How to create resilient agriculture
Economic growth with resilience to environmental threats will be central to the agenda of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in June this year, which aims to map out a pathway of...
View ArticleA tale of two very different summits
Summit diplomacy has become the coin of the realm. More and more key global and regional issues are thrashed out among heads of state and government, skipping the intermediaries. Professional diplomats...
View ArticleKick Argentina out of the G20? Absurd
Argentina’s partial renationalization of its oil company, Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales (YPF), has triggered a veritable frenzy of anti-Argentine sentiment. Ironically, this has been more...
View ArticleG20 Leaders Declaration
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View ArticleThe time for SAARC is now
December 8, 2012 marked the 43rd anniversary of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) – and reminded us yet again, of the unfulfilled promise of a regional bloc rich in its...
View ArticleReassessing Brent benchmark for crude oil
There is reason to believe that the Brent benchmark for global crude oil prices is being manipulated. This has serious implications for oil import dependent countries like India. The opaqueness of the...
View ArticleRBI and G20: Time to recalibrate?
Retrogressive as it may sound, the time might be right for the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to reconsider some regulatory measures introduced in recent years, especially those launched in the wake of...
View ArticleMulti-polar world, unilateral Fed
In late January, Raghuram Rajan, Governor of the Reserve Bank India (RBI), lamented that international monetary cooperation has broken down, noting that “industrial countries have to play a part in...
View ArticleG20 should facilitate talks on climate change
The time is right to place climate change at centre stage of the 2014 G20 leaders-group meeting in Australia. The G20 has a record of leadership on the international climate change agenda. With the...
View ArticleReconfiguring the role of business in G20
A powerful new fora for global business is emerging and it is called the B20. Business leaders were first invited to this forum at the G20 Finance Ministers’ meeting in Canada in 2010. Since then, the...
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