Bridging Infrastructural Deficits at Select Trade Ports in India
The project ‘Bridging Infrastructural Deficits at Select Trade Ports in India’ aims at facilitating trade by developing a comprehensive ‘port-wise plan of action’ for policy reforms and infrastructural improvement, through an outreach program with relevant stakeholders. This project will discern critical infrastructural deficits and policy reforms which need to be addressed to capitalize on trade […]
Land Boundary Agreement: Ending the Radcliffe Impasse & Beyond
Shawahiq Siddiqui Environmental lawyer specializing in trans-boundary water and land disputes in South Asia Advisory member, BRIEF The partitioning of India in 1947 and its aftermath changed the South Asian sub-continent forever. Amongst the worst implications of the partition was the hastily drawn up border (Radcliffe line) as a result of the Award by the […]
Shakti Sinha: The Changing Strategic Environment in India’s North West neighbourhood
Shakti Sinha Director, South Asian Institute of Strategic Affairs The long-awaited visit of President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan was unusual in that the expectations were low, the opposite of what we would normally expect. The Indian strategic community was not particularly enthused with Ghani’s perceived tilt towards Pakistan and China. And the leadership in the […]
Usman Khan: The balancing act in India-Pakistan Trade
Usman Khan Adjunct Faculty, Department of Economics, Lahore University of Management Sciences Policy Expert, DEVNEX (Pvt.) Limited Even though both India and Pakistan are members of the South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA), established in January 2006, trade between them is strikingly small. Total trade (exports plus imports) between the two countries in 2011-12 averaged […]
Mohammed Saqib – CEO
Mohammed Saqib has over 30 years of experience with Government think tanks like Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies (RGICS) and Indian Council for Research in International Economic Relations (ICRIER). He has strong expertise in International Trade, economic reforms, FDI, Industrial Policy and WTO related issues. Some of his publications are as follows – MSME […]
Subrata Bandyopadhyay – Director
Subrata Bandyopadhyay, Masters in Economics, has more than 15 years of experience in socio-economic research. He was associated with National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) for more than three years in various capacities wherein he worked on various household and industrial surveys. He has been part of various prestigious research projects for the Indian […]
Anjani Kumar Jha- Manager (Projects)
Anjani Kumar Jha’s expertise lies in the areas of socio-economic and marketing consultancy projects. He has been associated with BRIEF for close to 4 years and has successfully worked on projects for The World Bank, Dun & Bradstreet, The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Limited (IL&FS), […]
Samit Chakraborty- Manager (Projects)
Samit Chakraborty was involved with Global Strategy & Investment Consulting (GSIC), the research and investment banking arm of Planman Consulting India (Pvt.) Ltd., for over four years prior to joining BRIEF. His KRAs there included preparation of industry reports, company reports, business proposals and other relevant research assignments. GSIC, during the later part of his […]
India’s ‘SAARC Yatra’
The new government is approaching its first anniversary very soon. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, after coming to power initiated a series of new policies and reform agendas. For a long time India’s foreign policy was leaning towards the Western markets and focussed on tariff reduction, then India adopted […]
E-Pharmacy – Perception of Consumers
Bureau of Research on Industry and Economic Fundamentals (BRIEF) has been involved in conducting a primary survey based study titled “E-Pharmacy – Perception of Consumers”. The aim of the study was to understand consumers’ perspectives towards the novel concept of online pharmacies while encompassing their views and readiness towards adopting this technology fuelled medicine buying […]