Fossil Fuel Phase-Out Poses A Narrowing Window For India
While the climate change conference marks the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel era, India will have to urgently find ways to move away from coal. Securing finance for new projects is...
Mind the gap: It is time to close the gap in measuring inequality
A panel discussion at the Golden Jubilee Conference of CESP, JNU
Average 30 Farmer Suicides Per Day in Modi Govt Years Points to a Systemic Apathy
The attempt by neoliberal governance has been to steadily depoliticise farmers' suicides and strip them of any deeper messaging.
‘New jobs distress-driven’: Economists criticise CMIE claim of upward trend in employment
At a time when the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy’s (CMIE’s) report claims an upward trend in employment in India’s labour market with 15 million people entering the workforce, senior economists have sought to...
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...
वित्तीय संस्थानों के लिए पर्यावरण और सामाजिक जवाबदेही नीतियों की आवश्यकता
वित्तीय संस्थानों में पर्यावरण और सामाजिक जवाबदेही नीतियां क्या हैं? ये वित्तीय संस्थानों को उनके द्वारा वित्त पोषित परियोजनाओं के सामाजिक और पर्यावरणीय प्रभावों के लिए जवाबदेह बनाने के लिए तंत्र हैं। वास्तविक प्रावधान...
Tipping the Scales: Why We Need to Tax the Ultra-Rich Tipping the Scales
An article series published in Deccan Herald, curated in collaboration with the Centre for Financial Accountability.
न्यायोचित कराधान
भारत में कई वर्षों से असमानता बढ़ती जा रही है। कुछ ऐतिहासिक कारकों और वर्तमान नीतियों के कारण उत्पन्न धन के इस संकेंद्रण पर अगर ध्यान नहीं दिया गया तो यह कई लोगों के...
Just Taxation
Inequality has been escalating over the years in India. This concentration of wealth resulting from certain historical factors and current policies if not addressed will continue to shatter the lives of many. A just...
A Statement sans Solutions: India’s G20 Presidency and Its Outcome
The 18th G20 Leaders’ Summit, under India’s Presidency, concluded with the adoption of the New Delhi Declaration. In the backdrop of the war in Ukraine and a “new cold war” between the US and...
Institutions expecting mega-scale in future infrastructure projects
The infrastructure continues to be the focus to push the economic growth rates in India. This month’s update provides the developments around the financial institutions such as India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd (IIFCL), Rural...
G20: Im Interesse der besitzenden Klassen
Vom 8. bis 10. September 2023 richtet die indische Regierung den G20-Gipfel in Neu-Delhi aus. Sie nutzt das Event geschickt, um sich vor der eigenen Bevölkerung als globalpolitisches Schwergewicht zu präsentieren.
Why the G20 declaration is far from the triumph it’s being hailed to be
Aside from a muted criticism of the Ukraine war, the statement is non-committal on climate goals, energy transition and addressing Global South concerns.
India No 1 in world coal mining boom, thanks to Coal India, Adani Group: German NGO
Urgewald, a German environment and human rights NGO, which claims to be working for establishing strong environmental and social standards for the international finance industry, has called India "the number one hotspot of the...
If There Was Political Will, India’s Raging Cost of Living Crisis Could Be Eased
While the government is happy to externalise the crisis to the invasion of Ukraine alone and its effect on fuel prices, it is the food inflation that has seen a much sharper upward swing.
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