Conversations on Finance Understanding Goods and Service Tax (GST), its impact and implications GST, as a concept, introduced by the UPA government in the budget speech by Chidambaram, is a reality today. Pranab Mukherjee,...
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...
A group of civil society organisations, which has reviewed, and analysed the 2017 draft of the National Energy Policy (NEP), submitted its comments and suggestions from the financial perspective for improving the draft of...
The union cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has recently approved the proposal to introduce the Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance (FRDI) Bill, 2017 in the upcoming monsoon session of the Parliament. The...
Like India once had a Ministry of Disinvestment, it’s time she has a Ministry of Loss Making. How else can one understand governmentās eagerness to buy out all loss making projects, whether in coal,...
Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) recently concluded its Second Annual Board of Governorsā meeting in Jeju, South Korea.Ā The three-day-long meeting, during June 16-18, 2017, saw the participation of Board of Governors, representatives from...
A U.S. Federal Court has held that the International Finance Corporation (IFC) is entitled to āabsolute immunityā from lawsuits brought by communities harmed by IFC projects. The case, filed by communities affected by the...
Non-Performing Assets (NPAs), a euphemism for toxic or bad loans, has been looming over Public Sector Banks (PSBs) for over a year. C. P. Krishnan, the General Secretary of Bank Employees Federation of India...
For Immediate Release Federal Appeals Court Rules That World Bank Group Cannot Be Sued For Harming Communities Affected Communities Plan Further Legal Challenge June 27, 2017, Washington D.C., and Mundra: The U.S. Court of...
Press Statement | 26 June 2017 Bailout Pleas by both Adani and Tata Projects in Mundra a symptom of larger menace; Government should not acquire liabilities, to waste public money; Both corporations should be...
Press Release January 6, 2017: New Delhi Prominent peopleās movements and other civil society organisations from India today extended their support and solidarity to the struggle against the India supported Rampal power project in...
An Analysis of Parliamentary Debates in India on International Financial Institutions (1984-2009) This report critically examines how international financial institutions (IFIs) such as the World Bank, IMF, and Asian Development Bank have increasingly influenced...
Indian banks should have safeguard policies of the kind followed by international financial institutions. Despite the crisis in several parts of India following demonetisation, which sucked outĀ 86%Ā of the currency in circulation overnight, one of...
Dr Thomas Franco, the vice president of All India Bank Officers Confederation, says Urjit Patel (RBI Governor) is morally responsible for causing crisis and deaths in the country. Franco said the government should have...
Prof. Prabhat Patnaik speaks on demonetisation and the problem
