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Technology as a Force for Good

2023 – A Year of Risk and Volatility

Eight Billion People Sharing a World Divided

Xi Achieves Absolute Power, For What Greater Purpose?

Can the World Fund Security and Sustainability?

Technology as the Enabler of Systemic Financial Revolution

COP 27: How to Fund Net Zero Needs an Urgent Rethink

Transforming Education Through Technology is a Key to Underpinning Human Security and Progress

Cross-over Points Changing the World

Innovation Breakthroughs - Five Opportunities to Reshape the World

Lessons from the Russian Invasion of Ukraine in 2022 The West’s Opportunity to Reset the World Order

Lessons from the Russian Invasion of Ukraine in 2022 Moving the World Beyond War

Global Risks Require a Renewed Global Alignment

The Shape of 2022: Rising Hope Among Hazards

Making “Big Tech” a Force for Good

The Sign of the Times in a Decade of Change: Analysis, Insights and Foresight

The Rise of India’s Unicorns : India’s Tech Boom is Strategic

Funding the Future in a Multi-Stakeholder World

The Global Energy Transition Story of the World is in Midstream

‘Capital as a Force for Good’, Developments

Lessons from the Pandemic, No One Succeeds Without Everyone Succeeding

Creating Prosperity for a Billion People: Re-architecting the System of Wealth Creation

The Rise of Sustainable Finance: Global Investment Implications

Assailing Democracies, and How to Defend Them

The Big Questions for 2021

The Quadrilateral Power Blocs Shaping the World: Will Democracy Prevail?

The Agenda for America’s Next President, and the Critical Significance of this Election

India’s Slums Need to be Transformed as India Rises

The Cold War for Supremacy in the Information Age

American Power: Mapping its Rise and Calculating its Fall (and Return)

The Great Transformation: India’s Great Opportunity

The Coronavirus Pandemic Part III: The World Emerging from this Crisis

The Coronavirus Pandemic Part II: Waging the War

The Coronavirus Pandemic: A Global Test of Resilience, Leadership and Values

The India-US Leadership Agenda: Forging a New World Order

India’s Diversity is a Strategic Asset

Key Themes for the Year to Come: What to Look Out For in 2020

Britain’s Problem is not the EU, it is Lost Leadership

India’s Rise: Growth Scenarios

India: Privatisation for Profit and Purpose

Strengthening India’s Growth Multiple in the Global Slowdown

National Populism and the New World Order

Asia Rising: Quantifying the Asian Century

Delivering on the Victory in India’s 2019 General Election

The 2019 General Election: Who Will Lead India to a US$5tn Economy?

India’s Growth: Critical Turning Points and Geostrategic Implications

Briefing: India-Pakistan Conflict – An Inflection Point?

India’s Journey to a US$5tn Economy:Growth Beyond Policy

The Key Issues Shaping 2019

Global Cyber Rivalry Challenges American Geopolitical Leadership

Rising Global Risk (and its Implications for India)

Transforming India’s Growth Model

Reforms and Accelerating Growth are the Key to Political Power in India

China’s Path to World Leadership

India’s Transformation Through to 2040 Overview of the Metrics of Industrial India vs. Information Age India

Indian ‘Certainties’ Revisited – and the Changes They Will Drive

The Commonwealth 2.0: An Opportunity for India to Lead

India’s States: A Re-alignment Towards Growth

Digital Shock: India’s Opportunity to Create a New Healthcare System and Save US$50bn

Digital Shock: India’s Challenges are its Opportunity to Lead in Tech

Global Hubs: Engines for Prosperity

The Maths of India’s Reforms: Where to Next?

Digital Shock: How Our World is Being Transformed

India’s Transition to the Information Age, and the Sectors Driving This

India’s Rising, Risk Falling

Path to Power: India’s Great Opportunity in the Changing World Order.

