International Finance Institutions, Infrastructure, and Commons
Soumya Dutta, Beyond Copenhagen Collective and PAIRVI, linking IFIs, their push for Infrastructure, and impact on public commons.
MASS Welcomes US Supreme Court’s Decision on IFC Case
For immediate release MASS Welcomes the US Supreme Court’s Decision to Hear the Case Challenging World Bank Group Immunity This will be the first time the US Supreme Court will address the scope of...
What You Won’t Hear at the World Bank’s Spring Meetings Next Week
The World Bank Group will host its 2018 Spring Meetings next week, bringing together representatives of governments, banking institutions, civil society, the private sector, and academics to “discuss issues of global concern, including the...
The World Bank and IMF’s approach to social protection
While it is generally accepted that social protection is a core public service, the design of national systems is highly contested. There are two broad camps in the debate: one regards social protection as...
Legal Experts Urge Supreme Court to Hear Case Challenging World Bank Immunity
International law and human rights law experts are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear our clients’ case, Jam v. International Finance Corporation challenging the immunity of the International Finance Corp. (IFC), the private...
The US Supreme Court is Our Last Hope
For Immediate Release The US Supreme Court is Our Last Hope to Ensure Accountability of the World Bank Group January 23, 2018, Washington, D.C. and Mundra, Gujarat: Fishing communities and farmers affected by Tata...
53 development experts call bluff on IMF’s social protection
Over fifty renowned economists, academics and development experts from across the world recently wrote to the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund to express concern over the IMF “independent” evaluation of The IMF and social protection,...
IMF Violates International Human Rights Laws: UN Human Rights Experts
Several UN human rights experts last month wrote an open letter to the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund to express their dismay about the general approach of the IMF to social security reforms that has...
The Cost of Ease of Doing Business Ranking
What is diluted, amended, and narrowed down for making it easy for businesses is eroding of the rights of people
IMF and World Bank: Marching to a G20 Tune?
This year, the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors’ Meeting on October 12-13 overlapped with the IMF-World Bank annual meeting on October 13-15 in Washington, DC. As of December 1, 2017, Argentina becomes...
Debunking World Bank’s argument on large-scale infrastructure investment
World Bank’s Chief Economist Ejaz Ghani recently advocated for the large-scale infrastructure investment mentioning that Golden Quadrilateral project has given a massive boost to manufacturing activity and productivity in districts located within 10km of...
Communities affected by Tata Mundra will ask U.S. Supreme Court to hear case against IFC challenging “absolute immunity”
September 27, 2017, Mundra, Gujarat: Fishing communities and farmers affected by Tata Mundra said on Friday that they would approach the U.S. Supreme Court to review the decision of U.S. Court of Appeals for...
BRICS 2017 Offers Nothing New
For those closely looking at the trajectories of IFIs, especially the current trends of the New Development Bank (NDB) or the BRICS Bank, well, it’s all pancakes and fritters with news of NDB and...
Communities affected by Tata Mundra rejects ADB’s Annual Monitoring Report
Report subverts the real issues while focusing only on the frivolous ones August 25, 2017, Kutch, Gujarat: Communities affected by the Tata Mundra (Coastal Gujarat Power Ltd – CGPL) coal power plant in Kutch...
ADB’s Annual Monitoring Report on Tata Mundra rejected: Press Statement
Press Statement: 22 .8.2017 ADB’s Annual Monitoring Report on Tata Mundra rejected: Report subverts the real issues while focusing only on the frivolous ones Kutch, Gujarat: Communities affected by the Tata Mundra (Coastal Gujarat Power...
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