Opinion

Conceived in 2022 as a clearing-house for central-bank digital currencies (CBDCs), mBridge had anchored the BIS’s own work towards a global interbank settlement system to connect CBDCs beyond the control…

Assad has long been a cornerstone of India’s West Asia strategy. In a statement issued on 9 December, the Ministry of External Affairs emphasized the importance of preserving Syria’s sovereignty…

Most of these new policies made economic sense, and like many other progressives, I thought they made political sense as well. What, then, accounts for Vice-President Kamala Harris’s disappointing electoral…

It is an idea constructed by sophisticated American intellectual systems, and the idea has two parts. One is that the Russian state succeeded in influencing US elections by manipulating public…

As India rolls out a digital border and e-gates, the United Kingdom phases out passport stamps, and the European Union rolls out its Entry/Exit Scheme (EES), the importance of allowing…

This is important, as there has been a growing clamour for an immediate repo rate cut as growth had slowed down in the second quarter of 2024-25. The central bank…

This CoP was labelled the “finance CoP" on the expectation of reviewing the finance goal set 15 years ago at Copenhagen (2009), of raising $100 billion annually by 2020, to…

This paradigm shifted with the introduction of the IBC, which provided a much-needed mechanism to address insolvency issues in a time-bound and efficient manner. Passed in May 2016, it has…

India ranks as the third most polluted country globally and has the worst air quality among major economies. Many Indian cities regularly top global lists of the most polluted urban…

With the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) reshaping the continent’s economic landscape, Mauritius’s strategic importance to India is expected to grow. The relationship between India and Mauritius is rooted…