World Bank & International Finance: Legacy, Lessons & Current Struggles
This year, the World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings took place virtually from the 22nd to the 24th of April, 2022.
Handbook on India and the Free Trade Agreements
The handbook on India’s Free Trade and Investment Agreements is an attempt to keep pace with the dynamic nature of free trade and investment agreements.
Unpacking the WTO and Free Trade Agreements
With the growing integration of economic activities around the world, international trade has become an interesting arena for observers of international political economy and development practices.
World Development Report 2022 released; Historic leak of Swiss banking, Credit Suisse in the eye of the storm
Snippets from the world of International Finance Amidst Russia’s revanchist war against Ukraine starting last week, there is lots of ink on the financial markets and the sequence will hit the global economy. The...
AIIB Reviewing Energy Strategy; ADB, its Safeguard Policies
A year ago, we welcomed 2021 with a sense of optimism that the international community will rise to the challenge of ensuring equal vaccine access to all countries, but then the second wave of...
Reading the Rhetoric: G20, its Politics & What the 2023 Presidency Means for India
Founded in 1999, in the wake of the Asian Financial Crisis, G20’s formation was announced by the finance ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) as the forum for international cooperation on financial and...
Ensuring green equity means equity for people and the planet
With the world facing a climate crisis, urgent action is required on many fronts, not least in ensuring adequate levels of climate finance to support mitigation and adaptation in the Global South. Campaigns to...
World Bank’s Doing Business Report is Just the Tip of the Iceberg!
In September, the World Bank announced that it would discontinue the publication of the Doing Business Report and Ranking (DBR). This overdue decision came after a series of internal audits and an investigation that...
Where do Indian banks stand in the global fight against climate change?
Indian banks and financial institutions are lagging behind international financial institutions in helping control the climate crisis, research shows. Indian banks and financial institutions, including the State Bank of India (SBI), ICICI, Axis Bank, the...
Global climate action: Indian banks need to accelerate green financing
Indian banks and financial institutions are lagging behind international financial institutions in helping control the climate crisis, research shows. Indian banks and financial institutions, including the State Bank of India (SBI), ICICI, Axis Bank,...
A Financial Package with Little Relief Contents, Govt pushes Policy Reforms which Benefits Corporates but not the People
The financial package, amounting to Rs 20 lakh Crore and claimed to be 10% of the GDP was announced by the Prime Minister with much fanfare. Yet when details were announced by the Finance...
AIIB’s Covid Financing For India Comes Under Scanner
All multilateral banks have certain policies and processes. Notwithstanding the growing pressure of the affected communities and civil society, these banks bring out documents essentially to satisfy themselves on paper. It is a make-believe...
Lessons Not Learnt- The World Bank’s disturbing push to privatise Indian education
In September 2018, the Indian government unveiled a massive three-billion-dollar project—Strengthening Teaching-Learning and Results for States, or STARS— designed in collaboration with the World Bank to improve the country’s education system. While 85 percent...
Corona Uncovering the Cracks in Capitalism
The COVID-19 corona epidemic that has taken over 16,99,019 lives all around the world has undoubtedly been a disaster with no parallels in modern history. Political and social analysts describe this pandemic as the...
Coal-Ravaged Indian Fishers Take to the Supreme Court
WILD ANIMALS ONCE RAN AMONG the acacia trees outside Navinal, one of many small villages hugging the Gulf of Kutch–an inlet on India’s northwest coast. Gajendra Singh Jadeja remembers them well: Cattle foraged for...
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