In another week, on June 2, Ajay Banga will take over as the 14th president of the World Bank Group, the all-menтАЩs club, except for Kristalina Georgieva, who had become World BankтАЩs acting president...
Note to the readers: This is a mildly edited transcript of the talk given by the author at the World Without World Bank Campaign Week in 2021 at a panel titled тАЬPrivatisation, Commodification and...
Economic, legal, diplomatic and civil society experts тАУ including Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, and former Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank тАУ have urged the United States Supreme Court...
This week, prominent economic, legal, diplomatic, and civil society experts тАУ including Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, and former Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank тАУ submitted amicus briefs urging...
The World Bank has outlined the role it can play as India looks to fund its ambitious National Rail Plan over the next 30 years, which envisages almost 8,000 km of high-speed corridors and...
The Tata group, one of IndiaтАЩs largest conglomerates, promised to be a good neighbor when it took on the job of building the nationтАЩs first тАЬultra megaтАЭ coal-fired power plant.
The plan was to build...
Recently, a piece of good news has appeared that World Bank GroupтАЩs International Finance Corporation (IFC) upholding the right to education in an official commitment and decided to freeze investments in private for-profit pre-primary,...
For immediate release Inspection PanelтАЩs Report on Amaravati Project only Validates the Issues Raised by CSOs July 26, 2019: Confirming the concerns raised by the communities and civil society organisations, Government of India withdrew...
Press Release | July 23, 2019 After the World Bank, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Pulls Out of┬аAmaravati Capital City Project New Delhi: The China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) pulled out of Amaravati Capital...
In its historic decision on 27th Feb 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that international organizations like the World Bank Group тАЬdonтАЩt enjoy absolute immunityтАЭ. Simply put, with this judgement, the World Bank and...
In late February, the US Supreme Court ruled against the claim by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World BankтАЩs private sector arm, to absolute immunity from suit in the US. The case was...
Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project India is part of an ambitious plan, which saw the building of several coal-based thermal power stations to meet IndiaтАЩs energy needs. Located on the western coast of...