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Workshop on Governance of Megacity Regions

February 4-5 , 2013 at Hotel Taj Palace, Mumbai
Workshop on Unmaking Citizens: Urban Citizenship and the Impoverishment of Poverty

May 28, 2013 at 3.45 p.m. at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi

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Accountability India

Accountability initiative is a research initiative that works to promote accountability for service delivery

Asian Security

This programme seeks to identify both the drivers of conflict and cooperation in southern Asia and beyond.

Climate Initiative

This initiative seeks to generate research and analysis on the global climate negotiations.

PRS India

PRS Legislative Research seeks to strengthen the legislative process by making it better informed, more transparent and participatory.

Systems of Innovation for Inclusive Development

The purpose is to identify what we need to do in order to build innovation capacities for inclusive development.

The Indian City

We invites concerned citizens to build a community of people and institutions to participate in conversations about urban India.

China Initiative

Research initiative to facilitate scholarship on China. The ICI-CPR partnership is an important part of CPR’s China initiative.

Indian Development Cooperation Research

IDCR is an initiative aimed at establishing a comprehensive database on Indian development assistance & disseminating analyses on Indian bilateral development partnerships

Economic Policy AnalysisThis area focuses on economic policy making across a range of sectors: trade, finance, health, education, social services, infrastructure industry etc.

Environmental Law and GovernanceDiscussions over how to balance environmental pressures with robust development continues to be a challenge for rapid growing economies.

Law, Regulation and the StateThis programme examines the normative, empirical and theoretical considerations that are relevant to understanding the state.

UrbanizationUrban Governance, Urban Drinking Water Supply, Urban Economy, Urbanization and Climate Change are 4 broad themes that are dealt with in this programme

International Relations and SecurityThis program examines both the traditional domains of foreign and security policies and the non-traditional challenges confronting the Indian state.

Latest Publications

'Differentiation in the Emerging Climate Regime'

By: Lavanya Rajamani

Abstract: The climate regime, comprising the Framework Convention on Climate Change of 1992 and the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, contains elements of prescription for and leadership of developed countries and differentiation in favor of developing countries.

Contingent Unilateralism: International Aviation in the European Emissions Trading Scheme

By: Lavanya Rajamani

Joanne Scott and Lavanya Rajamani, 'Contingent Unilateralism: International Aviation in the European Emissions Trading Scheme' in

The EU's Role in Global Governance: The Legal Dimension (Bart Van Vooren, Steven Blockmans, and Jan Wouters, eds., Oxford University Press, 2013)

Working Paper 2012/1 (November) - The Politics of Climate Change in India: Narratives of Equity and Co-benefits

By: Navroz K Dubash

Abstract: India occupies an intriguing dual position in global climate politics – a poor and developing economy with low levels of historical and per capita emissions, and a large and rapidly growing economy with rising emissions. Indian climate politics has substantially been shaped around the first perspective, and increasingly, under international pressure, is being forced to grapple with the second.

Regulation and Governance (September 2012) - Special Issue: Understanding the rise of the regulatory state of the South

By: Navroz K Dubash

Workshop on Governance of Megacity Regions

Workshop on Unmaking Citizens: Urban Citizenship and the Impoverishment of Poverty

Latest Publications

'Differentiation in the Emerging Climate Regime'

Contingent Unilateralism: International Aviation in the European Emissions Trading Scheme

Working Paper 2012/1 (November) - The Politics of Climate Change in India: Narratives of Equity and Co-benefits

Regulation and Governance (September 2012) - Special Issue: Understanding the rise of the regulatory state of the South

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