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The Infra being Pushed is not what the People Demand

Senior activist Ulka Mahajan of Sarvahara Jan Andolan said, “The infrastructure that is being developed is not what peop...

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The Best of Finance Matters: First Anniversary Issue

A year back when we started our weekly newsletter Finance Matters, what we intended was to bring together the news and a...

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Who is benefitting from the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train Project?

The information available in public domain is that JICA is financing the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train Project by lendin...

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Sucheta Dalal on the Growing Crisis in the Indian Banking Sector

Financial analyst and journalist Sucheta Dalal said that the Indian banking system is at the verge of crisis, reeling un...

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Mumbai Resolution on Infrastructure Financing in India

In the political resolution adopted at the end of the People Convention on Infrastructure Financing delegates resolved t...

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PSBs Back Coal, Whereas Private-owned Renewables

A new analysis of energy project lending in India shows that majority of government-owned banks and financial institutio...

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AIIB’s $200m Investment in India would Revive Coal Projects

“AIIB’s proposed $ 200 million deal with India’s $2.1 billion National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) would t...

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Development must not Happen at the Cost of Constitutional Rights

Mumbai, June 23: “The so-called ‘development’ must not come at the cost of constitutional rights,” said pro...

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March 11, 2026

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The Infra being Pushed is not what the People Demand

Senior activist Ulka Mahajan of Sarvahara Jan Andolan said, “The infrastructure that is being developed is not what people demand, but it is what global capital demands. The international financial institutions are promoting corporate interests over that of people and also pushing the states to the ...

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July 6, 2018

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The Best of Finance Matters: First Anniversary Issue

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 the common people. Over the period, the articles and videos that we had carried have ranged from Ease of...

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July 8, 2018

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July 5, 2018

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May 21, 2019

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Who is benefitting from the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train Project?

The information available in public domain is that JICA is financing the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train Project by lending 88 thousand crore rupees at an interest rate of 0.1%. Payback period is 50 years with a moratorium of 15 years. The claim is that loan is free and Japan is behaving like a close ...

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March 11, 2026

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Sucheta Dalal on the Growing Crisis in the Indian Banking Sector

Financial analyst and journalist Sucheta Dalal said that the Indian banking system is at the verge of crisis, reeling under the mounting bad loans, caused by unfettered corporate loans. Referring to government’s announcement in the Parliament that Rs. 2.4 lakh crore bad loans are written off, she sa...

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July 2, 2018

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February 24, 2026

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Mumbai Resolution on Infrastructure Financing in India

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. The Convention also resolved to push for people-centered alter...

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February 24, 2026

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PSBs Back Coal, Whereas Private-owned Renewables

A new analysis of energy project lending in India shows that majority of government-owned banks and financial institutions continued to fund coal projects in 2017. The same analysis also reveals private financial companies are comparatively investing more in renewable energy (RE) projects compared t...

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February 24, 2026

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AIIB’s $200m Investment in India would Revive Coal Projects

“AIIB’s proposed $ 200 million deal with India’s $2.1 billion National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) would threaten to revive a host of stalled projects in the country potentially including coal, power, petroleum, railways and roads – many of which are currently shelved because of high s...

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June 24, 2018

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Development must not Happen at the Cost of Constitutional Rights

Mumbai, June 23: “The so-called ‘development’ must not come at the cost of constitutional rights,” said prominent activist and Goldman Environment Awardee Prafulla Samantra at the press conference, which was organised on the last day of the three-day Peoples’ Convention on Infrastructur...

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