Joshimath Continues to Sink! | Atul Sati on Ongoing Land Subsidence Crisis
🎙️ Atul Sati, peoples' rights activist and convenor of Joshimath Bachao Sangharsh Samiti highlights the alarming situation.
Vadhavan Port: A Development Mirage at the Cost of People and Ecology?
A ₹76,220 crore mega-port in Maharashtra is being pushed under Sagarmala, threatening fishers, farmers, and Adivasis in Palghar.
Economic Survey 2025: Development for Whom? | Finance Matters, 31 January 2025 | Editorial
The Economic Survey 2025 tabled by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, projects a 6.3 – 6.8% growth rate for FY 26, ahead of the Union Budget 2025-26. But, what does it mean to the common...
Development of Local Economy by Grassroots Organizations – An Experience from the South
The entire economy of the country is under stress today. Unprecedented unemployment, lack of support for micro enterprises, communal tensions, lack of markets for produce, intermediaries taking a major share of the profit, erosion...
Revisiting Bretton Woods@ 80: Critiques and Calls for Change in Global Development
In 1994, the New York Times described the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) as “overlords of Africa” and ostensibly so the bankers have indeed become overlords of the global south since the globalisation...
Interrogating the World Bank and IMF at 80: Development or hypocrisy?
On their 80th birthday, the colonial legacies of the World Bank (collectively for the IBRD – International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the IDA – International Development Association) and the International Monetary Fund...
World Bank @ 80: Radical Restructuring, Not Reforms
The 80th anniversary of the World Bank is a good time to bury the arguments in favor of reforming the institution and strengthen the demand for radical restructuring. The past eight decades did not...
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देश आजादी के बाद समाजवादी आर्थिक - सामाजिक व्यवस्था की स्थापना के लिए संकल्प लिया था। इस संकल्प को पूरा करने संविधान निर्माता भीमराव आंबेडकर ने इसे संविधान के प्रस्तावना में स्थान दिया।
Are we planning monumental destruction in the name of the Great Nicobar Development Plan?
The Great Nicobar Development Plan, also known as the "Holistic Development of Great Nicobar Island" plan, is a major infrastructure initiative planned in the Great Nicobar Island, located in the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago...
Blue Economy 2.0 and Sagarmala program | Infrastructure finance update, March 2024
The spotlight shines on transformative initiatives as Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman unveils the Blue Economy 2.0 and bolsters the Sagarmala program in the interim budget for 2024-2025.
Concrete Ambitions: The Environmental and Livelihood Toll of BJP’s Decade-Long Infrastructure Drive
In the past decade, NDA's approach to development through relentless pursuit of infrastructure has come at a steep cost. To say the least, it has been both uncooperative and myopic in nature.
Economists Term CMIE Employment Rate Increase Claim ‘Sham’
Real earnings have increased only for casual work, economists said at a conference titled ‘Measuring Recovery’. Several economists have termed the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy’s (CMIE) claim that the labour market witnessed an...
The Indian Infrastructure Finance Market attempts to revive PPPs
The infrastructure sector has been a very dynamic space in the last few years given the push by the government on creation of infrastructure for businesses as well as to meet SDG targets. This...
India’s smart cities project hounded by delays
India's Smart Cities Mission (SCM) was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in June 2015, identifying 100 cities in order to provide them with core infrastructure, along with a clean and sustainable environment.
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