India Inc. is now officially facing an economic slowdown. But economic slowdowns aren’t made overnight. This has been in the offing for almost a year now. On 23 June 2019, the Reserve Bank of...
A new civil society note has questioned the operations of the Beijing-based Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), a multilateral development bank that aims to support the building of infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region, seeking...
As the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) annual meeting kicks off on Friday, a coalition of NGOs will hold a protest to call on the multilateral financial institution to live up to its “lean,...
Activists from across the world are planning demonstrations against the bank over its fossil fuel investments The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is holding its first ever annual meeting outside of Asia on 12-13...
Professor CP Chandrasekhar Besides slowing growth and record unemployment, a major problem facing Indian policy makers is the fragility characterising the financial sector. With public sector banks still burdened with large non-performing assets (NPAs)...
NAGPUR: Though not as green as the BJP’s pre-election manifesto, the Union budget presented on Friday promised ‘Green Mother Earth and blue skies’. The high point was the boost given to electric vehicles for...
Centre for Financial Accountability raised concerns over the future risk for government exchequer by pointing out the nexus of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), National Infrastructure Investment Fund (NIIF), Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and...
क्या ठेठ चुनावी गहमा-गहमी के दौरान कोई निजी कपनी अपनी बिजली की कीमतों में इजाफा कर सकती है? और ऐसा करते हुए उसे कोई देख, टोक तक नहीं पाता? गौर से देखें तो बिजली...
This book, published by the Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA), New Delhi, critically analyses some of the major economic policies of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government since May 2014. The book chronicles “tectonic...
A new report, prepared by the advocacy group Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA), New Delhi, has taken strong exception to the World Bank refusing to share its independent assessment of the Land Pooling Scheme...
WILD ANIMALS ONCE RAN AMONG the acacia trees outside Navinal, one of many small villages hugging the Gulf of Kutch–an inlet on India’s northwest coast. Gajendra Singh Jadeja remembers them well: Cattle foraged for...
विश्वयुद्ध के बाद ब्रिटेन के ब्रेटेनवुड में खादी की गई वैश्विक वित्तीय संस्थाओं की ताक़त एक ज़माने में बेतेरह बढ़ी थी। वे अपनी मनमर्ज़ी के विकास की अवधारणा को दुनियाभर पर थोप सकती थीं।...
The case, which now goes back to a US district court, relates to alleged pollution caused by a Gujarat-based power plant partly funded by IFC. On February 27, the US Supreme Court ruled in...
The generation of solar energy also forms part of the BJP’s plans to ‘double farmers’ income by 2022’ in view of enabling food providers to also take on the role of becoming energy providers....
In late February, the US Supreme Court ruled against the claim by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank’s private sector arm, to absolute immunity from suit in the US. The case was...