4 May 2021
Vikas Kathuria & Arul Scaria
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It is clear by now that universal access to vaccines depends upon cheap prices, and high scale and speed of production. Even if governments subsidise prices to make the vaccines cheap or ideally free of cost, at present, there are not enough vaccines to administer the critical mass of the population in poor- and middle-income…
2 Apr 2021
Samir Saran
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As Britain readies to host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow in November this year, there is a concerted effort to push countries towards publicly endorsing and adopting ‘Net Zero’—a carbon neutral emission norm—as policy. This is a demand for an inflexible, near-impossible, time-bound agenda to achieve what is…
19 Oct 2020
ORF
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The theory of punctuated equilibrium suggests that change and evolution, far from being gradual, occurs in short bursts of time, often accelerated by drastic and stressful external shocks. The outbreak of the novel coronavirus promises to do just that. The global response to the novel coronavirus will not only accelerate the process of digitalisation,…
7 Oct 2020
Andrew Pickens
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There are about 165 billion packages shipped in the United States every year. That’s 503 for every person in the country. With a few scrolls and clicks, an order is placed, and a fulfillment process is triggered. The product is zipped through a storage space on a conveyor belt, before being packaged and sorted for…
5 Oct 2020
Surya Kanegaonkar
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India is yearning to realise its potential as a leading destination on the global tourist heatmap and envisaging Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Bihar – states that have lagged on a infrastructure and HDI metrics for decades – as host to a thriving hospitality industry in the 21 st century requires a carefully calibrated bottom-up approach,…
24 Sep 2020
Ashwin Ahmad
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The recently held summit between China and the European Union showed all too well the souring of the relationship. From the European side, the inability of Beijing to offer ‘reciprocity’ and ‘basic fairness’ when it came to opening up the Chinese market to European goods was just part of the reason why the one day…
1 Sep 2020
Chitra Subramaniam
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It is not a Moody’s, but its power in Switzerland, an international centre for banking and financial advice and signals, is as substantial as it is understated. The Swiss Association for Responsible Investments SVVK has excluded four of India’s sterling companies – Tata Power, L&T, Bharat Dynamics and Walchandnagar Industries – in a nuclear weapons…