The third annual Coal vs Renewable Financial Analysis 2019 marks a second consecutive year on year decline in coal funding following a 90% decrease in 2018. The report finds a 126% drop in funding...
Multilateral Development Organizations like the World Bank Group over the past decades have defined mainly how the language and direction of development have shaped globally. In India, the experience has been no different. From...
Inaugurating the Smart City Mission (SCM) in June 2016 Prime Minister Modi said, тАЬIf anything has the potential to mitigate poverty it is our cities. It is now our responsibility to provide strength to...
Covid-19 brought a 21 day country wide lockdown from the midnight of March 24th 2020 and this caught the entire country completely unaware and unprepared. Chaos and panic buying kept a few occupied while...
For thirty seven years, the Indian Exim Bank has been providing financial assistance to Indian exporters and importers of goods and services. One of Exim BankтАЩs major functions is to support and protect exports....
An analysis of the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana in Gujarat It is nobody’s case that farming / agriculture, especially in India, beset as it is by the vagaries of nature, is largely rain-fed,...
An Analysis of Non-Performing Assets & Loans by the Public Sector Banks in the Pre-COVID Era For the Indian banks, reeling under the weight of mounting Non-Performing Assets (NPAs), COVID came as a blessing...
The Indian banking sector is under a prolonged and severe crisis. Bad loans continue to grow and banks remain under-capitalized with profits in the red. As a result, credit growth remains muted, reinforcing the...
In 2015, governments around the world committed to hold global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius (┬░C) and to strive to limit warming to 1.5┬░C by adopting the Paris Agreement. This analysis shows...
Civil society organizations from around the world have been campaigning and advocating for a more responsible, human rights-oriented, and sustainable development finance model.Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) lend money to governments and private actors in...
This case study of Smart City projects in Indore (Madhya Pradesh) includes an overview of the idea and the development work behind these projects. It begins with information about the city of Indore and...
Of IndiaтАЩs installed power generation capacity of 331,118 megawatts (MW), 58%, or around 193,426MW, is fuelled by coal. Gas-based and hydropower projects account for 25,150MW and 44,765MW, respectively. Coal, one of the key polluters...
