Submission to the Inspection Panel Working Group We are happy to note the Working Group of the World Bank Board’s Committee on Development Effectiveness is reviewing the Inspection Panel’s toolkit to determine whether it...
A fishing community in India challenges the bank’s private-lending arm in the US Supreme Court. The US Supreme Court sits more than 12,000 miles from Tragadi Bandar, the patch of India’s west coast where...
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...
25 years of Inspection Panel has a special significance for India, having played a key role in its formation. As in the case of all safeguard and other policies, the independent accountability mechanisms (IAMs)...
This year, the Inspection Panel, the accountability mechanism of the World Bank, is completing 25 years. The World Bank’s failure to comply with its operating policies was seen by the entire world in the...
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...
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....
It is important to analyse and reflect upon these financial institutions and how their projects have fueled inequality throughout the world. The workshop would have speakers who would speak on various financial institutions and...
This workshop enabled discussions on IFI model of reforms in water supply services, including privatisation/ PPPs and commercialisation. The discussion also included the concepts of right to water and its implementation at the community...
इस सेक्टर में निजी क्षत्रे को आकर्षित करने के लिए सरकार ने 2016 में इस पर चर्चा शुरू की कि नवीकरणीय ऊर्जा के क्षत्रे को और विस्तृत किया जाए ताकि 25 मेगावाट क्षमता से...
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...
Siddharth Chakravarty of The Research Collective explains the Blue Economy, its impact on the coastal economy, and the role of international financial institutions in pushing this project.
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.
‘Easy loans by international banks damaging national policies’ Staff Reporter, Vijayawada: Bharat Jan Vigyan Jatha national convener Soumya Dutta has said that the loans borrowed from international banks like the China-based Asian Infrastructure Investment...
Express News Service, VIJAYAWADA: Expressing concern over the unchecked borrowing from different banks and funding agencies across the globe by the TDP Government in the State, experts from National Association of People’s Movements (NAPM)...
