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World Bank Guidance Leaves Rights Loopholes

The World Bank has spent the past four years overhauling the rules it applies to prevent or mitigate social and environm...

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Is Universal Basic Income the next ‘big surprise’?

In the times of big surprises in the economic and political decisions of the country, is Universal Basic Income (UBI) th...

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World Bank Reviewing Inspection Panel’s Mandate

A recent article on the much-acclaimed accountability mechanism of World Bank, the Inspection Panel (IP), indicates that...

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The Panama and Paradise Papers Exposes the Elites

In a paper that Desmond Fernandes and I wrote in the late 1990s, entitled “Deep Politics, Liberalisation and Corruption:...

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Forget lessons from the past, Arun Jaitley’s bank recapitalisation even buried a July audit report

Hailed as a “big-bang move” by bankers, the government’s plan to recapitalise public sector banks with Rs 2.1 lakh crore...

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Debunking World Bank’s argument on large-scale infrastructure investment

World Bank’s Chief Economist Ejaz Ghani recently advocated for the large-scale infrastructure investment mentioning that...

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Financial Analysis of the Blue Economy, Especially Sagarmala Project

Financial Analysis of the Blue Economy: Sagarmala’s Case in Point by Dr Himanshu Damle of Public Finance Public Accounta...

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Money Trail of NTPC owned Rampal Power Project

October 14, 2017, New Delhi: Some of the biggest players in global finance are quietly backing the world’s most dangerou...

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Communities affected by Tata Mundra will ask U.S. Supreme Court to hear case against IFC challenging “absolute immunity”

September 27, 2017, Mundra, Gujarat: Fishing communities and farmers affected by Tata Mundra said on Friday that they wo...

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Indian fishing communities will ask U.S. Supreme Court to hear case against World Bank Group challenging “absolute immunity”

Indian fishing communities will ask U.S. Supreme Court to hear case against World Bank Group challenging “absolute immun...

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November 19, 2017

Amelia Neumayer

World Bank Guidance Leaves Rights Loopholes

The World Bank has spent the past four years overhauling the rules it applies to prevent or mitigate social and environmental harm from the development projects it finances. But human rights are all but absent in its new rules. These rules, the Environmental and Social Framework, do not acknowledge ...

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November 20, 2017

Madhavi Bansal

Is Universal Basic Income the next ‘big surprise’?

In the times of big surprises in the economic and political decisions of the country, is Universal Basic Income (UBI) the next big surprise? A series of statements by key policymakers of late seem to be indicating that. In the Economic Survey 2016-17, the Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) Arvind Subraman...

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August 12, 2019

Tani Alex

World Bank Reviewing Inspection Panel’s Mandate

A recent article on the much-acclaimed accountability mechanism of World Bank, the Inspection Panel (IP), indicates that all is not well with it and it could get its wings clipped. The discussion on the review of the Panel happened at the Bank’s Spring Annual meetings in Washington during the second...

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January 22, 2018

Leo Saldanha

The Panama and Paradise Papers Exposes the Elites

In a paper that Desmond Fernandes and I wrote in the late 1990s, entitled “Deep Politics, Liberalisation and Corruption: The Mangalore Power Company Controversy”[i], a paper that exhaustively discussed implications to India due to liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation of the economy, we pr...

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November 20, 2018

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Forget lessons from the past, Arun Jaitley’s bank recapitalisation even buried a July audit report

Hailed as a “big-bang move” by bankers, the government’s plan to recapitalise public sector banks with Rs 2.1 lakh crores is deemed to hold magical powers that will help turn around their financial situations. The announcement of the plan by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on October 24 was a reiterat...

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December 4, 2017

Leo Saldanha

Debunking World Bank’s argument on large-scale infrastructure investment

World Bank’s Chief Economist Ejaz Ghani recently advocated for the large-scale infrastructure investment mentioning that Golden Quadrilateral project has given a massive boost to manufacturing activity and productivity in districts located within 10km of the network and improved allocative efficienc...

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February 18, 2026

Himanshu Damle

Financial Analysis of the Blue Economy, Especially Sagarmala Project

Financial Analysis of the Blue Economy: Sagarmala’s Case in Point by Dr Himanshu Damle of Public Finance Public Accountability Collective, New Delhi and could be reached at himanshudamle@pfpac.net The article was originally published here in an abridged form. Click here to view ...

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November 21, 2017

CFA Admin

Money Trail of NTPC owned Rampal Power Project

October 14, 2017, New Delhi: Some of the biggest players in global finance are quietly backing the world’s most dangerous coal plant, according to an international investigative report released earlier this week. The report titled Time to Come Clean: How International Investors Can Stop the World’s ...

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December 6, 2017

CFA Admin

Communities affected by Tata Mundra will ask U.S. Supreme Court to hear case against IFC challenging “absolute immunity”

September 27, 2017, Mundra, Gujarat: Fishing communities and farmers affected by Tata Mundra said on Friday that they would approach the U.S. Supreme Court to review the decision of U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which upheld the entitlement of the World Bank Group to “...

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September 30, 2017

CFA Admin

Indian fishing communities will ask U.S. Supreme Court to hear case against World Bank Group challenging “absolute immunity”

Indian fishing communities will ask U.S. Supreme Court to hear case against World Bank Group challenging “absolute immunity” Contact: Gillian Wilson +1 (202) 466 5188 x114 gillian@earthrights.org September 27, 2017, Washington, D.C. Indian fishing communities and farmers represented by EarthRights I...

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World Bank Guidance Leaves Rights Loopholes

Is Universal Basic Income the next ‘big surprise’?

World Bank Reviewing Inspection Panel’s Mandate

The Panama and Paradise Papers Exposes the Elites

Forget lessons from the past, Arun Jaitley’s bank recapitalisation even buried a July audit report

Debunking World Bank’s argument on large-scale infrastructure investment

Financial Analysis of the Blue Economy, Especially Sagarmala Project

Money Trail of NTPC owned Rampal Power Project

Communities affected by Tata Mundra will ask U.S. Supreme Court to hear case against IFC challenging “absolute immunity”

Indian fishing communities will ask U.S. Supreme Court to hear case against World Bank Group challenging “absolute immunity”

World Bank Guidance Leaves Rights Loopholes

Is Universal Basic Income the next ‘big surprise’?

World Bank Reviewing Inspection Panel’s Mandate

The Panama and Paradise Papers Exposes the Elites

Forget lessons from the past, Arun Jaitley’s bank recapitalisation even buried a July audit report

Debunking World Bank’s argument on large-scale infrastructure investment

Financial Analysis of the Blue Economy, Especially Sagarmala Project

Money Trail of NTPC owned Rampal Power Project

Communities affected by Tata Mundra will ask U.S. Supreme Court to hear case against IFC challenging “absolute immunity”

Indian fishing communities will ask U.S. Supreme Court to hear case against World Bank Group challenging “absolute immunity”