This week, Karnataka is considering lifting restrictions on women working overnight shifts in all sectors; sixteen states have signed on to the central government’s rescue scheme for state power distribution companies; Rajasthan approves a new policy to boost development in…
By Scott Kennedy – Zhou Xiaochuan, the urbane governor of China’s central bank for the past 13 years, gave a lengthy interview on Saturday to media outlet Caixin. This represents Zhou’s first public comments on China’s economy in almost five…
This week: states are threatening to hold the GST hostage; Maharashtra makes it easier for employers to hire contract employees; four heads of state in Mumbai for “Make in India” week; Rajasthan passes the first test of its liberalized labor…
Who is he? Thongloun Sisoulith has served as a deputy prime minister of Laos since 2001 and concurrently as minister of foreign affairs since 2006. Born in Hua Phan province bordering on Vietnam and China, he studied in the Soviet…
By Megan Kelly – Xi Jinping’s first Middle East tour as president (and the first of any Chinese president since 2009) seems to have passed without a snag — not a small task given the current climate between Saudi Arabia…
In this episode we explore the story of the relationship between the United States and its key ally and partner in Southeast Asia – the Philippines. With a shifting geopolitical environment, the lull in U.S.-Philippines ties following the Cold War…
By Michael Sheldrick If nothing else, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s visit to the United States in mid-January — his first as Prime Minister — served to highlight a simple fact: Australia matters. In 2016 the world’s most powerful country is…
This week, Maharashtra passes new policies reducing inspections, easing land transfer, and allowing direct sales by farmers to retailers; the center extends the deadline for implementing the Food Security Act again; Telangana is getting a National Investment and Manufacturing Zone; Uttar Pradesh extends industrial…
CSIS and the Center for Strategic Studies and International Development (CSSD) co-hosted a unique event on January 14, 2016, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam titled 20 Years of U.S.-Vietnam Relations in Perspective. The conference recognized the 20th anniversary of…
This week: Andhra Pradesh liberalizes labor laws in the retail sector, and its Chief Minister attends Davos; Maharashtra is moving forward with an SEZ for financial services; Rajasthan budgets millions to improve small-city infrastructure; West Bengal announces a new entrepreneurship…
