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The Ostrich Budget: An Analysis of the Union Budget 2025-26

A reading of the budget and the Economic Survey is a crucial exercise to understand the direction that the economy is ta...

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Economic Survey 2025: Development for Whom? | Finance Matters, 31 January 2025 | Editorial

The Economic Survey 2025 tabled by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, projects a 6.3 – 6.8% growth rate for FY ...

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The Budget India Needs

A People’s Blueprint for the 2025-26 Budget! At the threshold of the 2025 budget, the vitals of the economy are causing ...

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Budget 2025: Income Tax & the Growing Inequality Gap | Finance Matters, 25 January 2025 | Editorial

The Union Budget is only a few days away and speculations that the Income Tax will be reduced is high. As the speculatio...

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Response to the Cost and Benefit Analysis of the Asian Development Bank Accountability Mechanism by the Asian Development Bank

At the very outset, we would like to appreciate ADB in doing this analysis and sharing the information publicly. The c...

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Another Budget, Another Opportunity | Finance Matters, 10 January 2025 | Editorial

We are just around the corner for another budget. The Finance Minister has been consulting regular industry leaders, bus...

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Finance Matters | 10 January 2025

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Delhi Residents Oppose the Proposed Bawana Waste-to-Energy Plant

Press release 16 January 2025 | New Delhi: The People’s Alliance for Waste Accountability and Delhi residents have exp...

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Renewable energy lending up by 60% last year

Companies engaged in coal power expansion received US$ 2 billion in underwriting services from US based financial instit...

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World Bank’s approval of Amaravati project is disregard of Indian judiciary and disrespectful of people & their concerns.

Press Release New Delhi | December 23, 2024 The Working Group on International Financial Institutions (WgonIFIs) is di...

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September 24, 2026

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The Ostrich Budget: An Analysis of the Union Budget 2025-26

A reading of the budget and the Economic Survey is a crucial exercise to understand the direction that the economy is taking. It gives a sense of how responsive is a government to the actual challenges in the economy and the real needs of the people. The current budget as such was crucial as it come...

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February 18, 2025

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Economic Survey 2025: Development for Whom? | Finance Matters, 31 January 2025 | Editorial

The Economic Survey 2025 tabled by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, projects a 6.3 – 6.8% growth rate for FY 26, ahead of the Union Budget 2025-26. But, what does it mean to the common citizens like us? While the survey acclaims as a means for development and inclusion, a closer look reve...

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February 21, 2025

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The Budget India Needs

A People’s Blueprint for the 2025-26 Budget! At the threshold of the 2025 budget, the vitals of the economy are causing alarm to those who are bothered to look beyond the hyperbole and manufactured optimism. One can observe a declining credit growth (loan-to-deposit ratio is at 80%). There has been ...

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January 26, 2025

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Budget 2025: Income Tax & the Growing Inequality Gap | Finance Matters, 25 January 2025 | Editorial

The Union Budget is only a few days away and speculations that the Income Tax will be reduced is high. As the speculations are heating up, just a few days back Oxfam released the Wealth Inequality Report 2024 – Takers, not Makers – bringing out some startling findings. The report says &#...

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January 25, 2025

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Response to the Cost and Benefit Analysis of the Asian Development Bank Accountability Mechanism by the Asian Development Bank

At the very outset, we would like to appreciate ADB in doing this analysis and sharing the information publicly. The costs We are astonished by the fact that $5 mn (2023 prices) was spent on the project since the complaint was filed with CRP until it was closed prematurely in 2018. The expenses l...

Asian Development Bank General International Finance Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Project

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February 18, 2025

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Another Budget, Another Opportunity | Finance Matters, 10 January 2025 | Editorial

We are just around the corner for another budget. The Finance Minister has been consulting regular industry leaders, business associations, and occasional trade unions in preparation for the budget. While memes around the falling Rupee are aplenty, inaugurations of trains and tunnels continue to tak...

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September 15, 2026

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Finance Matters | 10 January 2025

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February 27, 2025

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Delhi Residents Oppose the Proposed Bawana Waste-to-Energy Plant

Press release 16 January 2025 | New Delhi: The People’s Alliance for Waste Accountability and Delhi residents have expressed deep disappointment over the poorly managed public hearing held on December 27, 2024, to discuss the proposed Waste-to-Energy (WTE) plant in Bawana. The hearing, organized ...

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January 1, 2025

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Renewable energy lending up by 60% last year

Companies engaged in coal power expansion received US$ 2 billion in underwriting services from US based financial institute New Delhi, December 19, 2024: The Centre for Financial Accountability released its seventh annual Coal vs Renewables Investment report today. The report, which traditionally lo...

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December 23, 2024

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World Bank’s approval of Amaravati project is disregard of Indian judiciary and disrespectful of people & their concerns.

Press Release New Delhi | December 23, 2024 The Working Group on International Financial Institutions (WgonIFIs) is disappointed with the recent decision of the World Bank Board of Directors to approve $800 million for the Amaravati Capital City project, despite the Bank’s own Inspection Panel cal...

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