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Ease of doing business or Ease of diluting labour safety? 

On November 1st, 2017 India witnessed one of the largest boiler accidents in recent times. An NTPC plant originally supported by Asian Development Bank met with an accident in their newly built unit. As...

Read more December 26, 2017 at 11:41 am Maju Varghese

The Cost of Ease of Doing Business Ranking

What is diluted, amended, and narrowed down for making it easy for businesses is eroding of the rights of people

Read more December 4, 2017 at 12:23 pm Governance Now

Is IFI influence on economy back with a vengeance?

There was jubilation in the government as the Ease of Doing Business ranked India in the 100th spot, 30 points ahead from last year which is supposed to be the biggest jump by any...

Read more December 2, 2017 at 1:18 pm Maju Varghese

CSOs approach WB on Amaravati Capital City Project

For immediate release  Civil Society Organisations approach World Bank’s Board on the irregularities in Amaravati Capital City Project November 28, 2017, New Delhi: Social Activist Medha Patkar, Former Power Secretary Dr. EAS Sarma, Goldman Prize...

Read more November 29, 2017 at 11:37 am CFA

Letter to the WB on Amaravati Case of Inspection Panel

November 27, 2017   To The Executive Directors, The World Bank Washington DC   Dear Executive Directors, We, the representatives of people’s movements, civil society organisations, and concerned citizens, write to the Board of...

Read more November 27, 2017 at 5:48 pm CFA

World Bank Guidance Leaves Rights Loopholes

The World Bank has spent the past four years overhauling the rules it applies to prevent or mitigate social and environmental harm from the development projects it finances. But human rights are all but...

Read more November 19, 2017 at 1:09 pm Amelia Neumayer

World Bank Reviewing Inspection Panel’s Mandate

A recent article on the much-acclaimed accountability mechanism of World Bank, the Inspection Panel (IP), indicates that all is not well with it and it could get its wings clipped. The discussion on the...

Read more November 12, 2017 at 4:41 pm Tani Alex

The Panama and Paradise Papers Exposes the Elites

In a paper that Desmond Fernandes and I wrote in the late 1990s, entitled “Deep Politics, Liberalisation and Corruption: The Mangalore Power Company Controversy”, a paper that exhaustively discussed implications to India due to...

Read more November 12, 2017 at 4:15 pm Leo Saldanha

IMF and World Bank: Marching to a G20 Tune?

This year, the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors’ Meeting on October 12-13 overlapped with the IMF-World Bank annual meeting on October 13-15 in Washington, DC. As of December 1, 2017, Argentina becomes...

Read more November 5, 2017 at 5:51 am Nancy Alexander

Debunking World Bank’s argument on large-scale infrastructure investment

World Bank’s Chief Economist Ejaz Ghani recently advocated for the large-scale infrastructure investment mentioning that Golden Quadrilateral project has given a massive boost to manufacturing activity and productivity in districts located within 10km of...

Read more October 28, 2017 at 5:03 pm Leo Saldanha

Does World Bank’s Country Partnership Framework provide the real analysis of the challenges India faces?

The World Bank Group is in the process of formulating its first Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for India for which consultations are in process to come out with Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD), which will...

Read more September 30, 2017 at 6:20 pm Anuradha Munshi

Communities Affected by Tata Mundra Approach US Court to Review “Absolute Immunity” Doctrine

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...

Read more July 26, 2017 at 2:11 pm CFA

Case Study: What’s Simmering Under The Blue Green City

After bifurcation of the erstwhile Indian state of Andhra Pradesh in June 2014, both the new states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh are sharing the Hyderabad as capital for 10 years. Chief Minister of...

Read more June 15, 2017 at 11:41 am CFA

Booklet: Parliament Supremacy Undermined?

An Analysis of Parliamentary Debates in India on International Financial Institutions (1984-2009)

Read more December 19, 2016 at 6:14 pm Himanshu Damle
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