The World Bank Board ended its long-standing nuclear ban in June 2025, paving the way for financing nuclear power plants worldwide. Although the World Bank was never a major funder of nuclear energy, this...
In the early years after Independence, Indiaās rural economy faced a deep and persistent credit crisis. Agriculture employed the majority of the population, yet formal banking institutions had little presence in villages. Rural households...
This edition of the State of Finance in India report has Indiaās digital economy and its impact as its special theme. The term āinfrastructureā conjures up images of large projects made of steel and...
Bankers have successfully achieved their dream of five-day work along with wage revision with the help of their unions, but there is more than meets the eye. Letās get into the details and understand...
The India Social Forum was held in Patna from 2nd December to 4th December, was a confluence of social movements and civil society organizations from across India.
Nearly a month after Maruti Suzuki chairman RC Bhargava raised a stink by saying that peopleās ability to buy small cars has eroded and would continue to decline next year and national dailies reported...
The quarter 2 results of the public sector banks are noteworthy compared to a few years ago. All these banks showed good profits in the financial year 2021-22. Twelve PSBs made a net profit...
Ā āIn my entire career as a public servant I haven't witnessed the extraction of public wealth for private profit on the scale that we see todayā, said Jawhar Sircar, Rajya Sabha member, Trinamool Congress,...
It has been more than 9 months since inflation broke the 6% ceiling. As per the law, RBI is going to write to the government explaining their failure to contain it, but both parties...
After getting independence in the year 1947, India adopted the process of planning for the economic development of the country. As soon as it became a republic, in 1950, the first five-year plan was...
State Bank of India is a Public Sector Bank in which the Union Government holds a 54% share. It has to be independent, and it has acted independently in the past.Ā For example, Mr...
When the Nobel Prize in Economics is awarded to economists for their work on āwhy banks should not be allowed to fail,ā the Union Government announced an Expression of Interest in selling IDBI Bank.
The derailment began in 1991, with the World Bank, an IMF loan, and the liberalisation, privatisation, and globalisation agenda.
As we observed environment day during one of the hottest Indian summers, the near absence of climate change as a civic discourse is alarming. At a time when the world finds itself in the...
In the aftermath of Andhra Pradesh microfinance crisis, erupted in 2010, RBI appointed a committee under the chairmanship of Shri Y H Malegam to study issues and concerns of the Microfinance Sector.Ā Non Banking...
