According to recent news published on the Business Standard, the leading banks of India are designing a scheme for bailing out stressed assets in the power sector, which, as per the latest report of Parliamentary Standing Committee on...
While it is generally accepted that social protection is a core public service, the design of national systems is highly contested. There are two broad camps in the debate: one regards social protection as...
The Council on Ethics for the Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), an independent body of the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, that makes recommendations to the Norges Bank with regards to either excluding companies...
International law and human rights law experts are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear our clients’ case, Jam v. International Finance Corporation challenging the immunity of the International Finance Corp. (IFC), the private...
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...
A three-day workshop on ‘Environment Social and Development Finance: Dimensions of Sustainable Energy’ was jointly organised by National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM), Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA), and PAIRVI in Hyderabad, with the...
भारत की पावर कम्पनियो को मिला जनवरी 2014 से सितम्बर 2017 के बीच 3.79 लाख करोड से भी अधिक का कर्ज। विदेशी व्यवसायिक बैकों ने भारत की पावर कम्पनियो मे किया 84,206 करोड का...
For immediate release How International Investors Can Stop Rampal Power Project, the World’s Most Dangerous Coal Plant Report Shines a Light on Hidden Backers of World’s Most Destructive Coal Project October 12, 2017, New...
September 27, 2017, Mundra, Gujarat: Fishing communities and farmers affected by Tata Mundra said on Friday that they would approach the U.S. Supreme Court to review the decision of U.S. Court of Appeals for...
We all know of the killing impacts of coal based power plants – from the massive air pollution, from water contamination and from the dirty coal mines. As per the “State of Global Air...
August 23, 2017, New Delhi: “The corruption in the power sector is in the tune of over one lakh crore,” said senior journalist and author Paranjoy Guha Thakurta. The former editor of EPW and...
For Immediate Release After a Judge declared World Bank immunity cases “wrongly decided,” the communities affected by the Tata Mundra project approach US court to review “absolute immunity” doctrine Communities harmed by Tata Mundra...
A group of civil society organisations, which has reviewed, and analysed the 2017 draft of the National Energy Policy (NEP), submitted its comments and suggestions from the financial perspective for improving the draft of...
Like India once had a Ministry of Disinvestment, it’s time she has a Ministry of Loss Making. How else can one understand government’s eagerness to buy out all loss making projects, whether in coal,...