The Evolving US-China Relationship in the Age of Trump

12 Certainties with the Potential to Transform India by 2025

India-International: How India’s Links to the World Create Value and Drive Development

The Shape of the World to Come Part III: The Path to a New World Order

India's Demonetisation Scheme: A High Stakes Move to Attack India’s Informal Economy

The Shape of the World to Come - Part II: The Key Challenges Facing the World

The US Election in Context we Live in Revolutionary Times: The Prelude to the New World Order

The Shape of the World to Come Part I: How the World is Progressing

The Enrichment of India’s Farming Community is the key to Adding US$4.3 trillion to Indian GDP

South China Seas: With Greater Power Comes Greater Responsibility

Restructuring the Nation’s Financial Sector for 10%+ Growth

Brexit and the Other Forces Destabilising and Reshaping the World

India’s Steady Pace of Change: The NDA Government at 2 Years

The Trump Doctrine and the Future of American Power

India-Australia: Creating a Defining Partnership

The Logic Underlying President Xi’s Anti-Corruption Campaign

Realising India’s demographic dividend: The People Determine Success

Key Themes for the Year to Come: What to Look Out For in 2016

China’s New Silk Road: Tactics, Overstretch or Grand Strategy?

India: Where China was 10 Years Ago, Not all Emerging Markets are the Same?

Does Democracy Drive Growth? Can China Succeed Without it and India Prosper Under it?

Creating Growth Through its States, How India Can Become A Long Term Driver of Economic Growth

Ten Lessons from China’s Equity Market Turmoil: What is Real?

India States: The India Within India

Cleaning Up India Worth $250bn: The Moral and Economic Imperative of a Clean Environment

The Dangers of the Wrong Reactions to China’s Growing International Power Position

India Has to Create Big Waves to Succeed

The China Dream: Beyond the Purge…Arresting Decay

India’s Journey to Economic Power Based on the Most Important Lessons from China

The First Steps in the Creation of the New India Story: How the Modi Government is Seeking to Reshape India

The Hong Kong Protests and their Implications for China

US-India Leaders’ Agenda: Aligning Their Visions for the 21st Century

The Role of Mega-Scale in Building Industrial Power: Some of China's Top Engineering and Construction Feats

Unleashing India’s Industrial Potential: Building a Globally-Competitive Manufacturing Base

Revolution and the Information Revolution

The Test of China’s Next Stage of Development: The Rise of Wuhan

China in Africa

India and Japan: The Strategic Agenda

China’s Changing Competitiveness to 2025– Far-reaching Economic and Political Implications

The 12% Growth Agenda: A Blueprint for India’s New Government

Decoding India’s 2014 Election: The Potential for Resetting India’s Course

Key Events for the Year to Come: What to Look out for in 2014

Reflections on India in the BRICs; Who You Calling a BRIC?

China’s Third Plenum: The Power Shifts Behind the Reforms

The China Dream: The Role of China’s Urbanisation and the Rise of an Independent Class of Citizen

Interpreting Gandhi’s Principles of Non-Violence for Today’s World

Transforming India’s Slums: A Critical Step in Creating the New India

China’s Overseas Population: Leveraging A Critical Asset

Pensions and Social Security in India and China: A c.US$30 trillion Liability in the Making

Cyber Attack, Defence and Security in the Making and Preserving of Superpowers

The Agenda: The Decisions that Will Shape India-China Relations

The Planning and Development Model of China, The Challenge to the Model is Becoming Clearer

Grand Design and Society: Creating the Cities of Tomorrow

China’s Potential Green Future

The Indian Diaspora: A Unique Untapped Global Asset for India

Plant for the Planet

Commentary: Protests in India and China – When is Enough Enough?

Leader: Making 2013 a Pivotal Year of Change: Our Wish List for 2013

The Future of Risk

Commentary: Presidents’ Agenda - The Decisions that Will Shape US-China

Bill Antholis of Brookings speaks up on India

Commentary: India: – The “Hindu Rate” or a Pause Before the Next Lap?

Commentary: China Miracle Ends and China Growth Continues?

Commentary: Fighting for Corporate Position, Size is Not Enough

Commentary: India and China’s Growing Equity Markets

Commentary: Why China and India Need the US

China and the Freedom Advantage

Commentary: The India-China Link – Cross Border Opportunities

India Wide Open – Transforming India Now for 2040

Commentary: The Shape of our World – The Year Ahead