, and Andrew Yeo

Monday, March 21, 2022