By Ernest Z. Bower & Conor Cronin For the first time in anyone’s memory, foreign policy and national security are poised to figure as major issues in the Philippine presidential election, scheduled for May 2016. Recent polls show Filipinos are…
This week: Gujarat schedules local elections; GST legislation is under way; Maharashtra plans a fire sale; Uttar Pradesh is building housing, and much more. There is widespread recognition of the importance of the political-economies of Indian states. Yet there is a…
By Sarah Watson — The release of the World Bank’s annual Ease of Doing Business Report on October 27 brought mixed news for India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made improving India’s position in the global rankings a major talking…
There is widespread recognition of the importance of the political-economies of Indian states. Yet there is a lack of hard, credible information on what states are doing to strengthen or weaken their own economies. The CSIS Wadhwani Chair in U.S. India…
By Cuong Nguyen Officials from the 12 countries in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement concluded talks on October 5, after years of heated negotiations. The deal must now be ratified by various individual governments before it takes effect. Nevertheless,…
In this week’s episode, we hear from President Park Geun-hye of South Korea about the future of the U.S.-Korea alliance and then Foreign Minister Julie Bishop of Australia joins to discuss current geopolitical environment from Australia’s perspective with CSIS Senior…
There is widespread recognition of the importance of the political-economies of Indian states. Yet there is a lack of hard, credible information on what states are doing to strengthen or weaken their own economies. The CSIS Wadhwani Chair in U.S.…
In this week’s episode, we discuss the finalization of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement with CSIS’s Matthew Goodman and Scott Miller. Scott and Matt talk through the geostrategic implications and political path ahead for TPP. Then CSIS Korea Chair Dr.…
By Sarah Watson & Maria Philip — Arvind Subramanian, now India’s Chief Economic Advisor, in 2014 diagnosed India as an instance of “precocious development:” it relied more on its relatively small pool of highly-skilled workers than its vast pool of…
By Matthew P. Goodman Five U.S. congressmen take sledgehammers to a Japanese cassette player on the steps of the Capitol. The White House imposes 100 percent tariffs on a range of Japanese imports in retaliation for violations of a bilateral…