International Finance Institutions, Infrastructure, and Commons

Soumya Dutta, Beyond Copenhagen Collective and PAIRVI, linking IFIs, their push for Infrastructure, and impact on public commons.

Read more June 5, 2018 at 3:03 pm CFA

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...

Read more May 24, 2018 at 7:56 pm CFA

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...

Read more April 17, 2018 at 3:42 pm Michelle Harrison

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...

Read more April 10, 2018 at 2:34 pm Stephen Kidd

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...

Read more March 9, 2018 at 4:33 pm Michelle Harrison

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...

Read more January 23, 2018 at 3:52 pm CFA

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,...

Read more January 19, 2018 at 3:05 pm Ankit Agrawal

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...

Read more January 12, 2018 at 6:00 pm Ankit Agrawal

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

Read more December 4, 2017 at 12:23 pm Governance Now

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...

Read more November 5, 2017 at 5:51 am Nancy Alexander

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...

Read more October 28, 2017 at 5:03 pm Leo Saldanha

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...

Read more October 1, 2017 at 10:27 am CFA

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...

Read more September 8, 2017 at 4:18 pm Tani Alex

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...

Read more August 26, 2017 at 2:26 pm Anuradha Munshi

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...

Read more August 22, 2017 at 12:51 pm Anuradha Munshi