अडानी के घाटे को जनता की जेब पर थोपती सरकार
लोकसभा चुनाव के बीच, केद्रिंय विधुत विनियामक आयोग ने अडानी मुद्रां पावर परियोजना की 2000 मेगावाट यूनिट का तय टैरिफ 2.80 रुपए से बढाकर 3.10 रुपए करने का आदेश जारी कर दिया है। इसका...
Snippets from the World of International Financial Institutions – April, 2019
The New World Bank President The annual Spring Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was held in Washington DC this year with...
Over 50 Organisations From The World Ask Japan To Stop Funding Coal
In full-page advertisements in the Financial Times and Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest daily newspaper, 50 reputed organisations, working on environment and accountability related issues, from across the world have appealed to Shinzo Abe to...
The Economics Of Julian Assange’s Arrest
Yesterday Julian Assange, co-founder of Wikileaks, was arrested from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he took refuge seven years back, after the Ecuadorian government’s withdrawal of asylum. Interestingly, exactly a month back, on...
Bridge The Borders: Connect Asia And Beyond! A Brief Review of AIIB’s Report
India’s ballooning NPA and banking crisis is a testimony to the reality whereby infrastructure projects have not only failed to bring in private capital, but have instead managed to siphon off small savers’ money...
Historic Verdict On The Immunity Of IFIs Celebrated
March 31, 2019, Mundra, Gujarat: In an afternoon with 41-degree heat, hundreds of men, women, and children from Navinal and Tagri villages of Kutch, and members from the civil society and peoples’ movements from across...
Indian Economy In Deep Troubles: Stock-taking of the Previous Financial Year
The Financial Year 2018-19, which recently ended, proved to be the most challenging year for the financial world. The first and foremost challenge was the introduction of the Financial Regulatory and Deposit Insurance Bill...
Banks Invested $1.9 trillion On Fossil Fuels Since The Paris Agreement
Executive summary from the report Banking on Climate Change, Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card 2019. The report is prepared by Rainforests Action Network, BankTrack, Sierra Club, Oil Change, Indigenous Environmental Network, Honour The Earth. This year, 163...
Infrastructure Finance in India and the Public Private Partnerships
It is being emphasised quite often that the infrastructure sector is a crucial driver for the Indian economy. The sector would be responsible for propelling India’s overall development and enjoys intense focus from the...
Humanity Absent from World’s most Acclaimed Development Report
The World Development Report (WDR) is the World Bank’s development research and policy review report published annually. Started by IBRD since 1978, this report is intended to provide deep and extensive analysis on one...
Between 2015-2018, India Paid Around Rs 400 Crore As Commitment Charges
Answering to a question in the parliament, Pon Radhakrishnan, the Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance, revealed that between the financial year 2015-2018, India paid Rs 396.775 crore as Commitment Charges to the...
What Are The Bank Charges And Whom Do They Affect?
To access the banking system through various platforms/processes, banks provide different kind of services to depositors. Bank charge is a fee that banks charge depositors to access these banking services. Recently, banks have started...
Q&As on Finance in the 2019 Budget Session of the Parliament
The budget session of the parliament witnessed the members asking government questions related to finance. Some of these questions were related to the NPAs, rationalisation of the overseas branches of the banks, charges levied...
Big Business Captured the Negotiations in Katowice
The Paris Rulebook (renamed the ‘Katowice Rulebook’ by many), the outcome of 24th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP24), exposes the perils of a pledge-and-review system. In...
ADB was the Biggest Lender to India in 2018
As per the Early Warning System, which collects and verify information about the proposed and existing projects, India, in 2018, had 112 active or proposed projects funded by Development Finance Institutions (DFIs). These institutions...
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