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Technology, Geopolitics and India’s Quest for Tech Self-Reliance

Technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), digital platforms, machine learning (ML), data analytics, autonomous vehicles, blockchain, internet of things (IoT), virtual and augmented reality, and robotics have brought profound changes in almost e....

April 02, 2024 Technological and Scientific Studies , artificial intelligence , Defence , technology , Geopolitics , Global supply chains , Self-reliance , Data Analytics

Resilient Rare-Earth Supply Chains: Whither Quad?

The ubiquitous iPhone is perhaps the most commonly cited example used to showcase the globalized nature of supply chains. Starting from its design process in California, US, the complex supply chain for its production and assembly spans 43 countries ....

November 11, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy , QUAD , Global supply chains , Rare Earth , Earth Elements , Quad Collaboration

Igniting Total Factor Productivity Growth in Indian Economy

Praveen Menon Article

For decades, India has looked upon China as competitor in the economic sphere and rightly so. Indian civilization has historically been an economic superpower for centuries ahead of China. It was inevitable in contemporary economic history that a gia....

July 21, 2020 Economic Studies , Article , China , Indian Economy , Global supply chains , ROI , reforms , Purchasing Power Parity , R&D , spending , Total Factor Production , Research Excellence

Global Impact of Covid-19 Crisis

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

Covid-19 is the first full-blown crisis of a hyper-connected world. It arose as the local outbreak in China at Wuhan city, and within a few weeks, it had spread all across the world. More than a million Corona positive cases have been noticed and mor....

April 12, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , economy , Globalisation , COVID-19 , IMF , Multilateralism , Helpless West , US-China rivalry , capitalism , Global supply chains , Non--traditional security