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Rajev Kapoor

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Rajev Kapoor examines demographic shifts and urbanization trends in high-growth regions. He provides regional outlooks focusing on consumer markets and labor dynamics.

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Investment And Fdi

Reshaping the Growth Engine of the Global South: FDI Flows, Industrial Transfers, and Long-Term Structural Opportunities

In-depth analysis of the structural changes in current global FDI flows, exploring the strategic position of Global South countries in industrial relocation, the digital economy, and green transformation. From demographic structure to supply chain reshaping, examine the underlying drivers and policy risks for the long-term growth of emerging markets.

Rajev Kapoor3 min read
Insights

The Long-Term Game Between Emerging Market Structural Transformation and Productivity Growth: Reshaping the Path from Manufacturing-Driven to Sustainable Development

In-depth analysis of the long-term impact of structural transformation in emerging markets on long-term productivity and sustainable development. Discuss the role of manufacturing in inclusive growth, the risks of premature deindustrialization, and how to achieve inclusive growth through industrial policy and low-carbon technologies.

Rajev Kapoor2 min read
Policy And Risk

Paradigm Shift in AI Reasoning-Enhanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): From Semantic Gap to Intelligent Query Rewriting

Delve into how the NVIDIA Llama Nemotron model bridges the gap between user intent and knowledge base semantics through Query Rewriting technology, significantly enhancing the accuracy, robustness, and complexity handling capabilities of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), signaling the future direction of next-generation enterprise AI applications.

Rajev Kapoor3 min read
Regional Focus

From Retrieval Strategies to Knowledge Sovereignty: How Global South Research Can Break Free from Dependence on Northern Databases

A deep analysis aimed at emerging market research and the development of academic infrastructure in the Global South. Taking the design of systematic review search strategies as its entry point, it explores why Global South research has long been shaped by Global North databases, English-language retrieval paradigms, and bibliometric power structures, and proposes the practical significance of building autonomous knowledge retrieval systems in the South for investment research, policymaking, and judgments about long-term growth.

Rajev Kapoor6 min read
Policy And Risk

Information governance is becoming infrastructure: How the Global South allocates long-term capital in the era of disinformation

A policy assessment by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace shows that no single anti-disinformation tool simultaneously meets all three conditions: being well-supported by research, having significant effects, and being easy to scale. For emerging markets, this means that information integrity has been upgraded from a media issue to a component of digital public infrastructure and long-term growth capacity.

Rajev Kapoor7 min read
Policy And Risk

China's official external loans are not a "debt trap"? — New evidence from a risk study on Global South countries

The latest research based on panel data from 115 countries shows that China's official foreign loans and their components significantly reduce the country risk of host nations, functioning through channels that promote economic growth and social stability, with more pronounced effects in low-income and low-skilled countries. This study provides an empirical foundation for reexamining the relationship between infrastructure financing in the Global South and development resilience.

Rajev Kapoor6 min read
Investment And Fdi

Behind the 14% rebound in global FDI: financial pipeline boom and the marginalization of the Global South

According to the latest UNCTAD data, global foreign direct investment grew by 14% in 2025, but the growth was concentrated in developed economies and capital-intensive sectors such as data centers, while developing economies and least developed countries continued to be marginalized. This article analyzes this structural divergence from the perspective of the Global South.

Rajev Kapoor5 min read