Demystifying International Financial Institutions
Demystifying International Financial Institutions: Understanding their influence on policies and development in India, with a deep-dive on Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank The workshop is being co-hosted by Citizen consumer and civic Action Group (CAG), Chennai, Center for Financial Accountability...
Killing from Within: The New Phase of Privatisation
Save Public Sector Banks Series Public Meeting: Kill from Within: The New Phase of Privatisation Date: June 5, 2018 Venue: ICSA, Egmore Chennai Speakers: Shri K.E. Raghunathan, AIMO Shri D. Thomas Franco, AIBOC Selvi Priya Dharshini, CFA Shri C.P....
Peoples’ Convention on Infrastructure Financing: A Peoples’ response to AIIB’s Third Annual Governors Meeting
The Third Annual Governors Meeting of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank will be held in Mumbai, India from 24-25 June 2018. This two-year-old multilateral bank is investing in all major sectors, including energy, without robust policies on environmental-social safeguards,...
Infrastructure Funds in India How Do We Challenge the New Model
Infrastructure Funds in Asia: How Do We Challenge the New Model? In India, the IFC-backed India Infrastructure Fund supported the GMR Kamalanga plant which displaced local communities and caused environmental harms. Now the AIIB is investing in infrastructure funds...
Infrastructure and Development – Case of Amravati Capital City
Infrastructure and Development – Case of Amaravati Capital City The workshop aims to explore the environmental, economic, legal, political, cultural and social implications of Amaravati Capital City project in Andhra Pradesh. This pipeline project of AIIB and World Bank...
Challenging Legal Impunity granted to IFIs
Challenging Immunity of IFIs The immunity enjoyed by IFI’s like the World Bank Group raises pertinent questions around the extent of immunity granted to these institutions which obstruct people’s fundamental right to access justice where people’s right to life...