Coordinated Border Management at Land Ports in BBIN countries

Coordinated Border Management at Land Ports in BBIN countries The purpose of the study is to develop an action plan for setting up coordinated border management between India and its neighbors (India-Bangladesh, India-Bhutan and India-Nepal). While developing this plan of action, the study will assess the feasibility of common facilitation, in terms of – development […]

Asian Development Bank (ADB): Strategic Interventions for Economic Transformation— Strengthening Knowledge for Enhancing Development Outcomes

Asian Development Bank (ADB): Strategic Interventions for Economic Transformation— Strengthening Knowledge for Enhancing Development Outcomes The primary responsibility of the BRIEF team in this project was to assist the Country Programming Unit and INRM management at ADB in its tasks, including (but not limited to) projects pipeline, providing inputs to the development, review and analysis […]

BRICS urgently needs some mortar

BRICS as a group of large developing economies is too diverse politically and culturally to be the nucleus of a future global organization or a force to counter the West’s hegemony. But the current Sino-Indian mutual incomprehension carries the danger of turning this promising group into another SAARC. The 14th BRICS Summit is scheduled for […]

Student Exchange Programs: The Way Forward for Economic Integration in SAARC?

Student Exchange Programs: The Way Forward for Economic Integration in SAARC? Kriti Samnotra Kriti Samnotra is a Research Intern at New Delhi-based Bureau of Research on Industry and Economic Fundamentals (BRIEF). She is pursuing economic studies at University of British Columbia, Canada. Views expressed are personal. In May 2021, the Chinese government proposed a Pakistan-China […]

Fast tracking digitization at Integrated Check Posts in India

“World trade is expected to fall by between 13% and 32% in 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic disrupts normal economic activity and life around the world”, states the press release issued by the World Trade Organization. It cannot be denied that the impact of Covid-19 will be severe and long lasting – forcing countries to […]

Cross LoC Trade: Building Bridges, (Re)Connecting Communities in Jammu & Kashmir

Following successful completion of the study on Cross-LoC Trade: Enhancing Opportunities and Expanding Constituencies, BRIEF has started next phase of the study with the aim of building bridges and (re)connecting communities across LoC and between J&K and rest of India. And for this, the project will focus to strengthen further the mechanisms of LoC trade, […]

A decade of India Pak Trade

A DECADE OF FLUCTUATING TRADE – THE STORY OF INDIA PAKISTAN Henry George once said that trade has been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice and the diffuser of knowledge. India and Pakistan are yet to reap these benefits of trade and end the era of political tensions that have been shadowing the […]

SDF promoting Regional Cooperation & Integration in SAARC region

Dr Sunil Motiwal Chief Executive Officer SAARC Development Fund SAARC Development Fund (SDF) is established by the Heads of the eight SAARC Member States in April 2010 as an umbrella financial institution for SAARC projects and program in the SAARC region. The fund works for promoting the welfare of the people of SAARC region, improving […]

India-Pakistan tensions and power co-operation

Tridivesh Singh Maini Senior Research Associate, The Jindal School of International Affairs, OP Jindal Global University, Sonepat Captain Amarinder Singh Chief Minister (CM) of Punjab, during his meeting (April 21, 2017) with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, sought the intervention for sale of electricity to Pakistan and Nepal. According to the Punjab CM, since the state […]

Tuticorin Container Terminal: Where we were, where we are & where we wish to be

P. Jeyanth Jason Thomas General Manager, Chakiat Group (Tuticorin branch), President, Tuticorin Customs Brokers’ Association, Vice President, Tuticorin Ship Agents’ Association, Member of Federation of Freight Forwarders’ Association of India Honorary Secretary of Mission to Seafarers, Tuticorin Centre Looking back into the past brings certain very pleasant memories to my mind. Those were the days […]