Indian Civil Society Groups Demand Shutdown of World Bank and IMF on Their 80th Anniversary

Press Release 23.10.2024 | New Delhi: Close to 200 individuals and civil society groups, representing a wide range of social movements, campaigns, and grassroots organisations and campaigns in a statement have called for the creation...

Read more October 23, 2024 at 9:46 am CFA

चुटका निर्माण के सवालों पर व्यापक विमर्श हो

चुटका परमाणु विरोधी संघर्ष समिति के दादू लाल कुङापे और मीरा बाई मरावी तथा बरगी बांध विस्थापित एवं प्रभावित संघ के राज कुमार सिन्हा ने संयुक्त बयान जारी करते हुए कहा है कि चुटका...

Banking on Renewables: Powering People, Protecting the planet | Report

There are already predictions that 2024 will be the hottest year on record,1 and that the Paris goal of keeping global average temperatures below 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming is at critical risk of...

Read more October 16, 2024 at 3:40 pm Recourse

Putting just transition at the heart of solar power: A case study on India

India has set ambitious targets for renewable energy (RE). The Government of India set an ambitious target in 2015 of installing 175GW of renewable energy capacity by 2022. Since then, as part of the...

Read more October 16, 2024 at 3:20 pm Anitha Sampath

Statement to the multilateral development banks: Criteria for public investments in 100% renewable energy for climate, for people, for the planet.

In response to the urgent need for global climate action, the COP28 climate negotiations set a target to triple global renewable energy capacity by 2030, demanding a significant transfer of public finance towards the...

Read more October 16, 2024 at 3:06 pm CFA

Announcing Smitu Kothari Fellows – 2024

Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) is happy to announce recipients of the 7th Smitu Kothari Fellowship for young writers. The 6 recipients for 2024 come from diverse backgrounds and experiences, and hail from different...

Read more October 15, 2024 at 4:24 pm CFA

World Bank @ 80: Radical Restructuring, Not Reforms

The 80th anniversary of the World Bank is a good time to bury the arguments in favor of reforming the institution and strengthen the demand for radical restructuring. The past eight decades did not...

Read more October 15, 2024 at 11:48 am Joe Athialy

मध्यप्रदेश में अमृत सरोवर का यथार्थ

आजादी का अमृत महोत्सव काल में अमृत सरोवर (तालाब) योजना शुरू किया गया था। जिसमें देश के 28 राज्य और 5 केंद्र शासित प्रदेश शामिल थे। सभी जिलों में 75 अमृत सरोवर को विकसित...

Read more October 14, 2024 at 9:00 am Raj Kumar Sinha

FCRA – Fighting Crackdown on Rights & Activists

It’s been three months since our Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) license renewal was denied. Then, we said there must be life beyond FCRA. Looking back at what we managed to do during these...

Read more October 10, 2024 at 4:56 pm CFA

Interrogating the World Bank @ 80 | Essay Competition

The Centre for Financial Accountability, a New Delhi-based organisation working to strengthen and improve financial accountability within India, invites students and researchers to participate in an essay competition on the topic of Interrogating the...

Read more October 10, 2024 at 4:29 pm CFA

100 Days of Economy & Finance: More of the same. But also forced reversals on some fronts

A hundred days isn’t really enough to evaluate the policies of a regime pertaining to finance and economy, but it is enough so far as to get the drift. And an overview of the...

Read more October 9, 2024 at 10:00 pm CFA

Ministry of Finance Responds to MUDRA Loan Article

In response to the article published in Finance Matters last week, titled “MUDRA loan numbers – Biggest jumla by the Finance Minister” by Mr. Thomas Franco, Ministry of Finance & Corporate Affairs through their...

Read more October 9, 2024 at 5:40 pm Thomas Franco

MUDRA loan numbers – Biggest jumla by the Finance Minister

In a recent interview with the press in the industrial town of South India, Coimbatore, the Finance Minister clarified to Mr Sundarraman, a reporter from The Indian Express, that according to the bank’s data...

Read more October 3, 2024 at 6:54 pm Thomas Franco

वर्षा की तीव्रता,आवृत्ति और बांध के कारण बाढ़ आपदा

औसत वैश्विक तापमान वृद्धि के कारण लंबे समय तक बारिश न होने के और अचानक अत्यधिक बारिश की घटना के कारण बाढ़ में बढोतरी हुआ है। आपदा आने से ठीक पहले वायनाड केरल में...

Read more September 30, 2024 at 4:12 pm Raj Kumar Sinha

To undo the deadly noose of loan apps, RBI’s occasional warnings won’t do

A new ecosystem based on loan apps has mushroomed across India’s financial landscape over a decade, preying on those abandoned by the formal banking sector. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently imposed a...

Read more September 30, 2024 at 3:50 pm Anirban Bhattacharya

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