Average 30 Farmer Suicides Per Day in Modi Govt Years Points to a Systemic Apathy
The attempt by neoliberal governance has been to steadily depoliticise farmers' suicides and strip them of any deeper messaging.
Financial Institutions look to step up infrastructure project financing
In this month’s infrastructure update, the national and international financial institutions such as the ADB, JICA, AIIB and BoB are looking to increase project and policy financing for infrastructure projects.
Election victory is a combination of many efforts – Loans are a major factor!
The five state election results are being analysed from various angles. Communal polarisation, EVM manipulation, welfare schemes are the ones being talked about much more.
It is Our Money: Voices for public accountability in the India Social Forum
The India Social Forum was held in Patna from 2nd December to 4th December, was a confluence of social movements and civil society organizations from across India.
Lenders choose renewables over coal for second year in a row
As negotiations and discussions build up around the Fossil Fuels phase-out at the COP28 in Dubai, back home, for the second year in a row, no coal power plant has received project finance lending...
Coal vs Renewables Investment Report 2023
This analysis assessed 68 project finance loans across 11 coal and renewable energy projects in India that reached financial closure between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2022. Renewable energy projects are defined as...
Research Fellows
The Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA), has been engaged in critically analyzing the plastics lifespan from petrochemical manufacturing, production and consumption of plastics to its disposal using chemical recycling including incineration. In this context,...
Claims of employment rate increase a sham: Economists
At a time when the report of the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) report claims an upward trend in employment in India’s labour market with 15 million people entering the workforce, professional economists,...
Economists slam govt claims of rapid economic growth as a sham
The claims of robust growth, according to experts, are rather a celebratory note in the self-appraisal of the government in terms of India’s economic recovery. Claims of rapid growth the Indian economy is projected...
‘New jobs distress-driven’: Economists criticise CMIE claim of upward trend in employment
At a time when the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy’s (CMIE’s) report claims an upward trend in employment in India’s labour market with 15 million people entering the workforce, senior economists have sought to...
Global Plastics Treaty Negotiations – How corporate lobbyists overwhelmed the negotiations
The Global Plastics Treaty, which aims to address plastic pollution across its full lifecycle has the potential to do so through production reduction, removal of non-essential plastics and corporate accountability. However, the negotiations which...
Economists Term CMIE Employment Rate Increase Claim ‘Sham’
Real earnings have increased only for casual work, economists said at a conference titled ‘Measuring Recovery’. Several economists have termed the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy’s (CMIE) claim that the labour market witnessed an...
Financial Institutions Should Have Accountability Mechanisms To Avoid Investing in Projects Causing Environmental, Climate and Social Harm
“For years the people of Teesta valley had been campaigning against the dam, we repeatedly warned them about the possible disaster, but we were targeted and ignored. And now the dam has been washed...
Claims of Employment Rate Increase a Sham: Economists
New Delhi: At a time when the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy’s report claims an upward trend in employment in India’s labour market with 15 million people entering the workforce, economists exposed that claim...
‘Climate Finance: Symptoms of a Broken Multilateralism’ says New Report
New Delhi: “The flow of 100 billion dollars for climate finance from developed to developing countries for mitigation and adaptation of climate impacts are neither enough to meet the needs of addressing the climate...
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