The biggest jump on the Scope 3 Performance Index comes from the supply chain. Getting Tier-1 suppliers, by procurement spend, to meet clear environmental standards moves the score more than almost anything else: @BardhanArya, @shoba_suri, Nitin Rao, Kritika Banerjee, Sjoerd Panhuysen, & Sumit Roy. Read the full report 👉 or-f.org/40658 #Scope3 #NetZero #ESG

#BRICS’ greatest energy challenge may also be its greatest strength: bringing fossil exporters, energy importers, and clean-#tech leaders into the same transition conversation. Edited by : @HeenMak & @jhanvi_t or-f.org/40027

GPIF holds roughly $931bn in foreign assets. Japanese households hold ¥2,230 trillion, over half in cash. India cannot treat the Japanese capital as a diplomatic entitlement. It will have to compete for it: @soumyabh_swears or-f.org/39865 #India #Japan

#Bengal's binding constraint isn't people — measured #unemployment is low and human capital is strong. What's missing is the institutional coordination to convert that into formal jobs and output: @DrNilanjanG, @BardhanArya, Kumkum Mohata & @diyaashahz or-f.org/40347

Two very different futures for #AI's gains: a competitive market that spreads productivity gains widely, or an oligopoly that prices by the value of the human labour it replaces — capturing the surplus instead of sharing it. Which one wins is a policy choice, not a technological inevitability: @BardhanArya or-f.org/39875 #Economy #Employment

Fewer than 5 percent of working women in #India participate in #trade and trade-related services, compared with nearly 15 percent of working men: @sunaina_kumar & @soumyabh_swears or-f.org/40460

#India’s digital infrastructure cannot be resilient if it deepens pressure on scarce water and #energy systems. With most 2030 capacity still in planning, India has a narrow window to embed resource efficiency into design: @DrNilanjanG & Khush Advani or-f.org/40044 #DigitalIndia

Smallholder #farmers hold much of agriculture’s climate solution through soil carbon, better land management and restoration, yet receive only a sliver of #ClimateFinance. Blended #finance and concessional bonds can close that gap: @BardhanArya, @shoba_suri, Nitin Rao, Kritika Banerjee, Sjoerd Panhuysen, & Sumit Roy. Read the full report 👉 or-f.org/40658 #Scope3 #NetZero #ESG

#India’s states are growing at different speeds, but economic growth alone does not guarantee upward mobility. What matters is whether states can convert growth into better jobs, higher wages, and sustained income gains for households: Manish Vaidya & Kumkum Mohata or-f.org/40166 #IndianEconomy #ViksitBharat2047

#WestBengal’s exports operate through a neighbourhood gateway serving #Bangladesh, #Nepal and #Bhutan, and a global niche economy built around products such as jewellery, tea, leather and marine goods. Each requires different public goods, making a one-size-fits-all export policy ineffective: @BardhanArya or-f.org/39848#Exports #TradePolicy #India

#India’s growth has added to produced capital, but natural capital has continued to decline while human capital has remained broadly flat. The challenge is to ensure rapid growth is matched by an expanding stock of produced, human, and natural capital: @soumyabh_swears or-f.org/40340

New evidence from developing Asia shows women-led firms are not excluded from global value chains—they are disproportionately present but clustered in lower-value segments. Sustaining inclusion now depends less on exports than on access to affordable finance: @soumyabh_swears or-f.org/39802 #GlobalValueChains #WomenEntrepreneurs

For developing economies, diversification is ultimately about expanding choice: more currencies, payment channels, sources of finance, trade routes, and economic partners. #BRICS 3.0 could test whether that optionality can become durable interoperability: @DrNilanjanG or-f.org/40543 #GlobalSouth

The most consequential outcome of the Modi-Takaichi summit may be the least reported: an exchange of letters between the International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) and Japan’s Financial Services Agency on regulation, supervision and FinTech. #Japan’s #India story is turning financial: @soumyabh_swears or-f.org/39865

#WestBengal has one of #India's highest rates of financial inclusion, with 95.3% of women holding usable bank accounts—a strong foundation that is presently underleveraged for formal job creation: @DrNilanjanG, @BardhanArya, Kumkum Mohata & @diyaashahz or-f.org/40347

Three separate studies (#OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) find the same thing: #AI deployment is wide but shallow. It shows up in 2/3 of occupations but touches only 1/5 of tasks within them. It's augmenting jobs, not replacing them — for now: @BardhanArya or-f.org/39875 #Economy

#India's recent #FTAs increasingly include provisions on MSMEs, #gender, and sustainable development. This brief by @sunaina_kumar & @soumyabh_swears examines how far these provisions translate into gains for smaller firms and women. or-f.org/40460

Smallholder #farmers are where most #agribusiness Scope 3 emissions begin. Treating them as partners rather than a supply risk is the most direct route up the S3PI ranking: @BardhanArya, @shoba_suri, Nitin Rao, Kritika Banerjee, Sjoerd Panhuysen, & Sumit Roy. Read the full report 👉 or-f.org/40658 #Scope3 #NetZero #ESG

#EconomicDiplomacy cannot compensate for a weak business environment. For investors, transparent policymaking, reliable infrastructure, lower logistics costs and easy access to land and electricity remain more fundamental than outreach alone: @AVIRAL96 or-f.org/40198 #India

For #WestBengal, export growth depends less on broad incentives and more on targeted interventions—from testing and certification to cold-chain infrastructure, technology upgrading and border facilitation—that reduce costs that individual firms, especially #MSMEs, cannot bear alone: @BardhanArya or-f.org/39848 #IndustrialPolicy #Trade #Exports