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Asian Development Bank

ADB’s Compliance of its Safeguard Policies in the Tata Mundra Project

The northern coast of the Gulf of Kutch has been witnessing large-scale industrialization for the past two decades while a very large Special Economic Zone is also situated in the vicinity. Among several polluting...

Read more July 16, 2021 at 1:06 pm CFA

Infrastructure Projects in India: The Landscape of Financiers

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...

Read more February 9, 2020 at 7:12 pm Gaurav Dwivedi

Snippets from the World of International Finance

Government prepares  for more reforms to ensure India comes in the top 50 in ease of doing business rankings India currently occupies 63rd position in the rankings of the World Bank in doing business....

Read more January 13, 2020 at 5:59 pm Tani Alex

Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project: A decade of disemPOWERing communities

Almost a decade after the construction for the Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project and eight years since the operations of the project started, a revisit to Mundra tells the story of the destruction...

Read more December 11, 2019 at 6:44 am Anuradha Munshi

Snippets from the World of International Finance

IFC’s Opportunistic $ 24.7 trillion Global Green Investment Plan Adding to the global narrative on low-carbon investments, World Bank Groups’ private lending arm International Finance Corporation’s recent report – Green Buildings: A Finance and...

Read more December 8, 2019 at 6:03 pm Tani Alex

Booklet: Smart Cities Mission in India: Footprints of IFIs

This booklet is a first in a series that looks to provide an overview of the smart cities at a conceptual level, smart cities mission in India, development of smart cities globally, the role...

Read more July 26, 2019 at 9:15 pm Gaurav Dwivedi

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...

Read more February 8, 2019 at 8:37 pm Ankit Agrawal

Case Study: Why are the Farmers of a Power-Surplus State Like Tamil Nadu Resisiting High Tension Lines and Towers?

The Transmission System Strengthening Project is a project to expand the interstate transmission network in western and southern India. The project, partly funded by ADB and AIIB (as co-financer) along with the Power Grid...

Read more August 9, 2018 at 5:09 pm Elizabeth Summers

Development must not Happen at the Cost of Constitutional Rights

Mumbai, June 23: “The so-called ‘development’ must not come at the cost of constitutional rights,” said prominent activist and Goldman Environment Awardee Prafulla Samantra at the press conference, which was organised on the last...

Read more June 24, 2018 at 6:58 pm CFA

‘Unchecked borrowing to put Andhra Pradesh in debt trap’

Express News Service, VIJAYAWADA:  Expressing concern over the unchecked borrowing from different banks and funding agencies across the globe by the TDP Government in the State, experts from National Association of People’s Movements (NAPM)...

Read more June 10, 2018 at 12:34 pm The New Indian Express

The Trends in Hydro Power Financing in India

There has been a worldwide growth in hydropower development, with 31.5 GW new capacity installed in 2016. This figure includes 6.4 GW of pumped storage – nearly double the previous year – while there...

Read more May 13, 2018 at 10:28 am Rajesh Kumar

Three Things on ADB’s to-do List, According to Civil Society Organisations

MANILA — The Asian Development Bank will finalize its new long-term strategy in July, but Strategy 2030 still needs plenty of tweaking, according to civil society organizations present at ADB’s 51st Annual Meeting in...

Read more May 7, 2018 at 11:13 am Devex

Big Push for the Development of Hydropower in India

There has been a worldwide growth in hydropower development, with 31.5 GW new capacity installed in 2016. This figure includes 6.4 GW of pumped storage – nearly double the previous year – while there...

Read more May 4, 2018 at 4:59 pm Rajesh Kumar

Booklet: Tentacles of the International Finance in India

This document is an effort to compile data of investments coming into India from MDBs, ExIm banks and other bilateral investments, to help understand the landscape of financing from these institutions and helping to...

Read more March 10, 2018 at 10:49 am CFA

Huge Overlap in Investments by MDBs, ExIM Banks, and Bilaterals on Critical Sectors

Ever since the first lending from World Bank in 1949 worth $34 million to Indian Railways and the bilateral credit India received from the erstwhile USSR and USA in the early 50s, India has...

Read more March 10, 2018 at 12:46 am Joe Athialy
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