As the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) annual meeting kicks off on Friday, a coalition of NGOs will hold a protest to call on the multilateral financial institution to live up to its “lean,...
Activists from across the world are planning demonstrations against the bank over its fossil fuel investments The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is holding its first ever annual meeting outside of Asia on 12-13...
With large infrastructure projects at the core of its investment support strategy, it is essential for the AIIB to ensure that their funds are directed to sustainable investments. In a country like India, where...
कैंब्रिज के अर्थशास्त्री, हा-जून चांग का मानना है कि ‘अर्थशास्त्र का 95 प्रतिशत सिर्फ सामान्य समझ है, जिसे गणित और भारी-भरकम शब्दावली का प्रयोग करके मुश्किल बनाया जाता है।’ इससे हम समझ सकते हैं...
Bharat Patel, General Secretary, Machimar Adhikar Sangharsh Sangathan, narrating the history of violations by the IFC, Tata Mundra Power Plant and Peoples’ Resistance to it. The MAAS filed a case in the US federal...
As many of you are aware, we ran an intense stakeholder engagement process on Right to the City and the Smart City in India, over a long period of time. This was part of...
AIIB Third Annual Governors Meeting Prioritises PPPs and Investments in Funds to Mobilize Private Capital for Infrastructure as the Way Forward The last week of June saw India host the third annual meeting of...
Professor Arun Kumar questioned the model of economic growth by asking who is it for. The economy is not growing at 7%, as claimed by the government, the big shocks of demonetisation and GST...
“AIIB has created a superstructure, an ecosystem which acts as a complex web of shining terminologies and projects to attract investments, which actually is a smoke screen to hide the fact that there’s no...
Senior activist Ulka Mahajan of Sarvahara Jan Andolan said, “The infrastructure that is being developed is not what people demand, but it is what global capital demands. The international financial institutions are promoting corporate...
The information available in public domain is that JICA is financing the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train Project by lending 88 thousand crore rupees at an interest rate of 0.1%. Payback period is 50 years with...
MUMBAI, India — The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank on Monday announced support for India’s National Investment and Infrastructure Fund. The $100 million equity investment is the first phase of funding for NIIF, a collaborative platform...
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, which meets in Mumbai this week, needs to prove that its clients have robust social, environmental and disclosure policies and practices. Along the route from Mumbai’s international airport in...
“AIIB’s proposed $ 200 million deal with India’s $2.1 billion National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) would threaten to revive a host of stalled projects in the country potentially including coal, power, petroleum, railways...
Mumbai, June 23: “The so-called ‘development’ must not come at the cost of constitutional rights,” said prominent activist and Goldman Environment Awardee Prafulla Samantra at the press conference, which was organised on the last...