Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) in collaboration with The Wire (as the media partner), Sambhaavnaa Institute & Progressive International, are co-organising a series of webinars conceived to better understand the global moment we are all inhabiting. The eight part webinar series...
The Bretton Woods institutions – the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF)- have completed 80 years of existence and operations. As people of the global south, who continue to bear the brunt of...
This year, the World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings took place virtually from the 22nd to the 24th of April, 2022.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
