Development and India’s Economic Multilateralism: Where from? … Where To?

The Financing for Development (FFD) process and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) process are some of the recent events in the realm of economic multilateralism in the United Nations (UN). India, on its part, has always engaged with the UN and global multilateral processes. This study seeks to focus on India’s diplomacy on FFD and SDGs in the context of its long history of engaging with global economic governance through the UN. It begins by highlighting the significance of the multilateral for India, then moves on to a detailed discussion of the FDD and SDG processes, and finally to continuity and change in India’s economic multilateral engagements. The monograph concludes by highlighting the significance of India for the multilateral and focussing on the policy implications deriving from these analyses.

About the Author

Arpita Anant is an Associate Fellow at MP-IDSA. Her current area of research is India’s multilateralism at the United Nations with particular focus on peacekeeping, terrorism and sustainable development. Awarded a PhD in International Politics in 2004 by the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, her doctoral thesis was on Group Rights in the Indian and International Discourses. She was awarded the ICSSR Doctoral Fellowship and the Commonwealth Visiting Fellowship (Canada) during 2001-02 to undertake doctoral research.