The Centre for Financial Accountability said coal received $9.4bn last year, compared to clean technologies receiving $3.5bn Indiaâs public-owned banks and finance groups lent more money to coal projects than renewables in 2017. Thatâs according...
June 19, 2018 – A new analysis of energy project lending shows that majority of government owned banks and financial institutions continued to fund coal projects in 2017. The same analysis also reveals private...
This report identified and reviewed project finance lending to 72 energy projects, comprising coal-fired power stations and renewable energy generation facilities in India that reached financial close in 2017. These projects attracted total lending...
Siddharth Chakravarty of The Research Collective explains the Blue Economy, its impact on the coastal economy, and the role of international financial institutions in pushing this project.
Jesu Rathnam, Coastal Action Network, says that the Sagarmala project, which envisages the development of infrastructure projects- like highways, ports, jetties- along with the coast of India, will lead to the destruction of the...
According to recent news published on the Business Standard, the leading banks of India are designing a scheme for bailing out stressed assets in the power sector, which, as per the latest report of Parliamentary Standing Committee on...
Public Statement | May 24, 2018 Walmart-Flipkart Deal: Continuing Attack On Retailers, Producers, Farmers & Labour, And On Indiaâs Digital Sovereignty The US-based Multinational Corporation (MNC) Walmartâs acquisition of Flipkart undermines Indiaâs economic and...
The report âCitizens’ Report on the âFour Years of the NDA Government, 2014-18: Promises & Realityâ â a civil society initiative’ is a collective work by experts, development networks and civil society organisations working...
There has been a worldwide growth in hydropower development, with 31.5 GW new capacity installed in 2016. This figure includes 6.4 GW of pumped storage â nearly double the previous year â while there...
The 2017 Global Findex Database of the World Bank Group portrays India in a remarkably favourable light owing to the sharp increase in the number of bank account holders in the country, but the...
Public Statement | April 27, 2018 After Demonetisation, now the Cash Crunch in ATMs: Modi Government Wrecking Public Sector Banks and the Indian Economy A Joint Statement In the past few weeks, ATMs across...
Nearly 100 major groups and several prominent experts have attacked the NDA government for the manner in which the banks and economy are being wrecked due to the impact of demonetisation followed by the...
âWhy do the big corporations who owe 80% of NPAs go scot-free?,” M.K. Venu of the Wire asked at the public meeting titled ‘Crisis in the Banking Sector: Who Stole? Who Pays?’ Crisis in...
An intervention of Anupam, Swaraj India, at the public meeting titled âCrisis in the Banking Sector: Who Stole? Who Pays? âCrisis in the Banking Sector: Who Stole? Who Pays?â Crisis in the Banking Sector: Who...
New Delhi: âCorruption today is not moral degeneration but is a systemic loot. It results in huge accumulation and inequity,â said Nilotpal Basu, CPI(M) leader, at a public meeting organized at the Press Club...