With large infrastructure projects at the core of its investment support strategy, it is essential for the AIIB to ensure that their funds are directed to sustainable investments. In a country like India, where...
To, Shri. M.M. Kutty Executive Director, India Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank March 14, 2018 Subject: AIIB’s proposed investment in National Investment and Infrastructure Fund Dear Shri M.M. Kutty, We are writing with regard to the AIIB’s...
A latest report has asked Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) to “tread carefully” on National Infrastructure and Investment Fund (NIIF), a fund of fund that seeks to create long-term value for domestic and international...
February 2, 2018, Amsterdam, and New Delhi: The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) must “tread very carefully” before approving a new USD 200 million deal with India in April 2018, for fear of turning the key on some highly controversial...
Financing the future? AIIB and India’s National Investment and Infrastructure Fund
This month in Infrastructure Finance Update it appears that the discussions on a new Development Finance Institution (DFI) continue. It has been noted that earlier “Development Finance Institutions (DFIs), such as ICICI, IDBI, IFCI...
In the month of August, many deals and decisions were made in the energy sector by the Ministry of Power despite the impacts of the pandemic and the ensuing lockdown on the power sector....
(Infrastructure Finance Update is a monthly feature by CFA on the infrastructure sector with focus on financing. The feature is based on the monitoring of trends in infrastructure space through news reports, media coverage,...
Since the inception of the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC), concerns have been raised by the local communities in different states about the large projects being implemented under it and their serious impacts on the...
This mapping document looks at infrastructure sector in India, its basic concepts, estimates by the Government of India, the World Bank (WB), Asian Development Bank (ADB), International Finance Corporation (IFC), Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank...
Counterview Desk The Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA), a Delhi-based advocacy group, commenting on the Union budget 2020-21, has has called it a case of missing wood for the trees, pointing out, Finance Minister...
The budget missed an opportunity to fix the economy, which is reeling under an unprecedented slowdown, with all indices pointing towards a recession. This was one of the much-anticipated budget, given that the country...
AIIB’s newly wrapped ESG investments: Asia ESG Enhanced Credit Managed Portfolio Project After fifty investments being approved and many more in pipeline, along with much criticism against India’s Infrastructure Fund , National Infrastructure Investment...
In the past several years, infrastructure has become a focus sector in the Indian economy as it is expected to boost overall development. Infrastructure continues to attract attention not only from the government but...
Kerala became the first state to enter into a state partnership with World Bank based on their new Country Partnership Framework 2018-22. The partnership is for a development policy loan of USD 500 million...