Budget 2024: How the Modi Government Has Neglected Social Security Pensions Once Again

There is an urgent need to review the National Social Assistance Programme for it to be effective and meaningful.

Read more February 2, 2024 at 4:29 pm Asmi Sharma

The Carnival Games are Back!

Carnival games are rigged in favour of their owners. It seems ostensibly easy to win. But it isn’t. Somehow you will miss the target or click the wrong tab. So was the Hindenburg expose...

Read more January 30, 2024 at 12:09 pm Jimmy James

Relooking the Past Decade of Indian Economy: Article Series with The Wire

What have the past ten years meant in the transformation of the Indian economy for the citizens of the country?

Read more January 15, 2024 at 3:50 pm The Wire & CFA

How they are Bleeding the Public Sector Banks & Road Ahead

Report of the webinar co-organized by All India Bank Officers Confederation and Centre for Financial Accountability on 26th December 2023.

Read more January 2, 2024 at 4:52 pm CFA

Fund with a heart

Banks need to fully assess the risks and engage with the local communities and seek free, prior and informed consent before investing in projects.

Read more January 1, 2024 at 12:17 pm Amitanshu Verma & Nancy Pathak

Mind the gap: It is time to close the gap in measuring inequality

A panel discussion at the Golden Jubilee Conference of CESP, JNU

Read more December 19, 2023 at 3:32 pm CFA

वित्तीय संस्थानों के लिए पर्यावरण और सामाजिक जवाबदेही नीतियों की आवश्यकता

वित्तीय संस्थानों में पर्यावरण और सामाजिक जवाबदेही नीतियां क्या हैं? ये वित्तीय संस्थानों को उनके द्वारा वित्त पोषित परियोजनाओं के सामाजिक और पर्यावरणीय प्रभावों के लिए जवाबदेह बनाने के लिए तंत्र हैं। वास्तविक प्रावधान...

Read more December 1, 2023 at 4:39 pm CFA

Tipping the Scales: Why We Need to Tax the Ultra-Rich Tipping the Scales

An article series published in Deccan Herald, curated in collaboration with the Centre for Financial Accountability.

Read more November 27, 2023 at 9:27 am CFA

Doubling Farmer’s Income: A Tale of Empty Promises, Deceit and Propaganda

Far from seeing doubled incomes, farmers are caught in the pincer of low unfair prices for their produce and ever rising input costs.

Read more September 18, 2023 at 4:43 pm Vijoo Krishnan

How is writing off Rs.15, 31,453 crore ‘good banking,’ Modiji?

Addressing a Rozgar Mela last month and virtually handing over 70,000 appointment letters (remember the 2 crore jobs per year promise and the vacant 9, 60,000 posts in the union government itself) the prime...

Read more August 2, 2023 at 5:03 pm Thomas Franco

Micron deal: Whose profit, whose loss?

When a deal takes place between two parties, it is supposed to be fruitful for both. But the recent deal with Micron, signed on PM Modi’s visit to the US and initially hailed as...

Read more July 19, 2023 at 1:09 pm Kavita Kabeer

Wealth tax: Keep it simple, tax the 177 dollar billionaires in India

India remains a low-middle-income country, and the bulk of the population ranks low compared to most countries in most indicators of conditions of life.

Read more July 7, 2023 at 2:53 pm Jayati Ghosh

Building a rights-based welfare State in India

Political formations in India have generally come to accept the idea of economic transfers to the poor. The Congress made it a major plank in the recent Karnataka elections. Even the BJP, which favours...

Read more July 7, 2023 at 2:47 pm Prabhat Patnaik

Time to Wind up National Company Law Tribunals

The Financial Stability Report (FSR) released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has certain very damaging revelations. It is surprising that RBI gave thumbs up to them and claimed that non-performing assets (NPAs)...

Read more July 3, 2023 at 5:40 pm Thomas Franco

Bank Unions AIBOC, AIBEA Oppose RBI’s Decision to Allow Compromise Settlement for Wilful Defaulters

All India Bank Officers’ Confederation and All India Bank Employees Association, criticised the recent move by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to allow Banks/lenders to settle loans of wilful defaulters under compromise settlement.