The Budget Series
Budget 2025: What’s at Stake?, a series co-produced by The Wire and Centre for Financial Accountability Episode 1The Economic Rights Every Indian Should Have | Prabhat Patnaik (Senior Economist) Episode 2Budget 2025 Needs to...
कोई “चारा” नहीं है!
आर्थिक स्वतंत्रता के लिए भूमि तलाशतीं महिला पशुपालक सुमन आजमगढ़ जनपद, उत्तर प्रदेश के सोहवल गांव की निवासी हैं। उनके पति प्रवासी मजदूर हैं और सुमन गांव में अपने दो बच्चों के साथ रहती...
Another Budget, Another Opportunity | Finance Matters, 10 January 2025 | Editorial
We are just around the corner for another budget. The Finance Minister has been consulting regular industry leaders, business associations, and occasional trade unions in preparation for the budget. While memes around the falling...
Indian Banks and Environmental Accountability: A New Year of Complicity and Deception?
Indian banks walked nonchalantly into the new year, their indifference as thick as the smoke from industrial projects they finance. Pollution levels soared, environmental concerns, and sometimes protests, were witnessed over big infra projects...
सामुदायिक निस्तार संसाधनों की अनदेखी
प्राकृतिक संसाधनों और कॉमन्स, जैसे सामुदायिक भूमि, वन, चारागाह और जल निकाय स्थानीय समुदायों के लिए महत्वपूर्ण हैं जो इन संसाधनों पर निर्भर हैं और उनके सतत उपयोग एवं संरक्षण के लिए पीढ़ियों से...
The Dangers of Neo-Banking, Fintechs, and the Inactiveness of the RBI
I remitted some money using GPay recently. There were many people with the same name, and erroneously the money went to the wrong account of one Arjunan. When the actual Arjunan to whom the...
Renewable energy lending up by 60% last year
Companies engaged in coal power expansion received US$ 2 billion in underwriting services from US based financial institute New Delhi, December 19, 2024: The Centre for Financial Accountability released its seventh annual Coal vs Renewables...
World Bank’s approval of Amaravati project is disregard of Indian judiciary and disrespectful of people & their concerns.
Press Release New Delhi | December 23, 2024 The Working Group on International Financial Institutions (WgonIFIs) is disappointed with the recent decision of the World Bank Board of Directors to approve $800 million for...
An open letter to the World Bank: Address grave concerns over the Amaravati sustainable infrastructure and institutional development project
December 17, 2024 To, Executive Director The World Bank Washington, D.C. Dear Ms. / Mr. We, civil society organizations from 17 countries, write to express our grave concerns regarding the Amaravati Sustainable Infrastructure and Institutional Development Project (Project ID: P507508), which is scheduled for Board approval on December 19,...
Coal vs RE InvestmentReport 2024
The recently concluded COP29 left many people disappointed due to a lack of progress on critical issues. The Western world offered insufficient climate finance, while major polluters sought to undermine the fossil fuel phaseout...
Few Questions to the Finance Minister
Few of the Trade Union representatives from the Banking Industry met the Leader of the Opposition with certain demands on the Banking Sector. This came out on Social Media, and the Finance Minister, in...
No more loan relief in case of disasters I Flip Book
A critical look at the recent Disaster Managenent Amendment Bill, 2024. Why has the government removed clauses that allowed for loan reliefs and concession loans to disaster affected people? Urgent need to raise pertinent...
The Magic of Falling NPAs! | Finance Matters | 13 December 2024 | Editorial
A recent investigation by The Indian Express revealed that over 43% of the total non-performing assets (NPA) till March 2019, or Rs. 4.02 lakh crore, was accounted for by just 100 companies. According to...
Economic And Financial Implications Of The Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024: A Muslim Perspective
Though not explicitly stated in the Qur’an, waqf has been extensively used in Islamic history to assist with community development and support. The word “Waqf” comes from the Arabic word “Waqafa,” which implies to...
Global Plastics Treaty INC 5: People, planet held hostage by private profits
What transpired during INC 5 is the outcome of a process, which lacked leadership and courage needed to represent the mandate laid out in resolution 5/14 and address conflicts that emerged through the two...
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