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
The Union Budget 2021-22, presented on 1st February, focused majorly on infrastructure sector to increase economic growth rates by initiating several new projects and announcing the setting up of a Development Finance Institution for...
The infrastructure sector remains to be the priority area for investment of the current government to undertake the economic recovery in the post-pandemic times. To press ahead with the projects in this sector last...
After making a pledge in the Paris Agreement to increase the share of renewable energy, India is not only pushing large scale renewable energy projects including solar and wind projects, but it has also...
Infrastructure Finance Update November 2020 National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP) continues to be the focal point to drive the infrastructure sector in the country. Recently the Central Government has decided to infuse ₹6,000 crore of...
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,...
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...