While India is rewriting its trade strategy, market access will matter only if domestic industry can turn it into investment, jobs and deeper global value-chain integration. After years of cautiously pursuing Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), India has signed landmark deals with the United Kingdom and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), while talks continue with several other major economies. The move reflects a broader strategy to deepen integration with global markets,

From Britain to Nepal, economic discontent is rewriting the rules of democratic politics. Although the United Kingdom and Nepal occupy opposite ends of the global economic spectrum, they offer a remarkably similar political lesson. One is a former imperial power, the world's fifth-largest economy, a G7 member and nuclear state with centuries-old democratic institutions. The other is a small, landlocked Himalayan nation still classified by the United Nations as a Least Devel