A hundred days isn’t really enough to evaluate the policies of a regime pertaining to finance and economy, but it is enough so far as to get the drift. And an overview of the...
In response to the article published in Finance Matters last week, titled “MUDRA loan numbers – Biggest jumla by the Finance Minister” by Mr. Thomas Franco, Ministry of Finance & Corporate Affairs through their...
In a recent interview with the press in the industrial town of South India, Coimbatore, the Finance Minister clarified to Mr Sundarraman, a reporter from The Indian Express, that according to the bank’s data...
औसत वैश्विक तापमान वृद्धि के कारण लंबे समय तक बारिश न होने के और अचानक अत्यधिक बारिश की घटना के कारण बाढ़ में बढोतरी हुआ है। आपदा आने से ठीक पहले वायनाड केरल में...
A new ecosystem based on loan apps has mushroomed across India’s financial landscape over a decade, preying on those abandoned by the formal banking sector. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently imposed a...
Press Note 12 September 2024, Delhi: Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) launched an exclusive microsite dedicated to its ‘Plastics Fuel Infertility’ campaign (PFIC), on 28th August 2024 through an online event. The Campaign aims...
The Centre for Financial Accountability, a New Delhi-based organisation working to strengthen and improve financial accountability within India, invites applications for the Smitu Kothari Fellowship 2024. Started in 2018, the Fellowship encourages young writers...
With climate change, human interventions, unscientific development and greed, disasters are frequently happening in the country. As Dr P. Sainath writes in the title of his famous book, “Everybody Loves a Good Drought,” everyone...
“What really was new was the trick of claiming Neo liberalism stripped away rules when much of what it was doing was imposing new rules that favoured banks and the wealthy. For instance, the...
कृषि अर्थव्यवस्था के जानकार मानते हैं कि खेती को बरकरार रखने,विकसित करने और सबका पेट भरने की अधिकांश जिम्मेदारी छोटे और सीमांत किसान ही निभाते हैं। जहां 70% ग्रामीण परिवार अभी भी अपनी आय...
Since the pandemic, the gap between rich and poor Indians has never been more evident. But inequality was never a public concern – until now. For much of the first half of the year,...
CFA Explainers The Unified Pension Scheme (UPS) launched by the government as its compromise formula is being celebrated by the godi media as the “best of both worlds”, i.e. the Old Pension Scheme (OPS)...
India is ranked 45th in the Pension Grade System of 47 countries. The USA ranked 22nd is a capitalist country but 100% of its population is covered under a pension system. In most countries...
For a long time, India has been advocating for the end of unsustainable use-and-throw economy. However, in a case of mismatch between its words and action, about 79% of the budget allocated for the...
PRESS RELEASE | 23.08.24 August 23, 2024 – A collective letter written by the Centre for Financial Accountability, International Accountability Project, National Hawkers Federation, GAIA-Asia Pacific, and Break Free From Plastics and endorsed by...
