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Booklet: Smart Cities Mission in India: Footprints of IFIs

This booklet is a first in a series that looks to provide an overview of the smart cities at a conceptual level, smart cities mission in India, development of smart cities globally, the role...

Read more July 26, 2019 at 9:15 pm Gaurav Dwivedi

Update: A Great Victory: The Fight Continues!

In its historic decision on 27th Feb 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that international organizations like the World Bank Group “don’t enjoy absolute immunity”. Simply put, with this judgement, the World Bank and...

Read more April 6, 2019 at 9:00 am Anuradha Munshi

Between 2015-2018, India Paid Around Rs 400 Crore As Commitment Charges

Answering to a question in the parliament, Pon Radhakrishnan, the Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance, revealed that between the financial year 2015-2018, India paid Rs 396.775 crore as Commitment Charges to the...

Read more February 22, 2019 at 6:37 pm Ankit Agrawal

Court Quiet, but Potentially Skeptical, on Immunity for International Organisations

The Supreme Court heard oral argument this morning in a dispute over immunity for the International Finance Corporation, an international organization that makes loans to private businesses to finance projects in developing countries. The...

Read more November 3, 2018 at 12:20 pm Amy Howe

People’s Movements Challenge World Bank Immunity in US Supreme Court

October 31, 2018, New Delhi.: The Supreme Court of the United States of America heard the oral arguments in the historic case filed by the villagers from Mundra, Gujarat against the absolute immunity granted...

Read more October 31, 2018 at 7:16 am Ankit Agrawal

US Supreme Court to Consider Immunity for IOs

The plaintiffs contend that the plant’s construction caused saltwater to leach into the local groundwater. They say that the plant’s ‘cooling system discharges thermal pollution into the sea, killing off marine life on which...

Read more October 24, 2018 at 2:15 pm Amy Howe

Civil Society Groups Welcome IFC Coal Plan but Push for More

NUSA DUA, Indonesia — Civil society groups have welcomed a move by the International Finance Corporation to transition the financial institutions it invests in away from supporting coal projects — but some say it...

Read more October 10, 2018 at 10:59 am Devex

Update: Tata Mundra, a Story of Violations, Non-Compliance & Impunity

Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project India is part of an ambitious plan, which saw the building of several coal-based thermal power stations to meet India’s energy needs. Located on the western coast of...

Read more October 7, 2018 at 11:56 am Anuradha Munshi

Finance Capital, Increase in Disparity, and the Philosophical Changes

Prof Arun Kumar speaking on the finance capital, increase in disparity, and the philosophical changes in the society. He was speaking at the speaking at the Symposium on India’s Engagements and Experiences with Accountability...

Read more September 14, 2018 at 4:03 pm CFA

Briefing Paper: An Indian Perspective on NDB & AIIB

The Asian region has experienced the emergence of new MDBs over last few years. For many years, the Asian Development Bank was the only development bank in the region and has been dominated by...

Read more July 23, 2018 at 1:56 pm Gaurav Dwivedi

Challenging Legal Impunity Granted to IFIs

Most of the International Financial Institutions enjoy legal immunity in most of the countries. The immunity enjoyed by IFI’s like the World Bank Group raises pertinent questions around the extent of immunity granted to...

Read more July 22, 2018 at 3:23 pm CFA

The Best of Finance Matters: First Anniversary Issue

A year back when we started our weekly newsletter Finance Matters, what we intended was to bring together the news and analysis from the world of finance, in a form and language comprehensible to...

Read more July 6, 2018 at 3:21 pm CFA

Mumbai Resolution on Infrastructure Financing in India

In the political resolution adopted at the end of the People Convention on Infrastructure Financing delegates resolved to challenge the undemocratic and economically unsound functioning of IFIs including AIIB, World Bank, IFC and others....

Read more June 25, 2018 at 2:27 pm CFA

Booklet: The Trap of Doing Business Rankings

The Doing Business Report and the Ease of Doing Business Index is one of the flagship reports of the World Bank Group, a co-publication of World Bank and International Finance Corporation – the private...

Read more June 16, 2018 at 10:41 am Maju Varghese

Smart Cities and Urban Governance

Gaurav Dwivedi explains how the Smart Cities would be funded and implemented, and how the project would impact the functioning of the Urban Local Bodies.

Read more June 12, 2018 at 11:50 am CFA
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