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Snippets from the World of International Financial Institutions – August, 2019

IMF Chief Election Over 100 organisations across the world recently signed an open letter demanding an end to the ‘Gentleman Agreement,’ as per which only Europeans are selected as the Managing Director of the International...

Read more August 30, 2019 at 12:42 pm Maju Varghese

Snippets from the World of International Financial Institutions – July, 2019

The Resignation of IMF Chief, and Western Dominance in IFIs Christine Lagarde, IMF’s Managing Director, resigned this month after she was nominated to head the European Central Bank. She previously served as France’s finance minister during...

Read more July 27, 2019 at 2:01 pm Maju Varghese

Snippets from the World of International Financial Institutions – June, 2019

This monthly column tracking developments in the world of the international finance looks into the review of Equator Principles, ITUC’s critique on IMF Framework on Social Spending, and World Bank’s report on the Global...

Read more June 29, 2019 at 10:17 am Maju Varghese

Snippets from the World of International Financial Institutions – May, 2019

IMF loans a continuous saga of conditionality. The latest in the countries that have received the International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans after Greece and Turkey is Pakistan. This is Pakistan’s thirteenth loan from IMF...

Read more May 31, 2019 at 3:26 pm Maju Varghese

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

Break the BRICS! Break it from the Below!

The 10th BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) Summit was held in Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa from 25-27 July 2018. Set up in 2009, in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial...

Read more September 26, 2018 at 5:48 pm Himshi Singh

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

Booklet: Tentacles of the International Finance in India

This document is an effort to compile data of investments coming into India from MDBs, ExIm banks and other bilateral investments, to help understand the landscape of financing from these institutions and helping to...

Read more March 10, 2018 at 10:49 am CFA

Huge Overlap in Investments by MDBs, ExIM Banks, and Bilaterals on Critical Sectors

Ever since the first lending from World Bank in 1949 worth $34 million to Indian Railways and the bilateral credit India received from the erstwhile USSR and USA in the early 50s, India has...

Read more March 10, 2018 at 12:46 am Joe Athialy

The Murky Business of Ease of Doing Business Ranking

In a major revelation, Paul Romer, the chief economist of World Bank apologized to Chile for changes to the Ease of Doing reports methodology which conveyed the wrong impression of the business environment under...

Read more January 19, 2018 at 5:59 pm Maju Varghese

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

Ease of doing business or Ease of diluting labour safety? 

On November 1st, 2017 India witnessed one of the largest boiler accidents in recent times. An NTPC plant originally supported by Asian Development Bank met with an accident in their newly built unit. As...

Read more December 26, 2017 at 11:41 am Maju Varghese

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

India paid over 600 crores between 2009-2015 to the IFIs for not using their loans

Every year, India pays an enormous amount of money as commitment charges to the multilateral institutions for not utilising the loans sanctioned by them. Investopedia defines commitment charges as the fee charged by the lender...

Read more August 3, 2017 at 9:09 pm Maju Varghese
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