#WestBengal’s exports operate through a neighbourhood gateway serving #Bangladesh, #Nepal and #Bhutan, and a global niche economy built around products such as jewellery, tea, leather and marine goods. Each requires different public goods, making a one-size-fits-all export policy ineffective: @BardhanArya or-f.org/39848#Exports #TradePolicy #India

#India’s growth has added to produced capital, but natural capital has continued to decline while human capital has remained broadly flat. The challenge is to ensure rapid growth is matched by an expanding stock of produced, human, and natural capital: @soumyabh_swears or-f.org/40340

New evidence from developing Asia shows women-led firms are not excluded from global value chains—they are disproportionately present but clustered in lower-value segments. Sustaining inclusion now depends less on exports than on access to affordable finance: @soumyabh_swears or-f.org/39802 #GlobalValueChains #WomenEntrepreneurs

For developing economies, diversification is ultimately about expanding choice: more currencies, payment channels, sources of finance, trade routes, and economic partners. #BRICS 3.0 could test whether that optionality can become durable interoperability: @DrNilanjanG or-f.org/40543 #GlobalSouth

The most consequential outcome of the Modi-Takaichi summit may be the least reported: an exchange of letters between the International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) and Japan’s Financial Services Agency on regulation, supervision and FinTech. #Japan’s #India story is turning financial: @soumyabh_swears or-f.org/39865

#WestBengal has one of #India's highest rates of financial inclusion, with 95.3% of women holding usable bank accounts—a strong foundation that is presently underleveraged for formal job creation: @DrNilanjanG, @BardhanArya, Kumkum Mohata & @diyaashahz or-f.org/40347

Three separate studies (#OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) find the same thing: #AI deployment is wide but shallow. It shows up in 2/3 of occupations but touches only 1/5 of tasks within them. It's augmenting jobs, not replacing them — for now: @BardhanArya or-f.org/39875 #Economy

#India's recent #FTAs increasingly include provisions on MSMEs, #gender, and sustainable development. This brief by @sunaina_kumar & @soumyabh_swears examines how far these provisions translate into gains for smaller firms and women. or-f.org/40460

Smallholder #farmers are where most #agribusiness Scope 3 emissions begin. Treating them as partners rather than a supply risk is the most direct route up the S3PI ranking: @BardhanArya, @shoba_suri, Nitin Rao, Kritika Banerjee, Sjoerd Panhuysen, & Sumit Roy. Read the full report 👉 or-f.org/40658 #Scope3 #NetZero #ESG

#EconomicDiplomacy cannot compensate for a weak business environment. For investors, transparent policymaking, reliable infrastructure, lower logistics costs and easy access to land and electricity remain more fundamental than outreach alone: @AVIRAL96 or-f.org/40198 #India

For #WestBengal, export growth depends less on broad incentives and more on targeted interventions—from testing and certification to cold-chain infrastructure, technology upgrading and border facilitation—that reduce costs that individual firms, especially #MSMEs, cannot bear alone: @BardhanArya or-f.org/39848 #IndustrialPolicy #Trade #Exports

#India’s 7.8% GDP growth in Q1 2026-27 confirms strong momentum. But #GDP measures the flow of output, not the stock of assets beneath it. Inclusive wealth asks whether produced, human, and natural capital are growing with the economy: @soumyabh_swears or-f.org/40340

Women-led firms are more likely to participate in global value chains than male-led firms, yet they remain smaller, undercapitalised and concentrated in low-technology production. As Asian manufacturing upgrades, access to credit—not market access—will decide whether inclusion endures: @soumyabh_swears or-f.org/39802 #GlobalValueChains #WomenInBusiness

#BRICS 3.0 could shift the focus from alternative payments to interoperability across #finance, digital systems, technology, manufacturing, and connectivity — expanding economic choices without replacing one form of dependence with another: @DrNilanjanG or-f.org/40543 #GlobalSouth

#India's SEEDS initiative in the #Caribbean and #LatinAmerica signals an important shift in South-South cooperation: leveraging technical expertise, local adaptation, and small-scale agro-processing infrastructure to deliver tangible developmental outcomes. In an era of shrinking aid flows, modest grants may carry outsized strategic and developmental value: @sunaina_kumar or-f.org/39524 #GlobalSouth #FoodSecurity

#WestBengal’s exports operate through a neighbourhood gateway serving #Bangladesh, #Nepal and #Bhutan, and a global niche economy built around products such as jewellery, tea, leather and marine goods. Each requires different public goods, making a one-size-fits-all export policy ineffective: @BardhanArya or-f.org/39848#Exports #TradePolicy #India

The most consequential outcome of the Modi-Takaichi summit may be the least reported: an exchange of letters between the International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) and Japan’s Financial Services Agency on regulation, supervision and FinTech. #Japan’s #India story is turning financial: @soumyabh_swears or-f.org/39865

#India’s data-centre capacity is expanding rapidly, but much of it is concentrated in water-stressed cities. The policy challenge is to make #water efficiency, location and resource costs integral to digital infrastructure planning: @DrNilanjanG & Khush Advani or-f.org/40044 #DataCentres

Indian states are increasingly competing for foreign investment, creating a healthier investment environment by making governments more proactive and responsive to investor concerns. Competition can improve the proposition offered to global businesses: @AVIRAL96 or-f.org/40198 #Investment #India

India’s GCC sector now spans 2,117 centres, 2.36 million professionals and US$98.4 billion in revenue. Yet AI could decouple revenue growth from job creation, weakening one of India’s few large-scale pipelines into formal, high-productivity work: @BardhanArya & Siddharth Joshi or-f.org/39399 #AI #IndiaEconomy