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India is a fast-growing, demographically advantaged power pursuing deliberate multi-alignment — simultaneously inside the Quad, SCO, BRICS, and I2U2 — a structural foreign policy choice that analysts variously read as sophisticated sovereignty maximization or unreliable hedging that will buckle under real US-China pressure. Beneath the headline 7.6% growth rate lie sharp tensions the briefing cannot fully resolve: whether extreme wealth concentration (top 1% holding over 40% of national wealth) and stagnant R&D spending (0.6% of GDP, unchanged since 1993) represent transitional friction or structural ceilings on India's ambitions. The briefing's most underweighted gap is the labor and redistributive dimension — whether India's strategic value to partners depends on maintaining, rather than dismantling, the low-wage and informal-work conditions that make it competitively attractive.
Decrease 38 out of 100 points (2024) (rank 96th) · Increase ~610 million (2025) · Increase 42.1% employment rate · Infrastructure: 13% · Agriculture: 44% · Industry: ...
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The demographic dividend is the potential economic growth a country can enjoy as a result of shifts in its population's age structure. India ...
Analysis of the most powerful countries around the world, based on various factors such as military strength, economic influence, and diplomatic power.
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India has made remarkable pro gress in the twenty- first century as it works toward advancing its education and health outcomes.
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This mid-decade review of contemporary Great Power competition is most welcome because it presents U.S. political leadership and the ...
As tensions escalate between the United States and China, India's long-standing policy of strategic autonomy is increasingly under strain.
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The results show that 1.1 billion of 6.3 billion people live in acute multidimensional poverty, over half of them children. Common deprivations ...
Thailand and Cambodia clashed along their disputed border. So, too, did Afghanistan and Pakistan. An exchange of fire between India and Pakistan ...
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Under Narendra Modi, India is maintaining the trappings of democracy while it increasingly harasses the opposition, attacks minorities, and stifles dissent.
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This paper discusses the author's argument regarding India's strategy to become a regional hegemony in the South Asian region. As a country with fairly high ...
Soft power turns cultural appeal into diplomatic goodwill, as countries admired for their creativity are seen as trustworthy partners rather ...
The top 10% of the Indian population holds 77% of the total national wealth. 73% of the wealth generated in 2017 went to the richest 1%, while *670 million ...
The Partnership will expand relationships in areas such as maritime security, cyber defence and counterterrorism. But it also bears a significant weight
In 2025, an important structural reform milestone was achieved, with the long-pending labor codes—tabled four years earlier and delayed by ...
An annual growth rate of 12–14 percent is well beyond the capacity of the industrial sector [and an expectation] to build capabilities for such a quan- tum jump ...
As the Knowledge Partner for this year's “India Skills Re- port,” Taggd brings invaluable intelligence on workforce trends, skill gaps, and hiring patterns ...
In 2025, the agriculture industry will face continued challenges with net farm income likely to be similar to 2024, which itself was a material reduction from ...
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Moreover, the pandemic has revealed sharp inequalities in access to digital technology, especially in regards to school education, finance, and ...
India's youth unemployment rate (ages 15–29) has rose to 15.2% in March 2026 from the lows of 13.8% in April 2025. Within this group, female ...
India's efforts to bring about a systematic transition to multipolarity at the United Nations will aim to change the balance of power dynamics.
The Brookings Foreign Policy program is the leading center of policy-relevant scholarship exploring the major challenges to international peace and security.
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India's semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem continues to expand in 2026, with 13 approved semiconductor projects operational or under ...
India 2025. The human rights situation sharply deteriorated as authorities continued their assault on dissent. Sedition and anti-terror laws were used to ...
According to a World Bank report, India has only 4% of the world's freshwater resources to meet the needs of 18% of the world's population. The ...
“Culture has become one of the last elements of our identity. We have to act in favour of cultural diversity abroad as well as at home.
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How supply chains need to adapt to a shifting global landscape. Made in China 2025: Progress and pitfalls. When first announced in 2015, Made ...
(The 2025 report said India's billionaire wealth is holding steady.) Their collective wealth is reported to be in the range of Rs 98 lakh crore, ...
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