World Bank & International Finance: Legacy, Lessons & Current Struggles
This year, the World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings took place virtually from the 22nd to the 24th of April, 2022.
World Bank aided privatisation and commercialisation – sectoral learnings from India
Note to the readers: This is a mildly edited transcript of the talk given by the author at the World Without World Bank Campaign Week in 2021 at a panel titled “Privatisation, Commodification and...
Tata Mundra: Nobel laureate, others ask US apex court to drop immunity to World Bank
Economic, legal, diplomatic and civil society experts – including Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, and former Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank – have urged the United States Supreme Court...
Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz and Others Urge the US Supreme Court to Review World Bank Group Immunity in the Tata Mundra Finance Case
This week, prominent economic, legal, diplomatic, and civil society experts – including Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, and former Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank – submitted amicus briefs urging...
Railways Stare at Privatisation: World Bank offers to help National Rail Plan
The World Bank has outlined the role it can play as India looks to fund its ambitious National Rail Plan over the next 30 years, which envisages almost 8,000 km of high-speed corridors and...
The World Bank Group’s Uncounted
The Tata group, one of India’s largest conglomerates, promised to be a good neighbor when it took on the job of building the nation’s first “ultra mega” coal-fired power plant. The plan was to build...
A Big Win- IFC World Bank to Freeze Investment in For-Profit Schools
Recently, a piece of good news has appeared that World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) upholding the right to education in an official commitment and decided to freeze investments in private for-profit pre-primary,...
Inspection Panel’s Report on Amaravati Project only Validates the Issues Raised by CSOs
For immediate release Inspection Panel’s Report on Amaravati Project only Validates the Issues Raised by CSOs July 26, 2019: Confirming the concerns raised by the communities and civil society organisations, Government of India withdrew...
विश्व बैंक के बाद, एशियन इन्फ्रास्ट्रक्चर इन्वेस्टमेंट बैंक ने अपना निवेश अमरावती कैपिटल सिटी परियोजना से वापस लिया
प्रेस रिलीज | २३ जुलाई २०१९ विश्व बैंक के बाद, एशियन इन्फ्रास्ट्रक्चर इन्वेस्टमेंट बैंक ने अपना निवेश अमरावती कैपिटल सिटी परियोजना से वापस लिया चीन के नेतृत्व वाले एशियन इन्फ्रास्ट्रक्चर इन्वेस्टमेंट बैंक (AIIB) ने आंध्र प्रदेश के अमरावती कैपिटल सिटी...
Press Release: After World Bank, AIIB Pulls Out of Amaravati Capital City Project
Press Release | July 23, 2019 After the World Bank, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Pulls Out of Amaravati Capital City Project New Delhi: The China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) pulled out of Amaravati Capital...
विश्व बैंक ने अमरावती कैपिटल सिटी परियोजना से हाथ खींचा, लोगों को मिली बड़ी सफ़लता
विश्व बैंक ने अमरावती कैपिटल सिटी परियोजना से हाथ खींचा, लोगों को मिली बड़ी सफ़लता प्रेस विज्ञप्ति | 20 जुलाई, 2019 एक बड़े ऐतिहासिक कदम, जिसका प्रभाव कई स्तर पर देखने को मिलेगा, उठाते...
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...
US Supreme Court Rules Against World Bank’s Claim of Absolute Immunity
In late February, the US Supreme Court ruled against the claim by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank’s private sector arm, to absolute immunity from suit in the US. The case was...
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...
CSOs Approach World Bank to Strengthen the Inspection Panel
October 5, 2018, New Delhi: Medha Patkar, Bharat Patel, Nityanand Jayaraman and other members of the CSOs across India, have criticised the Working Group of the World Bank Board’s Committee on Development Effectiveness (CODE),...
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