“AIIB has created a superstructure, an ecosystem which acts as a complex web of shining terminologies and projects to attract investments, which actually is a smoke screen to hide the fact that there’s no...
Senior activist Ulka Mahajan of Sarvahara Jan Andolan said, “The infrastructure that is being developed is not what people demand, but it is what global capital demands. The international financial institutions are promoting corporate...
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...
MUMBAI, India — The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank on Monday announced support for India’s National Investment and Infrastructure Fund. The $100 million equity investment is the first phase of funding for NIIF, a collaborative platform...
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, which meets in Mumbai this week, needs to prove that its clients have robust social, environmental and disclosure policies and practices. Along the route from Mumbai’s international airport in...
In the political resolution adopted at the end of the People Convention on Infrastructure Financing delegates resolved to challenge the undemocratic and economically unsound functioning of IFIs including AIIB, World Bank, IFC and others....
“AIIB’s proposed $ 200 million deal with India’s $2.1 billion National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) would threaten to revive a host of stalled projects in the country potentially including coal, power, petroleum, railways...
Mumbai, June 23: “The so-called ‘development’ must not come at the cost of constitutional rights,” said prominent activist and Goldman Environment Awardee Prafulla Samantra at the press conference, which was organised on the last...
The workshop aims to explore the environmental, economic, legal, political, cultural and social implications of Amaravati Capital City project in Andhra Pradesh. This pipeline project of AIIB and World Bank is an environmental category...
Protest mounts against bank’s $200-million offer for proposed $2.1-billion NIIF With the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) board getting ready to hold its third annual general meeting in the city on June 25 and...
It is important to analyse and reflect upon these financial institutions and how their projects have fueled inequality throughout the world. The workshop would have speakers who would speak on various financial institutions and...
This workshop enabled discussions on IFI model of reforms in water supply services, including privatisation/ PPPs and commercialisation. The discussion also included the concepts of right to water and its implementation at the community...
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...
For Immediate Release AIIB Urged to Reject New $200m Investment in India Risky venture threatens to open up a host of controversial infrastructure projects  The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) Board will be asked...
The three-day people’s convention on infrastructure financing will be held on June 21, 22 and 23, before the AIIB meets in Mumbai on June 25 and 26. Ahead of the third annual meeting of...