Who Gains, Who Loses? Rethinking India’s Global Trade Moves

India is reportedly planning to open parts of its massive $700+ billion public procurement market to foreign companies, starting with the U.K. and the U.S. This marks a big policy shift. The government claims...

Read more May 31, 2025 at 11:14 am CFA

अधोसंरचना विकास के नाम पर कर्ज का दर्द

वर्ष 2005 में नगर निगम जबलपुर ने शहर में सीवर लाइन व नाला निर्माण वाटर ड्रेनेज योजना के नाम पर एशियन डेवलपमेंट बैंक से 196 करोड़ का कर्ज लिया था।न तो सीवर लाइन का...

Read more April 17, 2025 at 9:47 am Raj Kumar Sinha

स्वास्थ्य सेवाओं तक सभी की पहुंच सुनिश्चित हो

भारत के संविधान का अनुच्छेद 21 जीवन और व्यक्तिगत स्वतंत्रता के मौलिक अधिकार की गारंटी देता है और राज्य के नीति निर्देशक सिद्धांत (अनुच्छेद 38, 39, 42, 43 और 47) स्वास्थ्य के अधिकार को...

Read more April 7, 2025 at 12:01 pm Raj Kumar Sinha

Where has the money gone in the last 10 years?

Can you see that the entire country is run by three business magnets? There are a few more. As told by the former Chief Executive of Niti Ayog, Amitabh Kant, they are creating 5...

Read more May 1, 2024 at 2:51 pm Thomas Franco

Banking Industry gets Wage Revision – Settlement Signed

Bankers have successfully achieved their dream of five-day work along with wage revision with the help of their unions, but there is more than meets the eye. Let’s get into the details and understand...

Read more March 13, 2024 at 9:00 am Thomas Franco

Relooking the Past Decade of Indian Economy: Article Series with The Wire

What have the past ten years meant in the transformation of the Indian economy for the citizens of the country?

Read more January 15, 2024 at 3:50 pm The Wire & CFA

Fund with a heart

Banks need to fully assess the risks and engage with the local communities and seek free, prior and informed consent before investing in projects.

Read more January 1, 2024 at 12:17 pm Amitanshu Verma & Nancy Pathak

Average 30 Farmer Suicides Per Day in Modi Govt Years Points to a Systemic Apathy

The attempt by neoliberal governance has been to steadily depoliticise farmers' suicides and strip them of any deeper messaging.

Read more December 18, 2023 at 12:12 pm Anirban Bhattacharya, Pranay Raj and Nancy Pathak

भारत के वित्तीय संस्थानों में पर्यावरण और सामाजिक जवाबदेही नीतियों की आवश्यकता

ज़्यादातर देशों द्वारा बड़े स्तर की विकास परियोजनाओं को आर्थिक और सामाजिक विकास के लिए अपरिहार्य माना जाता है। यह दृष्टिकोण भारत में भी अधिक मान्य है।

Read more November 28, 2023 at 5:35 pm Priya Dharshini and Amitanshu Verma

Tipping the Scales: Why We Need to Tax the Ultra-Rich Tipping the Scales

An article series published in Deccan Herald, curated in collaboration with the Centre for Financial Accountability.

Read more November 27, 2023 at 9:27 am CFA

A Decade of Write-Offs: How the Govt and Banks Failed to Tackle NPAs and Helped Big Corporations

The government has time and again stated that ‘write off’ does not mean relief to the borrower as recovery processes continue. But in practice, banks are compelled to forgo any hope of recovery.

Read more October 31, 2023 at 11:56 am Devidas Tuljapurakar

Changing Financial Architecture

Does configuration or reconfiguration of a nation’s financial system, which is comprised of financial institutions and markets, imply its growth and welfare? The question has a lot of gravity since it helps reconfiguring and/or...

Read more August 11, 2023 at 11:35 am Himanshu Damle

Mind the wealth gap, bridge it with wealth tax

Inequality in India is at obscene levels. While still home to a very large number of people living in destitution, the number of dollar billionaires in India increased from one in the mid-1990s to...

Read more June 8, 2023 at 3:26 pm Ishan Anand and Anjana Thampi

फिर से नोटेबंदी का वार | हमारा पैसा हमारा हिसाब

किसी देश की करेंसी या मुद्रा बस विनिमय का माध्यम नहीं बल्कि उसकी विश्वसनीयता और आर्थिक मज़बूती को भी बयां करती है। लेकिन हमारी सरकार ने एक बार फिर से इनके साथ खिलवाड़ किया।...

Read more May 26, 2023 at 12:20 pm CFA

Greed has made US banks crash again. Will we learn some lessons! THE MONEY TRAIL

Greed has made the US banks crash again. This time Bond markets failed them. Indian banks are also more into markets while discouraging the public with hefty bank charges, closing rural branches and denying...

Read more March 20, 2023 at 11:56 am CFA