The Lankan Crisis: Lessons for India
While the mainstream media covers the turmoil in Sri Lanka as something that is unfolding on a day to day basis, what is lost out is the long term trajectories that have precipitated the...
Coveted IMF-WB Spring meetings conclude with a vow to fiddle; MC12 round the corner
We are posting these snippets at a time when the mega yearly rituals of the World Bank and IMF a.k.a the Annual General Meetings, have ended and the balance of payment crisis in Sri...
Civil society urges for a world without the World Bank | Press Release
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) along with the Board of Governors of the World Bank (WB) Group is having its annual Spring meeting from April 18th- 24, 2022 in order to commemorate another year...
Sowing Trouble: Contextualizing India’s Farm Laws against the backdrop of World Bank and IMF
This booklet is a result of webinars under the World Without World Bank campaign that brings together activists, academicians and other civil society groups to protest, respond to the World Bank’s neoliberal reforms.
Post Covid Funds for India
Since the COVID-19 crisis emerged, MDBs have stepped in with massive packages for economic, social and health support. Details of funds received by India from Multilateral Development Banks for COVID-19 recovery support as of 30th October...
World Without World Bank Possible: Activists
Action Week on World Bank Brings Together Social & Political Activists, Probing their Past and Demanding Accountability Press Release | October 16, 2020 New Delhi: A key message reverberating in the week long protest...
Indian Civil Society Groups Announce “World Without World Bank” Action Week
Highlight the Impacts on Key Sectors in India During IMF-WB 2020 Annual Meetings Date: 12 October, 2020 New Delhi: People’s Movements, Civil Society Groups, and concerned citizens are coming together to protest the World...
Random Reflection: PMO, Finance Ministry and the Finance Mess
It’s a known fact that decisions of every Ministry is taken by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), which has officers responsible for each Ministry. For a population of 130 billion, one PMO, which earlier...
The Invisible hand of International Financial Institutions (IFIs)
(How Public Banks are going to be privatised and land, labor reforms are being gradually pushed in the country) In a capitalist system, it is said that the market correct itself through the invisible...
Snippets from the World of International Financial Institutions – August, 2019
IMF Chief Election Over 100 organisations across the world recently signed an open letter demanding an end to the ‘Gentleman Agreement,’ as per which only Europeans are selected as the Managing Director of the International...
Snippets from the World of International Financial Institutions – July, 2019
The Resignation of IMF Chief, and Western Dominance in IFIs Christine Lagarde, IMF’s Managing Director, resigned this month after she was nominated to head the European Central Bank. She previously served as France’s finance minister during...
Snippets from the World of International Financial Institutions – June, 2019
This monthly column tracking developments in the world of the international finance looks into the review of Equator Principles, ITUC’s critique on IMF Framework on Social Spending, and World Bank’s report on the Global...
Snippets from the World of International Financial Institutions – May, 2019
IMF loans a continuous saga of conditionality. The latest in the countries that have received the International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans after Greece and Turkey is Pakistan. This is Pakistan’s thirteenth loan from IMF...
Snippets from the World of International Financial Institutions – April, 2019
The New World Bank President The annual Spring Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was held in Washington DC this year with...
The Economics Of Julian Assange’s Arrest
Yesterday Julian Assange, co-founder of Wikileaks, was arrested from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he took refuge seven years back, after the Ecuadorian government’s withdrawal of asylum. Interestingly, exactly a month back, on...
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