The last five years have been a watershed moment in Indian politics and economy. The NDA alliance’s grand victory on the agenda of development and good days to come (achhe din) stated off on...
In its historic decision on 27th Feb 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that international organizations like the World Bank Group “don’t enjoy absolute immunity”. Simply put, with this judgement, the World Bank and...
In the past four and a half years, the country has gone through a major socio-political and economic upheaval as never before. At no point in the recent history has the country as a...
नेशनल थर्मल पाॅवर काॅरपोरेशन (एनटीपीसी) भारत के चार ‘‘नवरत्नों‘‘ में से एक होने के साथ, एक “फार्च्यून 500” कंपनी भी है। भारत के विकास में एनटीपीसी ने चार दशकों से ऊपर एक अहम् भूमिका...
कैंब्रिज के अर्थशास्त्री, हा-जून चांग का मानना है कि ‘अर्थशास्त्र का 95 प्रतिशत सिर्फ सामान्य समझ है, जिसे गणित और भारी-भरकम शब्दावली का प्रयोग करके मुश्किल बनाया जाता है।’ इससे हम समझ सकते हैं...
This exclusive report documents the violations caused by the NTPC’s power plants on various fronts over the past decade — forceful land acquisition, environmental damage caused to communities, toxic pollution due to large-scale coal-fired...
Public-Private Partnerships — or PPPs — are increasingly being promoted as a way to finance development projects. This report gives an in-depth, evidence-based analysis of the impact of 10 PPP projects, including two from India,...
Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project India is part of an ambitious plan, which saw the building of several coal-based thermal power stations to meet India’s energy needs. Located on the western coast of...
This year, the Inspection Panel, the accountability mechanism of the World Bank, is completing 25 years. The World Bank’s failure to comply with its operating policies was seen by the entire world in the...
A new report has criticised the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy for failing to fix responsibility on who should have been held accountable for the current NPA crisis in the power sector. The report,...
25 years of Inspection Panel has a special significance for India, having played a key role in its formation. As in the case of all safeguard and other policies, the independent accountability mechanisms (IAMs)...
The Asian region has experienced the emergence of new MDBs over last few years. For many years, the Asian Development Bank was the only development bank in the region and has been dominated by...
A year back when we started our weekly newsletter Finance Matters, what we intended was to bring together the news and analysis from the world of finance, in a form and language comprehensible to...
Ha-Joon Chang, the Cambridge economist, holds that ‘95% of economics is common sense, made to look difficult, with the use of jargons and mathematics’. That may explain why common people engage less with matters...
AIIB’s proposed deal with India’s $2.1 billion National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) would also threaten to revive a host of stalled projects in the country potentially including coal, power, petroleum, railways and roads...