Express News Service, VIJAYAWADA: Expressing concern over the unchecked borrowing from different banks and funding agencies across the globe by the TDP Government in the State, experts from National Association of People’s Movements (NAPM)...
Soumya Dutta, Beyond Copenhagen Collective and PAIRVI, linking IFIs, their push for Infrastructure, and impact on public commons.
Shaktiman Ghosh, National General Secretary of the National Hawkers Federation, on the IFIs and their Impact on People
BloombergQuint The Fineprint | Are Gujarat farmers likely to succeed against World Bank’s lending arm IFC – International Finance Corporation? Vermont Law School’s John Echeverria & CFA’s Joe Athialy share their views.
In a major revelation, Paul Romer, the chief economist of World Bank apologized to Chile for changes to the Ease of Doing reports methodology which conveyed the wrong impression of the business environment under...
Several UN human rights experts last month wrote an open letter to the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund to express their dismay about the general approach of the IMF to social security reforms that has...
For those closely looking at the trajectories of IFIs, especially the current trends of the New Development Bank (NDB) or the BRICS Bank, well, it’s all pancakes and fritters with news of NDB and...
Report subverts the real issues while focusing only on the frivolous ones August 25, 2017, Kutch, Gujarat: Communities affected by the Tata Mundra (Coastal Gujarat Power Ltd – CGPL) coal power plant in Kutch...
Press Statement: 22 .8.2017 ADB’s Annual Monitoring Report on Tata Mundra rejected: Report subverts the real issues while focusing only on the frivolous ones Kutch, Gujarat: Communities affected by the Tata Mundra (Coastal Gujarat Power...
Every year, India pays an enormous amount of money as commitment charges to the multilateral institutions for not utilising the loans sanctioned by them. Investopedia defines commitment charges as the fee charged by the lender...
Anuradha Munshi International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, is going to invest up to $6 billion in the next five years on various sustainable and renewable energy programmes in...
For Immediate Release After a Judge declared World Bank immunity cases “wrongly decided,” the communities affected by the Tata Mundra project approach US court to review “absolute immunity” doctrine Communities harmed by Tata Mundra...
With Subhash Chandra Garg assuming charge as secretary of the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) in the Finance Ministry, the position of the Indian Executive Director (ED) at the World Bank has fallen vacant. The 1983-batch...
Like India once had a Ministry of Disinvestment, it’s time she has a Ministry of Loss Making. How else can one understand government’s eagerness to buy out all loss making projects, whether in coal,...
The Constitution of India has accorded the Parliament the supremacy among the three organs of the Union government viz legislature, executive, and judiciary. Parliament not only makes the laws but also enables the citizens...