Covid-19 brought a 21 day country wide lockdown from the midnight of March 24th 2020 and this caught the entire country completely unaware and unprepared. Chaos and panic buying kept a few occupied while...
For thirty seven years, the Indian Exim Bank has been providing financial assistance to Indian exporters and importers of goods and services. One of Exim Bank’s major functions is to support and protect exports....
An analysis of the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana in Gujarat It is nobody’s case that farming / agriculture, especially in India, beset as it is by the vagaries of nature, is largely rain-fed,...
An Analysis of Non-Performing Assets & Loans by the Public Sector Banks in the Pre-COVID Era For the Indian banks, reeling under the weight of mounting Non-Performing Assets (NPAs), COVID came as a blessing...
The Indian banking sector is under a prolonged and severe crisis. Bad loans continue to grow and banks remain under-capitalized with profits in the red. As a result, credit growth remains muted, reinforcing the...
भारतीय बैंकिंग क्षेत्र एक लंबे और गंभीर संकट के दौर से गुजर रहा है। बुरे ऋण बढ़ रहे हैं और बैंक घटते मुनाफे के साथ कम-पूंजीकृत हो रहे हैं। नतीजतन, साख वृद्धि थम सी...
In 2015, governments around the world committed to hold global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius (°C) and to strive to limit warming to 1.5°C by adopting the Paris Agreement. This analysis shows...
Civil society organizations from around the world have been campaigning and advocating for a more responsible, human rights-oriented, and sustainable development finance model.Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) lend money to governments and private actors in...
This case study of Smart City projects in Indore (Madhya Pradesh) includes an overview of the idea and the development work behind these projects. It begins with information about the city of Indore and...
Of India’s installed power generation capacity of 331,118 megawatts (MW), 58%, or around 193,426MW, is fuelled by coal. Gas-based and hydropower projects account for 25,150MW and 44,765MW, respectively. Coal, one of the key polluters...
The article takes a look at the several ongoing projects as part of the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC). It provides an overview of the projects implemented under it, assessment of the current status...
This mapping document looks at infrastructure sector in India, its basic concepts, estimates by the Government of India, the World Bank (WB), Asian Development Bank (ADB), International Finance Corporation (IFC), Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank...
New analysis by Center for Financial Accountability shows that the Andhra Pradesh government appears to be singling out renewable energy projects in the guise of lowering electricity purchase costs, while ignoring higher cost coal...
This analysis examined 52 project finance deals comprising a loan component, across 54 coal-fired power and renewable energy projects (defined as hydroelectric, geothermal, wave, wind and solar power projects), with a financial close date...
This booklet is a first in a series that looks to provide an overview of the smart cities at a conceptual level, smart cities mission in India, development of smart cities globally, the role...