Tax-burden on India’s GDP to rise further, hitting consumption and savings
Our Energy and Environment Fellow, Amit Bhandari was interviewed by the Business Standard. Read the article here.
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Gateway House Webcast: India’s Corona Diplomacy
In this webcast, we discuss India's Diplomacy during the COVID-19 pandemic with David Rasquinha, Managing Director, Exim Bank, Amb. Rajiv Bhatia, Distinguished Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies Programme, Gateway House and Nayanima Basu, ThePrint.
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Global PEs, VCs including SoftBank, Warburg Pincus ask government for clarity on new FDI rule
Our report Chinese Investments in India was featured in CNBC TV 18. Read the article here.
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Lessons from the Bombay Plague
To tackle Covid19 the Indian government has invoked the colonial-era Epidemics Act of 1897, originally enacted to tackle the Bombay Plague of 1896. The plague wreaked havoc across Bombay and presented some of the same challenges the government faces today, including a migrant labour exodus. History teaches by examples - here is a glance in to the past
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Global spread of remote working solutions
COVID19 has forced a sharp increase in the adoption of remote working solutions across the world. Zoom’s daily participants have risen from 10 million in December 2019 to 300 million in April 2020. Microsoft Teams’ daily active users have risen by 70% in the two months since March 2020. ‘Work from home’ may well be the norm for the foreseeable future. A look at the global proliferation of the top 26 online apps to date.
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China’s influence over the UN
The COVID19 crisis has thrown into stark relief the strategic influence China wields across various agencies of the United Nations, especially the WHO. This raises the question - will the UN, as an important supra-governmental body, be able retain impartiality in the post-covid world order?
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Can India’s FDI policy change work to its advantage while affecting investment from China?
Our report Chinese Investments in India was featured in Times Now. Read the article here.
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Breaking Views: Raising Oil & Alcohol Prices a Short-Sighted Step?
Our Energy and Environment Fellow, Amit Bhandari was interviewed by The Quint. Read the article here.
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Taxing our return to the 70s
The government’s short-term approach to tax planning brings in immediate revenues but has the long-term downfall of driving away business, and encouraging tax evasion. No country has taxed its way to prosperity and India is no exception.
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India’s curb on Chinese investment will leave ‘void’ in start-up scene, experts say
Our report Chinese Investments in India was featured in the South China Morning Post. Read the article here.