The Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5.2), on formulating a Global Plastics Treaty (GPT) held in Geneva from 5–14 August 2025, ended without any treaty. An overwhelming majority of the countries rejected the idea of the...
Working with the Centre for Financial Accountability offers the chance to challenge dominant narratives about finance
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Press Release Telangana State Energy Finance Conference 2025 September 25 | CESS, Hyderabad Hyderabad, Telangana: The Telangana State Energy Finance Conference 2025, was conducted today, 25 September 2025 at the Centre for Economic and Social...
Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) is happy to announce recipients of the 8th Smitu Kothari Fellowship for young writers. The 11 recipients for 2025 come from diverse backgrounds and experiences, and hail from different...
Infrastructure Finance Update I 22nd September, 2025 Across India, land is being diverted in the name of infrastructure and growth. Fertile farms, forests and community commons are routinely handed over to corporations and private...
Fishing and farming families in Gujarat took on the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank Group’s private-sector lending arm, for funding the destructive Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Power Plant. The project devastated local...
The GST Council’s rate reductions are being hailed as a relief for consumers, but the timing makes the move look reactive rather than reformist. If the intent was truly to ease burdens on households,...
The World Bank’s Empire: Exploitation and the Fightback Prafulla Samantara, founder of the Lok Shakti Abhiyan and Goldman Environmental Prize Laureate (2017), speaks at the Independent People’s Tribunal: World Bank on Trial on “The...
Civil society organisations, people’s movements, and individual activists have submitted a detailed appeal to banks, urging them to withhold investment in the proposed Anuppur Thermal Power Project in Madhya Pradesh. The plant is being...
On urgent loan relief for households, individuals and small enterprises hit by the 2025 monsoon disasters To: Governor, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) • Chairpersons/CEOs of Scheduled Commercial Banks • Heads of NBFCs and Microfinance...
You, Me & the Economy Standing Up To The Empire: Reclaiming Southern Multilateralism I In conversation with Shalmali Guttal In this episode, Senior Analyst Shalmali Guttal addresses the fundamental question: Is the global economy...
You, Me & the Economy Standing Up To The Empire: Reclaiming Southern Multilateralism I In conversation with Biswajit Dhar In this episode, economist Biswajit Dhar examines how the concept of multilateralism has never truly...
Exposing the World Bank: Colonial Contracts, Capitalist Profits, and the Fight from Below Medha Patkar, founder of the Narmada Bachao Andolan and leader of the National Alliance of People’s Movements, spoke on “Exposing the...
Personal income tax collections have once again overtaken corporate tax revenues in India. At first glance, this looks like a success story of formalisation, digitisation, and better tax compliance. More people are filing returns,...
