The Centre for Financial Accountability, a New Delhi-based organisation working to strengthen and improve financial accountability within India, invites students and researchers to participate in an essay competition on the topic of Interrogating the...
International finance and geopolitics are quite dynamic and will tend to alter each day. We must have a clear view of our nation and where it stands in this landscape.
Banks and financial institutions in India have no internal mechanisms to address the broader costs of investing in risky projects.
The establishment of the Inspection Panel marked a significant development, driven by the pressure exerted by people's movements and civil society organizations (CSOs), during a period when the World Bank Group operated under the...
October 19, 2023 The undersigned organizations are gravely concerned about the recent media report of child sexual abuse at Bridge International Academies in Kenya, and allegations that the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC)...
India has been the poster boy of the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business as it leaped in the ranking by rapidly deregulating its economy. Environmental regulations were scaled back, labour regulations diluted...
Three years after discontinuing the Doing Business report, the World Bank Group is introducing a new corporate flagship publication called the Business Ready (B-READY) report.
तीस साल पहले नर्मदा बचाओ आंदोलन के विरोध के चलते विश्व बैंक को अपनी परियोजनाओं के प्रभावों की जांच करने के लिए एक स्वतंत्र निरिक्षण पैनल की स्थापना करनी पड़ी थी। ये पैनल कितना...
30 years ago, Narmada Bachao Andolan forced the World Bank to set up a permanent system to look into allegations against projects funded by it.
The World Bank’s private sector arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), plays a significant role in influencing private financial flows. As the “largest global development institution focused on the private sector”, the IFC aims...
The infrastructure finance update for the month of March 2023 covers mostly updates from the sectors of roads and highways, smart cities, ports and logistics. The government is making significant investments and working to...
Shockingly, World Bank estimated this using a private firm CMIE’s surveys, because Indian government wouldn’t collect household consumption data, lest it reveals the ugly truth
The derailment began in 1991, with the World Bank, an IMF loan, and the liberalisation, privatisation, and globalisation agenda.
As of last year, financial institutions from India were the third-largest investors out of six countries financing 80% of the world’s coal investments. A 2021 report found that ICICI, the State Bank of India,...
In the passing away of Vimalbhai on August 15, CFA lost a friend, comrade and fellow traveller. A tireless campaigner, poet, artist, a go-to-person for every protest in Delhi for people’s movements across the...
