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Who Pays When the Exam Fails?

Image credits: Arjun Unnikrishnan/Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA)- Student protest, Jantar Mantar. Dharmendra ...

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Banking Correspondents: The Real Architects of India’s Financial Inclusion Revolution

Financial inclusion has been one of the most significant socio-economic transformations witnessed in India over the last...

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Reconsideration of Deposit Insurance Policy and Governance Issues in the Banking Sector

Proposed changes in deposit insurance are set to reshape how banks contribute to the system that protects its depositors...

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Report on the Round Table and Workshop: Holding Financial Institutions to Account

The round table on “Financial Accountability: Reclaiming Oversight of Credit and Ethical Investment” and the subsequ...

Finance General Indian Economy Workshops

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State of Finance in India Report 2024-25

This edition of the State of Finance in India report has India’s digital economy and its impact as its special...

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Indian Banking Paradox: Accounting Profit Vs Social Profit

We are in the midst of major changing times in recent history; internationally, domestically in general and the Indian b...

Debt Crisis & NBFCs Finance General Indian Economy

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Merger of Banks, Appointment of MDs from Private Sector and Privatisation of Banks

The Finance Minister has again started talking about the merger of 2–3 big banks to compete in the global market, and ne...

Finance General Random Reflections

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Micro Loans Are Driving an Already Forsaken Population Further Into Distress

The people for whom such micro-credits become a lifeline are those who are not considered credit worthy by the formal ba...

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Mind the gap: It is time to close the gap in measuring inequality

A panel discussion at the Golden Jubilee Conference of CESP, JNU While inequality has been on the rise globally since th...

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Just taxation: An infographic

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September 16, 2026

Haripriya B Harshan

Image credits: Arjun Unnikrishnan/Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA)- Student protest, Jantar Mantar. Dharmendra Pradhan resigned as Union Education Minister on July 25, ending 36 days of protests led by the Cockroach Janta Party, All India Students Association (AISA) and other student organi...

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September 16, 2026

Devidas Tuljapurakar

Banking Correspondents: The Real Architects of India’s Financial Inclusion Revolution

Financial inclusion has been one of the most significant socio-economic transformations witnessed in India over the last two decades. There was a time when banking services were largely confined to cities and towns, while millions of people living in rural and remote areas remained outside the forma...

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September 16, 2026

Devidas Tuljapurakar

Reconsideration of Deposit Insurance Policy and Governance Issues in the Banking Sector

Proposed changes in deposit insurance are set to reshape how banks contribute to the system that protects its depositors. With the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC) introducing a new risk-based premium framework to come into force from April, where banks pay deposit insuranc...

Bank Charges Finance General Indian Economy

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September 16, 2026

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Report on the Round Table and Workshop: Holding Financial Institutions to Account

The round table on “Financial Accountability: Reclaiming Oversight of Credit and Ethical Investment” and the subsequent workshop on pathways towards transparency of project investments” were organised by the Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) as part of the two-day consultation titled “St...

Finance General Indian Economy Workshops

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September 26, 2026

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State of Finance in India Report 2024-25

This edition of the State of Finance in India report has India’s digital economy and its impact as its special theme. The term ‘infrastructure’ conjures up images of large projects made of steel and concrete, to provide services varying from those offered by dams and power plants to those ...

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November 12, 2025

Sanjeev Chandorkar

Indian Banking Paradox: Accounting Profit Vs Social Profit

We are in the midst of major changing times in recent history; internationally, domestically in general and the Indian banking system in particular. First time after independence, Indian banks are being sold to foreign capital, Lakshmi Vilas to DBS and Yes Bank to Sumitomo. IDBI bank is next. Few pu...

Debt Crisis & NBFCs Finance General Indian Economy

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November 10, 2025

Thomas Franco

Merger of Banks, Appointment of MDs from Private Sector and Privatisation of Banks

The Finance Minister has again started talking about the merger of 2–3 big banks to compete in the global market, and newspapers say that the government is considering the appointment of Managing Directors in public banks from the private sector. This will destroy Public Sector Banks. Privatisation ...

Finance General Random Reflections

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August 5, 2026

Amitanshu Verma, Anirban Bhattacharya and Haripriya B Harshan

Micro Loans Are Driving an Already Forsaken Population Further Into Distress

The people for whom such micro-credits become a lifeline are those who are not considered credit worthy by the formal banking system. ‘These are the people for whom such micro-credits become a lifeline as they are not considered credit worthy by the formal banking system.’ Photo: Anirba...

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December 19, 2023

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Mind the gap: It is time to close the gap in measuring inequality

A panel discussion at the Golden Jubilee Conference of CESP, JNU While inequality has been on the rise globally since the 80s, the financial crisis of the late 2000s, the Wall Street movement, and the rage in the streets of Chile gave it a popular expression and also renewed academic attention. The ...

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September 11, 2023

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Just taxation: An infographic

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Who Pays When the Exam Fails?

Banking Correspondents: The Real Architects of India’s Financial Inclusion Revolution

Reconsideration of Deposit Insurance Policy and Governance Issues in the Banking Sector

Report on the Round Table and Workshop: Holding Financial Institutions to Account

State of Finance in India Report 2024-25

Indian Banking Paradox: Accounting Profit Vs Social Profit

Merger of Banks, Appointment of MDs from Private Sector and Privatisation of Banks

Micro Loans Are Driving an Already Forsaken Population Further Into Distress

Mind the gap: It is time to close the gap in measuring inequality

Just taxation: An infographic

Who Pays When the Exam Fails?

Banking Correspondents: The Real Architects of India’s Financial Inclusion Revolution

Reconsideration of Deposit Insurance Policy and Governance Issues in the Banking Sector

Report on the Round Table and Workshop: Holding Financial Institutions to Account

State of Finance in India Report 2024-25

Indian Banking Paradox: Accounting Profit Vs Social Profit

Merger of Banks, Appointment of MDs from Private Sector and Privatisation of Banks

Micro Loans Are Driving an Already Forsaken Population Further Into Distress

Mind the gap: It is time to close the gap in measuring inequality

Just taxation: An infographic

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