Announcing Smitu Kothari Fellows – 2022 (Three Month Fellowship)

Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) is happy to announce recipients of the 5th Smitu Kothari Fellowship for young writers.

Read more August 16, 2022 at 6:33 pm CFA

NHAI felled more than 1 lakh trees worth Rs 13.76 crore for constructing Srinagar ring road

Infrastructure Finance Update, July 2022 The Infrastructure Finance Update for the month of July cover the updates from the sectors of Roads and Highways, Ports and the status of Smart Cities in the State...

Read more August 16, 2022 at 2:14 pm Shivani Dwivedi

Undoing Conservation: India’s Tiger Reserves Giving Way for Infra Projects

A Compendium of 10 Case Studies on Tiger Reserves India’s burgeoning economic growth in the last two decades, especially in the infrastructure sector, has heavily impacted its forests and protected areas. Not only has...

Read more August 16, 2022 at 10:09 am Nishank

भुखमरी की चपेट में दुनिया | हमारा पैसा हमारा हिसाब

पूरी दुनिया खाद्य संकट से जूझ रही है। अगले साल खाद्य उत्पादन में और भी कमी आने की आशंका है। यानि की खाद्य सामग्रियों की कीमतें बढ़ जाएंगी। मुक्त व्यापार पर आधारित अंतर्राष्ट्रीय संधियों...

Read more August 10, 2022 at 11:17 am CFA

Developing Rural Economy through Unionisation- A Classic Model

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 was started in 2005 by the United Progressive Alliance- a coalition Govt led by the Congress Party in which the Left played an important role.

Read more August 9, 2022 at 11:37 am Thomas Franco

Use of a rupee route to get around dollar dominance

India could take advantage of geopolitical developments to promote trade and gain better status for the rupee, by avoiding dollar A number of countries, including India, are now considering the use of other currencies...

Read more August 8, 2022 at 11:00 am Sunanda Sen

Notwithstanding FM’s bravado, global recession is a big threat to India

In fact, Centre’s whimsical policy response to the emerging global economic scenario is an equally big threat to the economy It would be imprudent to assume that a global recessionary trend will bypass India....

Read more August 4, 2022 at 5:57 pm Prasanna Mohanty

The world is struck by a perfect storm | Hunger grips the world

Pandemic, climate change and now war! The world is struck by a perfect storm, and hunger is spiralling. While the crisis dates back to the international treaties which opened the national borders for free...

Read more August 4, 2022 at 10:24 am CFA

How to destroy the Indian Economy? Poonam Gupta and Arvind Panagaraiya prescribe

A report presented by Poonam Gupta and Arvind Panagaraiya at the India Policy Forum 2022 on 12th July, is clearly a prescription for destroying the Indian Economy which is already on the verge of...

Read more August 2, 2022 at 12:31 pm Thomas Franco

ESG dilution: Way forward lies in inequality sensitive RE Finance

The first half of this year has been challenging for RE expansion both at the global level and in India. Supply disruptions in coal and Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) owing to the Russia-Ukraine war...

Read more August 1, 2022 at 4:54 pm Amitanshu Verma

Ensuring Green projects are truly Green

A Sustainable Transition The World is looking at a transition from energy production using fossil fuels to renewable energy sources i.e, Wind, water and solar (WWS) in order to achieve the carbon net zero...

Read more August 1, 2022 at 3:36 pm Anirudh Menon

GST बनाम गब्बर सिंह टैक्स | हमारा पैसा हमारा हिसाब

जीएसटी की शुरुआत टैक्स प्रणाली को सरल बनाने और डबल टैक्स से बचने के लिए की गयी थी। लेकिन अब हर रोजमर्रा की जिंदगी में इस्तेमाल होने वाली चीज पर टैक्स देना पड़ रहा...

India’s Plastic Ban: A triumph for the fossil fuel industry?

Effective July 1, 2022, the Union government has banned identified single use plastics (SUPs) as mandated by the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2021. The stated aim of this ban is to arrest plastic pollution...

Read more July 26, 2022 at 2:37 pm Swathi Seshadri

How India’s Private Infrastructure Projects Risk Economic Stability, Environment, and Public Welfare

To become a $5 trillion economy by 2025, India is heavily relying on private infrastructure investment across sectors. The government has been rolling out several policies, regulations and tenders to encourage private investments. In...

Read more July 26, 2022 at 12:19 pm Gaurav Dwivedi

Is SBI getting Privatised?

Arvind Panagariya and Poonam Gupta have come up with a demand that all public sector banks except the State Bank of India should be privatised.

Read more July 25, 2022 at 12:58 pm Thomas Franco

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