The Demographic Shift & Policy Imperative - Unlike many ageing societies that grew rich before they grew old, India is ageing at lower income levels and with large informal labour markets. The challenge is stark - how to secure dignified, affordable, and inclusive eldercare while sustaining economic growth and social cohesion.

Care financing is being redesigned across the world. Countries are testing innovative tools, from impact bonds to pooled national care funds. Explore the models in one place. The first in a 5 part series on Financing Caring Futures: Compendium Of Care Financing Instruments & potential pathways for India.

India has more than 153 million elderly population today but no eldercare system. Public sector solutions are scattered and underfunded. Private sector solutions remain urban and niche. What will it take to shift from aspirations without architecture to an equitable functional eldercare system in India? Explore whats coming up in this special series designed to chart the move to a functional eldercare system

Part 2 of the Series - Invisible Infrastructure Underwriting India’s Economic Development looks at why India’s Care Financing Deficit is not just a policy oversight, it’s a structural risk. As public investment stagnates and private care costs soar, the burden falls unfairly on unpaid and underpaid labour. This article exposes the cracks in care financing and why investing in the care economy is essential for equity, productivity, and growth.

This article is the first in the 3-Part series on The Invisible Infrastructure Underwriting India’s Economic Development The trilogy also...

Across the world, countries are investing in care as infrastructure — to drive growth, create jobs, and stabilise their futures. India is missing the moment. In Part 3 of Invisible Infrastructure Underwriting India’s Economic Development series, the-ZURI explores global care strategy shifts and what they signal for India’s economic path.

India’s EV transition is moving at speed. But is it taking everyone along? The ZURI Policy Accelerator launches a new Lever Edition — a 12-month, 18-part inquiry into how gender equity can be embedded in the design of India’s EV policy. Featuring 12 articles and 6 gender responsiveness scorecards (ZURI Prism), this edition is a roadmap for policymakers, donors, think tanks & investors shaping India’s mobility future.

The EV transition powered by the EV Policy, is not just technological — it is economic, spatial, and social. This opening article surfaces the exclusions shaping India’s EV policies today — in vehicle design, workforce participation, charging infrastructure, and access to capital. It also introduces five structural levers that will guide this Lever Edition’s inquiry into a gender-responsive, inclusive mobility transition.

Care powers our economies, but remains invisible in our policies, budgets, and data. Caring Futures, a new 6-part ZURI Lever Inaugural Edition reframes care as economic infrastructure. Drawing on global models and India’s own realities, it offers a decision maker’s guide to designing equitable, resilient care systems.