Report

July 27, 2026

The Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP) is delighted to share the Annual Report for 2025-2026.

Working Paper

Macroeconomic Policy, Trade & Competitiveness

Quality Control Orders in India’s Chemical Sector: Supply-Chain Pressures and Firm-Level Outcomes

July 23, 2026

The paper focuses on chemical-using firms to analyse the impact of QCOs on regulated inputs and outputs, and their effects on firms’ gross value addition, production, and profits.

Report

Growth, Finance, Health & Human Development

India E-Commerce Report 2026: Innovation in the Merchandise Space

Laveesh Bhandari, Janak Raj, Aashi Gupta & Indramani Tiwari

July 16, 2026

E-commerce is no longer a peripheral activity but is becoming an increasingly central component of India’s economy. The analysis in this report focuses exclusively on the e-commerce of merchandise goods, excluding services such as travel, ticketing, and digital subscriptions.

Discussion Paper

Renewable Energy & Clean Tech

Building India’s Electric Vehicle Supply Chains: A Case for Indo-German Cooperation

Ganesh Sivamani, Karthik Bansal & Anindita Sinh

July 8, 2026

India’s green mobility transition cannot be managed in isolation. By operationalising existing India–Germany partnerships, India can move from the simple assembly of EV components to becoming a resilient player in the global EV value chain.

Executive Policy Brief

Health and Human Development

Developing Competencies for a Climate-Resilient Health Workforce in South and Southeast Asia

Priyanka Tomar & Neethi Rao

June 16, 2026

Strengthening climate–health competencies across HRH is central to building climate-resilient health systems in the region. Drawing on a peer-reviewed global scoping review and regional stakeholder interactions, this policy brief examines ten climate-vulnerable countries in Asia.

Key Insights

Macroeconomic Policy, Trade & Competitiveness

MacroInsights: Rupee Pressures—Then and Now: Why This Isn’t 2013 but a Structural BoP Problem

Renu Kohli

June 10, 2026

Unlike 2013, this crisis reflects a chronic foreign capital deficit, not a current account shock.

Working Paper

Macroeconomic Policy, Trade & Competitiveness

India’s Inflation, 2019–2024: Food Shocks and Inflation Targeting

Renu Kohli

May 25, 2026

The paper serves as a critical examination of the flexible inflation targeting (FIT) framework’s resilience in a climate-vulnerable, food-dependent economy and cautions that the challenges observed may be a precursor to more systemic issues as climate risks intensify.

Working Paper

Climate Change

Framing India’s China Strategy on Climate and Clean Energy

Pooja Ramamurthi & Shruti Jargad

May 18, 2026

Given the tension between the need for sovereignty and continued trade dependence, this paper seeks to provide evidence-based insights into whether, where, and how India might reimagine climate engagement with China in the context of today’s geopolitical realities.

Working Paper

Foreign Policy & Security

Strategic Considerations and India’s Defence Manufacturing Sector

Jaimini Bhagwati & Aalhya Sabharwal

May 11, 2026

Although India’s defence manufacturing capabilities are increasing, it still depends on a high proportion of imported equipment. The paper identifies three key areas requiring reform: governance and domestic policy, budgetary priorities, and technical capabilities.

Discussion Paper

Health and Human Development

Primary Healthcare in South and Southeast Asia

Alok Kumar Singh, Nadine Monteiro & Neethi Rao

April 30, 2026

This paper investigates the state of PHC in 10 countries across South and Southeast Asia, compares experiences from these countries and highlights common challenges and approaches that can inform future reforms.

Blog

Foreign Policy & Security

India, Kenneth Waltz and the Iran War

Constantino Xavier

June 9, 2026

Constantino Xavier shares his 2013 essay that he wrote for a Portuguese journal, where he engaged with what he found to be Waltz’s striking popularity here in India.

Blog

Uncategorized

Green Manufacturing Makes Strategic Sense

Laveesh Bhandari & Sanjay Kathuria

June 4, 2026

India needs to reorient its economic growth strategy and focus on green energy and green manufacturing, Laveesh Bhandari and Sanjay Kathuria explain in this blog.