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March 25, 2022

CPPR TOWNHALL on The Ukraine Conundrum and India’s Strategy

CPPR TOWNHALL on “The Ukraine Conundrum and India’s Strategy” Date and Time: 18 March 2022 at 6:30 PM IST. Speakers: Amb TP Sreenivasan, Advisor, CPPR and former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations, Prof T V […]
March 24, 2022

Kerala Budget 2022: State Big on Being a Provider than a Facilitator

Kerala has consistently topped the charts with a near hundred percent literacy rate among all Indian States. Even with this favourable statistic, the standards of teaching, quality of education, absence of academy-industry-linkages, etc. have been concerns to address in the […]
March 24, 2022

Bigger Concerns of Big Government

The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered many economies towards ‘Big Government’, triggering a populist surge with large expenditure and borrowing, coupled with unprecedented power to meet contingencies. With Kerala, this has been a decadal trend regardless of the political parties coming […]
March 22, 2022

What should prevail instead of K-Rail?

The debate on the utility and feasibility of K-Rail continues in Kerala. The arguments range from the environmental to the geographical divide for those who do not favour the proposed project, whereas the supporters of the project pitch for the […]
March 21, 2022

CPPR TOWNHALL SERIES Ep-9 on The Ukraine Conundrum and India’s Strategy

Event Details Date and Time: March 18, 2022; 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM IST Topic: The Ukraine Conundrum and India’s Strategy Platform: Zoom Speakers: Amb T P Sreenivasan, Advisor, CPPR and former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the […]
March 21, 2022

India Energy Samvad | Dialogue No 2 : Energy Transition and Reforms for Sustainability

Event Details: Date and Time: March 16, 2022; 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm IST Topic: Energy Transition and Reforms for Sustainability Platform: Zoom Speaker : Anish De, Global sector Lead – KPMG National leader, Energy Natural Resources and Chemicals. Moderator:  […]
March 10, 2022

Event Report | Vikasarth 2022 | Session 1 | Thirty Years of Indian Economic Reforms: the Growth and Development of Kerala

Thirty Years of Indian Economic Reforms: the Growth and Development of Kerala Event Details Date and Time: March 10, 2022; 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM IST Topic: The Vikasarth Conversations Platform: Zoom Speakers: Pulapre Balakrishnan: Economics Professor, Ashoka University Bornali […]
March 9, 2022

The Goan brand of precarity – a closer look at unstable constituencies

By: Devahuti Sarkar Goan Legislative Assembly elections have been termed as the “politics of shifting sand” because of its history of numerous defections, changing alliances, and last-minute uncertainties among voters. Despite being a small state with merely 40 constituencies, it […]
March 9, 2022

Punjab Assembly elections- a moment of churning or missed opportunity?

By: Devahuti Sarkar Punjab, like many other states in India, is undergoing a moment of churning. There has been an undercurrent of dissatisfaction among the people of Punjab, some key defections, infighting within the Congress, shifting caste representation – in […]
March 9, 2022

Can Devbhoomi witness the emergence of an alternative political force?

The Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, known as “Devbhoomi”, was carved out of the hilly districts of the state of Uttar Pradesh in the year 2000. The hilly state, comprising of the two major regions of Garhwal and Kumaon, has voted […]
March 1, 2022

The Vikasarth Conversations 2022

“The Vikasarth Conversations” was jointly envisioned by the Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR), India and the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), New York as a platform that brings together a small and curated group of persons involved in legal, economic, and public policy […]
February 1, 2022

Institutionalizing and Implementing Street Vending Policies

Street vending depicts one of the visible forms of informal economy. In many countries, it is considered as an illegal activity. However, it is a growing economic activity, both in developed and developing nations, and is an important source of […]
January 10, 2022

Would the new Coast Guard Forum help speed up COC negotiations?

Vietnam Coast Guard (VCG) and Indonesia’s Maritime Security Agency (Bakamla) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in December 2021 to further strengthen bilateral ‘maritime security and safety’ cooperation. The MoU is expected to “serve as a tool, corridor and mechanism […]
December 15, 2021

Centre for Public Policy Research organized a one day workshop for journalists

കൊച്ചി: പൊതുനയ രൂപീകരണത്തിലും വിനിമയത്തിലും മാധ്യമ പ്രവർത്തകരുടെ പങ്ക് എന്ന വിഷയത്തിൽ ശിൽപ്പശാല സംഘടിപ്പിച്ചു. സാമൂഹിക, രാഷ്ട്രീയ, സാമ്പത്തിക വെല്ലുവിളികൾ റിപ്പോർട്ട് ചെയ്യുന്ന മാധ്യമപ്രവർത്തകർക്ക് വേണ്ടിയായിരുന്നു സെൻ്റർ ഫോർ പബ്ലിക് പോളിസി റിസർച്ച്, ഫ്രഡറിക് ന്യൂമാൻ ഫൌണ്ടേഷൻ എന്നിവർ ചേർന്ന് ശിൽപ്പശാല സംഘടിപ്പിച്ചത്. ഇതോടനുബന്ധിച്ച് പൊതുനയ രൂപീകരണവുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട വിവിധ മേഖലകളെ കുറിച്ച് സെമിനാറുകൾ നടന്നു. […]
December 15, 2021

Need to Strengthen Grassroots Level Democracy

The pursuit for citizens’ participation in governance to unravel the democratic deficit in India has been resolved with the implementation of the 73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments. The acts for decentralising the governance devolved functions and powers of decision making […]