Don’t Fleece the Poor

Banks act as financial intermediaries between depositors and borrowers. It is the public money, deposited in the form of term deposit (fixed deposits) and time deposit (saving and current accounts) which banks use for...

Read more May 10, 2019 at 10:16 am Hardnews

Small Finance Banks Are Squeezing the Common Man: CP Krishnan

“Modi government has granted licenses to 20 small finance banks. The successive central governments have undermined the significance of the public sector banks. Granting license to small finance banks is to...

Read more April 30, 2019 at 4:52 pm Newsclick.in

The Crisis In The Banking Sector Is A Created One: Priya Dharshini

The crisis in the banking sector is a created one, where the commercial banks have been forced to lend on a large scale to the development projects and to the corporates and which has...

Read more April 28, 2019 at 10:56 am Priya Dharshini

Coal-Ravaged Indian Fishers Take to the Supreme Court

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...

Read more April 26, 2019 at 6:12 pm Sierra Magazine

Snippets from the World of International Financial Institutions – April, 2019

The New World Bank President The annual Spring Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was held in Washington DC this year with...

Read more April 26, 2019 at 1:24 pm Maju Varghese

Over 50 Organisations From The World Ask Japan To Stop Funding Coal

In full-page advertisements in the Financial Times and Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest daily newspaper, 50 reputed organisations, working on environment and accountability related issues, from across the world have appealed to Shinzo Abe to...

Read more April 25, 2019 at 2:02 pm Ankit Agrawal

किताब: भारत में आर्थिक तबाही

पिछले साढ़े चार वर्षों में, देश एक बड़ी सामाजिक-राजनीतिक और आर्थिक उथल-पुथल से गुजरा है जैसा पहले कभी नहीं था। हाल के इतिहास में कभी भी एक साथ देश के इतने बड़े समूह को...

Read more April 25, 2019 at 11:12 am Thomas Franco

विश्वबैंक जैसे अंतरराष्ट्रीय संगठनों से टकराते जनांदोलन

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।...

Read more April 20, 2019 at 5:28 pm Subah Savere

The Economics Of Julian Assange’s Arrest

Yesterday Julian Assange, co-founder of Wikileaks, was arrested from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he took refuge seven years back, after the Ecuadorian government’s withdrawal of asylum. Interestingly, exactly a month back, on...

Read more April 13, 2019 at 8:56 pm Joe Athialy

Bridge The Borders: Connect Asia And Beyond! A Brief Review of AIIB’s Report

India’s ballooning NPA and banking crisis is a testimony to the reality whereby infrastructure projects have not only failed to bring in private capital, but have instead managed to siphon off small savers’ money...

Read more April 12, 2019 at 2:51 pm Gaurav Dwivedi

The World Bank’s Legacy of Environmental Destruction: A Case Study

The World Bank’s support for giant coal fired power plants in India and South Africa illustrate the organisation’s many institutional failings. This article is part of a series by openDemocracy and the Bretton Woods...

Read more April 12, 2019 at 11:07 am Open Democracy

आम चुनाव में सभी उम्मीदवारों से मप्र के जन आंदोलनों की मांगे और संकल्प

आम चुनाव में सभी उम्मीदवारों से मप्र के जन आंदोलनों की मांगे और संकल्प मध्यप्रदेश जन संघर्ष समन्वय समिती 4-5, आप्रैल 2019, युथ होस्टल, जबलपुर आगामी आम चुनाव के संदर्भ में, 4-5 अप्रैल 2019...

Demands from the Peoples Movements of MP to the Lok Sabha Candidates

Demands from the Peoples Movements of MP to the Lok Sabha Candidates Madhya Pradesh Jan-Sangharsh Samanvay Samiti April 4-5, 2019, Youth Hostel, Jabalpur In the context of the upcoming general election, a two days consultation...

Tata Mundra: The Story Of A Valiant Struggle

On February 27, 2019, the US Supreme Court in a 7-1 decision ruled that international organisations like the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a private-lending arm of the World Bank Group, do not enjoy absolute...

Read more April 11, 2019 at 12:54 pm CFA

Booklet: 5 Years of Achhe Din: A Quick Look at Banking and Finance Sector

The last five years have been a watershed moment in Indian politics and the economy. The NDA alliance’s grand victory on the agenda of development and good days to come (achhe din) started off...

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