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International Finance Corporation

Case Against IFC at US Supreme Court: Disappointed with the outcome; Quest for Justice Continues

Landmark corporate accountability case resulted in critical reforms for the World Bank’s lending arm. April 26, 2022 New Delhi:  Last evening India time, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition from a fishing community...

Read more April 26, 2022 at 12:38 pm CFA

World Bank’s Doing Business Report is Just the Tip of the Iceberg!

In September, the World Bank announced that it would discontinue the publication of the Doing Business Report and Ranking (DBR). This overdue decision came after a series of internal audits and an investigation that...

Read more October 13, 2021 at 12:17 pm CFA

Indian Civil Society Groups Announce “World Without World Bank” Action Week

Highlight the Impacts on Key Sectors in India During IMF-WB 2020 Annual Meetings Date: 12 October, 2020 New Delhi: People’s Movements, Civil Society Groups, and concerned citizens are coming together to protest the World...

Read more October 12, 2020 at 8:36 pm CFA

Comments from India, Myanmar & Philippines on the Report

& Recommendations from the External Review of IFC/MIGA E&S Accountability, including CAO’s Role & Effectiveness We welcome the opportunity to comment on the report of the external review team. At the outset, the recommendations...

Read more September 22, 2020 at 7:34 pm CFA

Comments by Indian Groups on Recommendations

of External Review of IFC/MIGA E&S Accountability, including CAO’s Role and Effectiveness After 20 years of its existence, the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) and International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) social and environmental accountability review has...

Read more September 22, 2020 at 3:31 pm CFA

World Bank pushing privatisation in fisheries sector through Blue Revolution Program ?

I. Yet another Loan for India for response to the Covid-19 crisis India received yet another external loan for dealing with the Covid 19 crisis. Japan announced an emergency support loan of up to...

Read more September 9, 2020 at 7:08 pm Anuradha Munshi

CSO Comments on Operationalizing Reforms to the Inspection Panel, including the creation of a new Accountability Mechanism

The process of the World Bank reforming the Inspection Panel (IPN) to adapt it to the changing environment, the newly adopted Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) started in 2017.  The World Bank’s Committee on...

Read more August 29, 2020 at 12:36 pm CFA

CSO Space during the 5th Annual Meeting

Civil society groups from across the globe wrote to the President of AIIB Jin Liqun raised concerns during the global pandemic and demanded accountability and transparency from AIIB during this pandemic. With the government’s in...

Read more August 29, 2020 at 12:36 pm CFA

Tata Mundra: Case against IFC dismissed in the lower court. Will move appeal soon

On August 24 evening, a federal court ruled that the World Bank Group cannot be sued for any damage caused by its lending–despite last year’s Supreme Court ruling in the same case that these...

Read more August 26, 2020 at 3:56 pm CFA

The Corona Pandemic, Debt and Default

The world was witnessing a massive buildup of debt, even before the pandemic began. World Bank described it as the largest, fastest and most broad based amounting to 230 percentage of the Global GDP. ...

Read more August 26, 2020 at 2:47 pm Maju Varghese

Updates from IMF: Forecast for Post-COVID Economy and Debt Levels

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released two updates in the month of June – first was the World Economic Outlook, titled A Crisis Like No Other, An Uncertain Recovery and another was the Financial...

Read more July 15, 2020 at 9:07 am Maju Varghese

Indian groups reject World Bank’s concept note for World Development Report 2021: “Data for better Lives”

The annual World Development Report (WDR) is a flagship publication of the World Bank. The 2021 WDR report is in the process of being drafted and is titled “Data for Better Lives”. The Bank...

Read more July 3, 2020 at 9:33 pm CFA

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
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