Bridging Infrastructural Deficits at Select Trade Ports in India Report Release
Bridging Infrastructural Deficits at Select Trade Ports in India report release by Honorable Minister Shri Nitin Gadkari*, Minister of Road, Transport and Highways, on 30th March 2016 (Wednesday), 5.00 PM – 8.00 PM at Tamarind Hall, India Habitat Center, New Delhi The report is an outcome of a study launched in April 2015 aimed at facilitating India’s trade […]
Cross LoC Trade: Creating Positive Constituencies
Conciliation Resources and Bureau of Research on Industry & Economic Fundamentals (BRIEF) have jointly launched a program on Cross LoC trade through Jammu and Kashmir, primarily aimed at supporting and fostering LoC trade and addressing the associated development issues. Over the last seven years Cross LoC trade has been the most impactful Confidence Building Measure […]
Stakeholders’ Consultation: Bridging Infrastructural Deficits at Select Trade Ports in India
As part of its ongoing study on ‘Bridging Infrastructural Deficits at Select Trade Ports in India,’ Bureau of Research on Industry and Economic Fundamentals (BRIEF) organized a regional Stakeholders’ Consultation on 18 November 2015 in Mumbai. The Consultation was aimed at bringing together key stakeholders from the ports sector (Land and Sea) to deliberate upon […]
Seven years of cross-LoC trade
Shujaat Bukhari Veteran journalist, Convener of Kashmir Initiative Group On October 21, the cross Line of Control (LoC) trade will complete seven years of existence. On face value not much has been achieved in institutionalising this trade, yet in the absence of a proper mechanism (required for such a trade) and continued hostilities between India […]
Raising the State in India’s Foreign Policy
Tridivesh Singh Maini Senior Research Associate, The Jindal School of International Affairs, OP Jindal Global University, Sonepat In recent years, state governments have begun to be acknowledged as important stakeholders in foreign policy, not just by scholars, but by successive central governments. This, in spite of the fact that matters pertaining to foreign policy fall […]
An eastern road to Indian and regional prosperity
Afaq Hussain Director, BRIEF Riya Sinha Research Assistant, BRIEF Of late, India has adopted a ‘diplomatic détente’ approach for fruition of her Act East Policy, and the latest developments along the eastern border, both domestic and international, have been significant steps towards India’s ambition of becoming a regional and global power. Domestically, the north-east plays […]
Shakti Sinha
Shakti Sinha is the head of Policy Research Group at the Bureau of Research in Industry and Economic Fundamentals (BRIEF). He is also the Chairperson of an upcoming think tank, South Asian Institute for Strategic Affairs (SAISA). He has a Masters in Public Policy from George Mason University, along with a Masters in Indian and […]
Penetration of IT in Medium and Small Enterprises in India
The study was carried out with an objective to identify and understand the challenges encountered by the industries (Manufacturing, IT, Retail, etc.) on account of non-availability of IT infrastructure. The study was also aimed at understanding the possible benefits such industries would derive from adoption of IT in routine business activities. The study provides an […]
Feasibility Study on Joint Venture Project between Toyo Agricultural Machinery and Indian Strategic Partner for Potato Harvester
Bureau of Research on Industry & Economic Fundamentals (BRIEF) in collaboration with Toyo Agricultural Machinery carried out the above mentioned study to gauge the demand and supply dynamics of agricultural machinery in the state of Punjab. The objective of this market study was to measure the business potential for Toyo Agricultural Machinery, Japan (TAM) in […]
Identifying Natural Resource Based Rural Development Projects in Chhattisgarh
Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Limited (IL&FS) commissioned Bureau of Research on Industry & Economic Fundamentals (BRIEF) to participate in a study on implementation of UPNRM – Umbrella Program in Natural Resource Management (UPNRM) – programme in selected districts of Chhattisgarh. The objective of the program was to “enhance the effectiveness of selected public and […]