Region | India and South Asia

Map of India and South Asia including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan.

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View our expert commentary and informed analysis on the latest developments in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan.

Central banks and SDGs: A South Asian perspective

MOHD AVI HOSSAIN AND IYANATUL ISLAM | 20-MINUTE READ | Download PDF Setting the context Optimists dream of a future in which South Asia will… Read More

Building Australia’s Asia capability: Griffith Asia Institute contributes to a national initiative

CHRISTOPH NEDOPIL |  Australia’s future security and prosperity are inseparable from its ability to understand and respond to the rapid shifts occurring across Asia. From… Read More

When peace meets politics: Why Yunus backed Machado

IYANATUL ISLAM  |  Why did Yunus, a global icon from Bangladesh, embrace the controversial Machado, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025?… Read More

Soft balancing China: India’s evolving strategy

IAN HALL |  In June 2020, high in the Himalayas at Galwan in Ladakh, twenty Indian soldiers and an unknown number of Chinese troops were… Read More

Spring in Sydney: Reflections from the AFR Asia Summit 2025

GLORIA GE | There’s something about Sydney that always energises me. Its vibrance, diversity, and rhythm are unmatched in other Australia cities. I… Read More

From concept to impact: Shifting debt-for-nature swaps from exploratory ideas to empirical insight

CHRISTOPH NEDOPIL AND TIANSHU SUN  |  Debt-for-Nature Swaps (DNS) have re-emerged as a tool to address the dual crisis of sovereign debt in emerging economies and… Read More

Advancing the use and sustainability of digital prediction tools for climate-sensitive infectious disease prevention

CORDIA CHU AND TUAN PHAM | The Asia-Pacific region is highly vulnerable to climate-sensitive infectious diseases (CSIDs), including vector-borne illnesses such as dengue, malaria,… Read More

No time to waste–transforming challenges into opportunities for sustainable leadership

CHRISTOPH NEDOPIL, GLORIA GE AND DIAN TJONDRONEGORO  |  There is no time to waste. As we finalised the Griffith Asia Pacific… Read More

Green growth and carbon neutrality: Lessons from the world’s top emitters

SAMIA ZAHRA,  SELVA SELVANATHAN, RAKESH GUPTA  AND MANEKA JAYASINGHE, |  As climate change accelerates, the pressure on countries to transition to a greener… Read More

Time to develop an Asia-Pacific Green Development Agenda

CHRISTOPH NEDOPIL, DHRUBA PURKAYASTHA, HEMANT MALLYA, KAVITA VIJ, NITIN BASSI AND SHUVA RAHA | 50 MINUTE READ | Download PDF Introduction The… Read More