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The Brookings Institution India Center serves as a platform for cutting-edge, independent, policy-relevant research and analysis on the opportunities and challenges facing India and the world. The Center is based in New Delhi, and registered as a company limited by shares and not for profit, under Section 25 of the Companies Act, 1956. Established in 2013, the Center is the third and newest overseas center of the Washington, D.C.-based Brookings Institution. Our work is centered on the Brookings motto of “Quality, Independence, Impact.”
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The Challenge of Decarbonizing Heavy Industry
(Brookings India, 2021-06-30)Industrial raw materials are key to our modern life. They are the building blocks of many products we use constantly, from buildings and infrastructure to ubiquitous plastic goods. Continuing economic growth, especially in the developing world, will ... -
Advancing Multilateralism in a Populist Age
(Brookings India, 2021-02-15)This paper looks at how multilateralists in the United States and Europe are thinking about strengthening a cooperative international order at a time when populism and nationalism are strong forces in many of the major powers. The paper distinguishes ... -
Global development cooperation in a COVID-19 world
(Brookings India, 2021-01-30)COVID-19 and the economic response have amplified and changed the nature of development challenges in fundamental ways. Global development cooperation should adapt accordingly. This paper lays out the urgency for new methods of development cooperation ... -
Neighbourhood First Responder: India's Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief
(Brookings India, 2020-08-18)The 2015 Nepal earthquake, one of the deadliest in its history, evoked an outpouring of support from the international community in the form of cash contributions, in-kind relief, and search and rescue operations. Among the quickest to respond was ... -
When Land Comes in the Way: India's Connectivity Infrastructure in Nepal
(Brookings India, 2020-08-13)Land acquisition for infrastructure projects abroad is one of the principal challenges the Indian government faces while pursuing its strategy of regional connectivity in South Asia. This paper examines two in-depth case studies on Indian-funded ... -
Travel South Asia: India's Tourism Connectivity with the Region
(Brookings India, 2020-07-30)Tourism is an important metric of a country’s soft power potential, marked by an increase in movement of people and enabling people-to-people connectivity. Over the last two decades, South Asia has emerged as an attractive tourist destination due to ... -
Mining and Jurisprudence: Observations for India’s mining sector to improve environmental and social performance
(Brookings India, 2020-06-30)Over the past decade, India’s mining sector, including the non-fuel mineral sector, has been marred by countless controversies. From violation and poor implementation of regulatory requirements pertaining to environmental protection and community rights, ... -
Skewed critical minerals global supply chains post COVID-19: Reforms for making India self-reliant
(Brookings India, 2020-06-05)The IEA Report (2020) provides a description of key challenges around global supply of select critical minerals. A justified tightening of labour and environment standards in Congo might impact cobalt production and downstream supply chains. In the ... -
DisComs post-COVID-19: Untangling the historical challenges, short-term needs, and long-term ambitions
(Brookings India, 2020-06-05)Electricity distribution companies (“DisComs”) are the linchpin of the electricity chain, but they have also been called the weakest link. Created starting in the late 1990s as part of electricity reforms, these were a part of the unbundling of the ... -
Falling Short of Addressing the Real Challenges: Comments and Analysis on the Draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020
(Brookings India, 2020-06-05)There are three major challenges that the power sector is facing. First, there are many features of the Electricity Act of 2003 (EA2003) that have not been implemented or are not working properly. The reasons for these failures must be understood and ...