China was able to reap the benefits of its demographic divided on the back of rapid industrialisation, with manufacturing and exports leading the way. Its population was also more skilled and educated. Without ample...
Almost every day, new information is surfacing. Favours given in allocation of ports to Adani, airports bestowed on him, coal auctions going to him, oil import contracts coming his way, and the list goes...
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank, is to stop supporting new coal projects, a move described by campaigners as welcome but long overdue.
The IFC has reportedly lent close to $5 billion to almost 88 financial institutions in India
An extension of the coal reduction policy to all lending will act as a strong impetus for Indian financial institutions to strengthen their own policies on coal reduction.
The case of Puducherry shows us how Union Territories, as pockets of arbitrary power, enable an authoritarian role for the Union government while trampling upon the core of federalism and democracy. In recent years,...
दो दशक तक नई पेंशन योजना को आज़माने के बाद कई राज्य फिर से पुरानी की ओर जा रहे हैं। लाखों कर्मचारी सेवानिवृत्ति के बाद बेहतर जीवन की मांग कर रहे हैं, वहीं केंद्र...
Previous policy allowed the IFC’s financial clients to support new coal projects as long as they exited coal by 2030, but the new update explicitly rules out new coal.
After two decades of the New Pension Scheme, many states are going back to the Old one. Union Government warns of the financial crisis. Political parties accuse each other of political gimmicks. The employees...
Hindenburg, which became a household name with the expose on Adani, is out with a new report. This time it is the mobile payment company based in the US, Block Inc. It has alleged...
The infrastructure finance update for the month of March 2023 covers mostly updates from the sectors of roads and highways, smart cities, ports and logistics. The government is making significant investments and working to...
“Operation successful but the patient died” is perhaps the best phrase to describe the handling of the Brahmapuram fire which ravaged the city of Kochi. Spread over 110 acres of land, the Brahmapuram dumpyard...
Why are banks allowed to be grown into such big entities that they become ‘too big to fail?’ And their failures become a burden on public money! Is the government hand in glove with...
The ever widening inequality in our country can be reversed only by taxing the rich. Even during the two years of the Covid-19 pandemic the income that Mukesh Ambani earned is equivalent to what a NREGA Worker will...
Infrastructure Finance Update for the month of February 2023 covers the updates from the railways, ports and roads and highways sector. For the upcoming fiscal year, the Center has substantially boosted its budgetary capital...
