देश भर के किसानों ने राष्ट्रपति को पत्र भेजा
विगत 29 और 30 जुलाई को भूमि अधिकार आंदोलन के राष्ट्रीय बैठक में निर्णय लिया गया था कि 13 अगस्त 2025 को भूमि कब्जा और कॉर्पोरेट लूट के खिलाफ राष्ट्रीय एकता दिवस के रूप...
Guarding the Vote: Why the ECI Must Embrace Transparency I Finance Matters, 08 August 2025 I Editorial
When the credibility of an election is questioned, the first responsibility of the Election Commission of India (ECI) should be to open its books, show its data, and prove its processes beyond doubt. Instead,...
Micro Loans Are Driving an Already Forsaken Population Further Into Distress
The people for whom such micro-credits become a lifeline are those who are not considered credit worthy by the formal banking system. ‘These are the people for whom such micro-credits become a lifeline as...
Tariffs, Trade Injustice & Bilateral FTAs | Ranja Sengupta | Podcast
In this episode, Ranja Sengupta (Third World Network) unpacks how trade rules from GATT to the WTO to today’s bilateral agreements have been designed to favour the powerful. She exposes how negotiations are rigged,...
8th Smitu Kothari Fellowship 2025 Announcement
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 2025. Started in 2018, the Fellowship encourages young writers...
Stop the Toxic Takeover: AIFC Slams Illegal Waste Dumping in Sathangadu Wetland”
Alliance for Incinerator Free Chennai (AIFC) strongly condemns the Greater Chennai Corporation’s illegal dumping of waste in the Sathangadu wetland (Proposed WTE incinerator site) Press Statement | August 08, 2025 Alliance for Incinerator Free...
By pushing people to money lenders the Union Govt and RBI are implementing Manusmriti
History shows that in primitive society there was no money lending and people shared their natural resources. In India, the concept of lending has been recorded during the Mauryan age, i.e., 321–185 BCE. Kautilya’s...
700 Voices, One Demand: Stop Plastic Pollution at the Source
Protect Our Health First – Stop Plastic Pollution at Its Source: Over 700 concerned citizens, communities, and Civil Society Organisations call on the Government of India for Urgent Action on Plastic Pollution in the...
Fossil Fuel and Petrochemical Lobbyists Overrun Plastics Treaty Negotiations
Industry Presence Threatens Plastics Treaty Integrity at INC-5.2 GENEVA, Switzerland, August 7, 2025 — At least 234 fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists — a new high compared to the 221 identified by CIEL...
Eight Years of Finance Matters: Still Counting!
We have always been wondering whether our work reaches beyond our bubble? We got an answer to that a year ago when the government gave us the ultimate ‘shut up’ award: FCRA cancellation! Because,...
India’s Unequal Tax Structure: The Rich Pay Less, The Rest Get Less
In effect, India’s tax system mimics advanced economies in numbers but lacks the redistributive structure of the progressive nations.The World Economic Forum (WEF) has described severe income inequality as the biggest risk facing the...
Eight Years of Finance Matters – A Matter of Pride – Salute to CFA Team – Present and Past
The first issue of Finance Matters was released on 1st July 2017 and had articles titled: Appointment of a new Indian ED at the World Bank raises a few questions The Draconian FRDI Bill,...
The Tariff Wars: India and the Global South in a Fragmenting System of World Trade | Podcast
𝐘𝐨𝐮, 𝐌𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲 | In conversation with Andrés Arauz In this episode, Andrés Arauz unpacks how US trade policy—across Trump, Biden, and beyond—isn’t madness, but a calculated revival of imperialism. From neo-Monroeism...
17th BRICS Summit: Bold words, blunt impact
While this Declaration is timely and music to many, and at first glance looks impressive and ambitious, a closer reading reveals its limited substance. Instead of providing new solutions, many of the clauses reiterate...
Regulating Coal Operations: Environmental and Social Impacts Through the Lens of the National Green Tribunal
India has announced plans to reach Net Zero emissions by 2070
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