Budget 2025: Income Tax & the Growing Inequality Gap | Finance Matters, 25 January 2025 | Editorial
The Union Budget is only a few days away and speculations that the Income Tax will be reduced is high.
सौर से सस्ती होगी बिजली
भले ही दो दिन बाद सर्वशक्तिमान माने जाने वाले अमरीका का राजपाट एक ऐसे व्यक्ति के हाथों में आ जाए जिसमें जलवायु परिवर्तन पर हुआ ‘पेरिस समझौता’ जरा भी नहीं सुहाता, लेकिन लगातार बढ़ता...
Another Budget, Another Opportunity | Finance Matters, 10 January 2025 | Editorial
We are just around the corner for another budget. The Finance Minister has been consulting regular industry leaders, business associations, and occasional trade unions in preparation for the budget. While memes around the falling...
सामुदायिक निस्तार संसाधनों की अनदेखी
प्राकृतिक संसाधनों और कॉमन्स, जैसे सामुदायिक भूमि, वन, चारागाह और जल निकाय स्थानीय समुदायों के लिए महत्वपूर्ण हैं जो इन संसाधनों पर निर्भर हैं और उनके सतत उपयोग एवं संरक्षण के लिए पीढ़ियों से...
The Magic of Falling NPAs! | Finance Matters | 13 December 2024 | Editorial
A recent investigation by The Indian Express revealed that over 43% of the total non-performing assets (NPA) till March 2019, or Rs. 4.02 lakh crore, was accounted for by just 100 companies. According to...
10 दिसम्बर मानवाधिकार पर विशेषमानवाधिकारों का बचाव,जबाबदेही और पारदर्शिता का अभाव
संयुक्त राष्ट्र की महासभा द्वारा 10 दिसम्बर को मानवाधिकार की एक विश्वव्यापी घोषणा पत्र को अंगीकृत किया गया। मानवाधिकार घोषणा पत्र उन सभी बिंदुओं को समाहित किया गया जो गरिमापूर्ण जीवन जीने के लिए...
World Bank on Trial: Eight charges against World Bank on its 80th year. | Finance Matters, 29 November 2024| Editors Note
As the Bretton Woods Institutions complete 80 years, here are eight charges against them (not in order of the severity of the crimes!). 1. Perpetuator of Climate Crisis: Now championing as a climate saviour...
World Bank’s Ironical 80 years; but why we are more unequal than ever?
Truman – Rostow Club and the Birth of Development Discourse In 1949, U.S. President Harry Truman, in his “Point Four” speech, introduced an influential vision of “development” that charted the course of history toward...
Revisiting Bretton Woods@ 80: Critiques and Calls for Change in Global Development
In 1994, the New York Times described the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) as “overlords of Africa” and ostensibly so the bankers have indeed become overlords of the global south since the globalisation...
Interrogating the World Bank and IMF at 80: Development or hypocrisy?
On their 80th birthday, the colonial legacies of the World Bank (collectively for the IBRD – International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the IDA – International Development Association) and the International Monetary Fund...
In Adani, nobody is clean! | Finance Matters, 22 November 2024 | Editors Note
While the Adani indictment by the US Department of Justice and the US Securities and Exchange Commission “may or may not turn out to be the Modi regime’s Bofors moment”, it vindicates what many...
From CoP to Coal Pit: A Tale of Climate Disconnect | Finance Matters, 15 November 2024 | Editors Note
Singrauli town in Madhya Pradesh is soon to be vanished as Coal India wants to mine the 600 MT of coal lying underneath. Wonder what will happen to Delhi if precious minerals are found...
The Public-Private Partnership Story!
𝗨𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮’𝘀 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 ( 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟬𝘀 – 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁)! This timeline of PPPs in India traces the legal, fiscal, and policy developments that transform the landscape establishing it as a go-to model for...
It is Our Money: Voices for public accountability in the India Social Forum
The India Social Forum was held in Patna from 2nd December to 4th December, was a confluence of social movements and civil society organizations from across India.
Pocket Money
Briefs on what they kept from you about your money this week!
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