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    India and its Eastern neighbours: prospects for sub-regional cooperation

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015
    South Asia is the fastest growing region in the world. The combined economy of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is the third largest in the world in terms of GDP (PPP), with US and China ahead. SAARC countries make up around 21 percent of the total world population with around 1.7 billion people.
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    Dynamics of well irrigation systems and CO2 emissions in different agroecosystems of South Central India

    Current Science, 2015
    This study was undertaken to assess the carbon dioxide emissions for different irrigation systems, in the context of growing demand for adaption of pressurised irrigation with electric pumps in South Central India. The paper argues that water application systems under wells extracting groundwater are one of the major factors influencing climate change in the agricultural sector.
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    The institutionalisation of climate policy in India: designing a development-focused, co-benefits based approach

    Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, 2015
    This paper examines climate policy in India, its coordination, design and implementation.
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    The Contingent Reserve Arrangement: a redesign of the International Monetary System

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2015
    The BRICS countries established the New Development Bank (NDB) and the Contingent Reserve (CRA) Arrangement at their sixth Summit at Fortaleza, Brazil on 15 July 2014. This policy brief examines the implications of the CRA both for the international monetary system (IMS) and how far it meets the needs of the individual BRICS countries. It looks at:
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    Access, equity and inclusion: ethical norms and S&T policy outcomes

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2015
    India embarked upon utilising Science and Technology (S&T) for national development in a big way with the formulation of the First Five Year Plan. Since then S&T has been at the core of India’s development discourse and there is a consensus on the key role of S&T in nation’s socio-economic development.
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    Reconfiguring international financial institutions: the BRICS Initiative

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2015
    This paper examines the implications of the establishment of the New Development Bank (NDB) and the Contingent Reserve Arrangement (CRA) for the international financial system and for the BRICS countries.
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    India and APEC: an appraisal

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2015
    The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ( APEC) forum, a premier regional institution promoting trade, investment and other linkages among economies of the Asia-Pacific region, has just celebrated twenty five years of its establishment. India is not a member of  APEC, but has close political, economic and strategic ties with many of its economies.
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    ‘Clean India!’ Miles to go before we sweep?

    Institute of South Asian Studies, 2015
    India’s urban population increases at about 2.5 per cent a year and will be close to 500 million by the next census in 2021. Urban sewage systems have to deal with nearly twice as much human waste as a generation ago. Sewers and water management have not kept pace.
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    Strengthening rule of law responses to counter violent extremism: what role for civil society in South Asia?

    Institute of South Asian Studies, 2015
    Violence and extremism in South Asia, including potential threats posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), remain a concern for many regional and international observers. Three South Asian countries—Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India—are among those with the highest reported incidents of terrorism.
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    Is Indian development cooperation taking a new direction under Modi?

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    Rising powers such as the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) are taking independent stands and changing the discourse on development cooperation in international fora. India has played a key role in driving this, most recently contributing to the establishment of the BRICS Development Bank and being nominated to host its first presidency.

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