Mihir SharmaBloomberg Opinion Columnist

Switching to Western platforms is too expensive. Instead the country needs to do the hard work of developing a viable domestic defense industry. 

To clean up dirty sectors such as cement, big emerging nations are going to need money and innovative technology from Western multinationals.

Despite plentiful reserves, power plants can’t keep up with demand during the country’s blistering heat wave. It’s time to accelerate the switch to renewables. 

The war in Ukraine is bringing the two sides closer together rather than driving them apart despite their differences.

Promoting organic farming and heedlessly printing money, the country’s ruling clan has conclusively demonstrated why some ideas should remain on the shelf. 

The problems that caused the prime minister’s downfall — like double-digit inflation and dwindling foreign exchange reserves — aren’t going anywhere.

With his populist bravado and anti-Western rhetoric, the Pakistani prime minister has stumbled into a trap of his own making. 

While the U.S. and Europe are congratulating themselves over the speed and effectiveness of sanctions against Russia, many Indians decry their hypocrisy and unilateralism. 

Voters in India’s largest state returned the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party to power not because of its economic record but because of what it promised its Hindu base. 

Rather than criticizing New Delhi for not joining the effort to isolate Vladimir Putin, the U.S. and Europe need to show they are better partners against China than he will ever be. 

If Indian leaders want support from the U.S. and Europe against China, based on shared values, they need to defend those values anywhere in the world.

Rather than focusing so much on infrastructure spending in the country’s heartland, Prime Minister Narendra Modi should help workers find better opportunities elsewhere. 

As a statement of accounts, it makes for grim reading. But a strong emphasis on green growth may offer the country the economic narrative it’s been lacking.

Moves to undermine the British Broadcasting Corporation threaten what to this day remains the former imperial power’s most powerful tool of global influence. 

While the vaccine-making technology has had impressive results, new shots that are simpler to make and easier to store may hold the key to ending the global pandemic.

They need only look to archrival Pakistan to see how ignoring a rising tide of religious extremism will only make it harder for the country to attract much-needed investment.

Even now the country isn’t producing enough workers. With its population set to peak sooner than expected, it could soon face an unfolding demographic disaster. 

The U.S. may have caused major damage to its policy in the region by excluding some countries that are being courted by China.

One thing poor nations have learned in the pandemic is that they shouldn’t count on access to life-saving innovations. The world can’t afford a repeat with green technologies. 

Instead, countries that can afford to fund their own decarbonization should look for ways to funnel money to emerging nations so they, too, can speed up their energy transitions.