Financing For A Robust Energy Regime In India
By Aswathi Nair Along with the unbridled sanctioning of the flow of foreign funds to the country’s energy sector in the bid to be a major driving force in the global energy market (which...
Is Ownership Neutrality A Step Towards Privatisation?
The privatisation of public sector banks has been an issue of debate for a long time. Economic experts are again talking about privatisation of public sector banks (PSBs) due to current non-performing assets (NPAs)...
Who is benefitting from the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train Project?
The information available in public domain is that JICA is financing the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train Project by lending 88 thousand crore rupees at an interest rate of 0.1%. Payback period is 50 years with...
Sucheta Dalal on the Growing Crisis in the Indian Banking Sector
Financial analyst and journalist Sucheta Dalal said that the Indian banking system is at the verge of crisis, reeling under the mounting bad loans, caused by unfettered corporate loans. Referring to government’s announcement in...
Mumbai Resolution on Infrastructure Financing in India
In the political resolution adopted at the end of the People Convention on Infrastructure Financing delegates resolved to challenge the undemocratic and economically unsound functioning of IFIs including AIIB, World Bank, IFC and others....
PSBs Back Coal, Whereas Private-owned Renewables
A new analysis of energy project lending in India shows that majority of government-owned banks and financial institutions continued to fund coal projects in 2017. The same analysis also reveals private financial companies are...
Booklet: Financial Analysis of Delhi Metro after Phase-III
Ha-Joon Chang, the Cambridge economist, holds that ‘95% of economics is common sense, made to look difficult, with the use of jargons and mathematics’. That may explain why common people engage less with matters...
Booklet: The AIIB’s Hands off Approach to Funding Infrastructure
AIIB’s proposed deal with India’s $2.1 billion National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) would also threaten to revive a host of stalled projects in the country potentially including coal, power, petroleum, railways and roads...
AIIB Urged to Reject New $200m Investment in India
For Immediate Release AIIB Urged to Reject New $200m Investment in India Risky venture threatens to open up a host of controversial infrastructure projects The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) Board will be asked...
Government-owned Banks in India Financed More Coal than RE in 2017
June 19, 2018 – A new analysis of energy project lending shows that majority of government owned banks and financial institutions continued to fund coal projects in 2017. The same analysis also reveals private...
Booklet: India 2017 Coal v/s Renewables Finance Analysis
This report identified and reviewed project finance lending to 72 energy projects, comprising coal-fired power stations and renewable energy generation facilities in India that reached financial close in 2017. These projects attracted total lending...
ब्रीफ़िंग पेपर: भारत में जलविद्युत विकास को बड़े पैमाने पर बढ़ावा
इस सेक्टर में निजी क्षत्रे को आकर्षित करने के लिए सरकार ने 2016 में इस पर चर्चा शुरू की कि नवीकरणीय ऊर्जा के क्षत्रे को और विस्तृत किया जाए ताकि 25 मेगावाट क्षमता से...
Booklet: The Trap of Doing Business Rankings
The Doing Business Report and the Ease of Doing Business Index is one of the flagship reports of the World Bank Group, a co-publication of World Bank and International Finance Corporation – the private...
Briefing Paper: Big Push for the Development of Hydropower in India
It is noteworthy that currently, coal-based power projects are under threat due to lack of coal linkages and power purchase agreements, thus stalling many existing power projects and discouraging many companies from expanding to...
‘Unchecked borrowing to put Andhra Pradesh in debt trap’
Express News Service, VIJAYAWADA: Expressing concern over the unchecked borrowing from different banks and funding agencies across the globe by the TDP Government in the State, experts from National Association of People’s Movements (NAPM)...
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