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Is India’s energy transition a capital problem, a cost-of-capital problem, or a bankable-projects problem?
Join us for Emerging Markets Dialogues with Jayant Sinha, former Union Minister for Finance and Minister for Civil Aviation on Financing India’s Energy Transition.
📅 November 3 | 🕔 5 - 6.30 PM| Hybrid, Mumbai
Register: xkdr.org/event/emerging-mark…
🚨 Tomorrow at XKDR Forum: Book talk on “Fiscal Fables” with authors @psarthak19 & @pranaykotas
Public finance shapes every headline — Centre-state fights over GST, freebie debates, cities starved of funds — but rarely explained simply. This book fixes that.
📅 14 Oct, 11 AM
📍 Hybrid, XKDR Forum, Andheri East, Mumbai
🔗 Register: [xkdr.org/event/fiscal-fables…]
India is growing at 7 to 7.5%. So why is FDI falling? In Big Ideas Ep. 82, @abhishekecon discusses why risk-adjusted profitability, not headline growth, may explain India's weak trade performance and FDI slowdown, and what could help rebuild investor trust.
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📢 Call for Papers | Finance for the Clean Energy
Transition XKDR Forum invites researchers working at the frontiers of economics, finance, law, public policy, and political economy to examine how finance and institutions shape the clean energy transition.
November 16, 2026
Submit your paper now.
Link: xkdr.org/event/finance-for-t…
For most of history, trust has been a substitute for verification. The customer could not check, so markets built regulators, ombudsmen and ratings to vouch on her behalf. This held because verification was expensive.
With AI, it no longer is. What does this do to trust?
Maninder Singh Juneja, @TarunChugh2015 and @Amrita_Agarwal5 discuss this here: xkdr.org/viewpoints/trust-in…
India is becoming an increasingly important part of the global investment landscape. How should global investors think about allocating to India?
In Big Ideas Ep. 80, @arrychary discusses the case for a dedicated India allocation and what it could mean for India’s growth and integration with global capital.
Village India diversified rainfall risk through marriage across districts. The modern multi-location corporation quietly does something similar, acting as a climate shock insulator by shifting production across locations.
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New Big Ideas talk by Prof. Viral Acharya on why this matters for how we measure climate damage and why India's fragmented agri sector is uniquely exposed.
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