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 governmentās announcement in...
MUMBAI, India ā The Asian Infrastructure Investment BankĀ on Monday announced support for Indiaās National Investment and Infrastructure Fund. The $100 million equity investment is the first phase of funding for NIIF, a collaborative platform...
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, which meets in Mumbai this week, needs to prove that its clients have robust social, environmental and disclosure policies and practices. Along the route from Mumbaiās international airport in...
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....
At ā¹2,797 crore, Stateās share second highest; nil funding for coal-based projects Tamil Nadu is among the States which saw significant lending to renewable energy projects and nil lending to coal projects in 2017,...
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...
āAIIBās proposed $ 200 million deal with Indiaās $2.1 billion National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) would threaten to revive a host of stalled projects in the country potentially including coal, power, petroleum, railways...
Mumbai, June 23: āThe so-called ‘development’ must not come at the cost of constitutional rights,ā said prominent activist and Goldman Environment Awardee Prafulla Samantra at the press conference, which was organised on the last...
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 is an environmental category...
Ha-Joon Chang, the Cambridge economist, holds that ā95% of economics is common sense, made to look difficult, with the use of jargons and mathematicsā. That may explain why common people engage less with matters...
Protest mounts against bankās $200-million offer for proposed $2.1-billion NIIF With the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) board getting ready to hold its third annual general meeting in the city on June 25 and...
Industrial Corridors are spreading like a plague in this country. Paralyzing the democratic and participatory framework achieved till now through various people’s movements. This workshop will be able to demystify the plans, proposals, and...
It is important to analyse and reflect upon these financial institutions and how their projects have fueled inequality throughout the world. The workshop would have speakers who would speak on various financial institutions and...
This workshop enabled discussions on IFI model of reforms in water supply services, including privatisation/ PPPs and commercialisation. The discussion also included the concepts of right to water and its implementation at the community...
The workshop primarily looked at the role IFIs are playing in shaping urban infrastructure finance and policy in India. The approaches and methodologies that have been used by the private sector to create alliances...