World Bank & International Finance: Legacy, Lessons & Current Struggles
This year, the World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings took place virtually from the 22nd to the 24th of April, 2022.
The Lankan Crisis: Lessons for India
While the mainstream media covers the turmoil in Sri Lanka as something that is unfolding on a day to day basis, what is lost out is the long term trajectories that have precipitated the...
Fishing Community That Took on World Bank Group Immunity Continues Quest for Justice
Landmark corporate accountability case resulted in critical reforms for the World Bank’s lending arm. Today, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition from a fishing community in India whose livelihoods have been destroyed by...
Supreme Court rejects World Bank coal case
The Supreme Court today turned down an appeal from a fishing community to review its lawsuit that seeks to hold an arm of the World Bank liable for environmental damage from a coal-fired power...
Handbook on India and the Free Trade Agreements
The handbook on India’s Free Trade and Investment Agreements is an attempt to keep pace with the dynamic nature of free trade and investment agreements.
Coveted IMF-WB Spring meetings conclude with a vow to fiddle; MC12 round the corner
We are posting these snippets at a time when the mega yearly rituals of the World Bank and IMF a.k.a the Annual General Meetings, have ended and the balance of payment crisis in Sri...
World Bank aided privatisation and commercialisation – sectoral learnings from India
Note to the readers: This is a mildly edited transcript of the talk given by the author at the World Without World Bank Campaign Week in 2021 at a panel titled “Privatisation, Commodification and...
Case Against IFC at US Supreme Court: Disappointed with the outcome; Quest for Justice Continues
Landmark corporate accountability case resulted in critical reforms for the World Bank’s lending arm. April 26, 2022 New Delhi: Last evening India time, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition from a fishing community...
Civil society urges for a world without the World Bank | Press Release
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) along with the Board of Governors of the World Bank (WB) Group is having its annual Spring meeting from April 18th- 24, 2022 in order to commemorate another year...
Unpacking the WTO and Free Trade Agreements
With the growing integration of economic activities around the world, international trade has become an interesting arena for observers of international political economy and development practices.
World Development Report 2022 released; Historic leak of Swiss banking, Credit Suisse in the eye of the storm
Snippets from the world of International Finance Amidst Russia’s revanchist war against Ukraine starting last week, there is lots of ink on the financial markets and the sequence will hit the global economy. The...
A Peopleless Budget: Budget 2022 Analysis
The government has over the years made its priorities clear as to whose interest it serves. It is evident from the fact that the government continues with its gross underspending on key social sectors...
AIIB Reviewing Energy Strategy; ADB, its Safeguard Policies
A year ago, we welcomed 2021 with a sense of optimism that the international community will rise to the challenge of ensuring equal vaccine access to all countries, but then the second wave of...
Reading the Rhetoric: G20, its Politics & What the 2023 Presidency Means for India
Founded in 1999, in the wake of the Asian Financial Crisis, G20’s formation was announced by the finance ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) as the forum for international cooperation on financial and...
Sowing Trouble: Contextualizing India’s Farm Laws against the backdrop of World Bank and IMF
This booklet is a result of webinars under the World Without World Bank campaign that brings together activists, academicians and other civil society groups to protest, respond to the World Bank’s neoliberal reforms.
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