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बुकलेट: तीसरे चरण के बाद दिल्ली मेट्रो का वित्तीय विश्लेषण
कैंब्रिज के अर्थशास्त्री, हा-जून चांग का मानना है कि ‘अर्थशास्त्र का 95 प्रतिशत सिर्फ सामान्य समझ है, जिसे गणित और भारी-...
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July 14, 2021
Gaurav Dwivedi
Infrastructure Projects in India: The Landscape of Financiers
This mapping document looks at infrastructure sector in India, its basic concepts, estimates by the Government of India, the World Bank (WB), Asian Development Bank (ADB), International Finance Corporation (IFC), Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and others regarding the funds require...
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February 13, 2026
Gaurav Dwivedi
Booklet: Smart Cities Mission in India: Footprints of IFIs
This booklet is a first in a series that looks to provide an overview of the smart cities at a conceptual level, smart cities mission in India, development of smart cities globally, the role of International Financial Institutions (IFIs) and bilateral agencies in promoting smart city projects in var...
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April 27, 2019
Ankit Agrawal
Over 50 Organisations From The World Ask Japan To Stop Funding Coal
In full-page advertisements in the Financial Times and Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest daily newspaper, 50 reputed organisations, working on environment and accountability related issues, from across the world have appealed to Shinzo Abe to stop funding coal. The advertisements, endorsed by W...
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March 1, 2019
Ankit Agrawal
ADB was the Biggest Lender to India in 2018
As per the Early Warning System, which collects and verify information about the proposed and existing projects, India, in 2018, had 112 active or proposed projects funded by Development Finance Institutions (DFIs). These institutions included Asian Development Bank (ADB); Asian Infrastructure Inves...
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May 21, 2019
Nishant
बुकलेट: तीसरे चरण के बाद दिल्ली मेट्रो का वित्तीय विश्लेषण
कैंब्रिज के अर्थशास्त्री, हा-जून चांग का मानना है कि ‘अर्थशास्त्र का 95 प्रतिशत सिर्फ सामान्य समझ है, जिसे गणित और भारी-भरकम शब्दावली का प्रयोग करके मुश्किल बनाया जाता है।’ इससे हम समझ सकते हैं कि लोग वित्त से जुड़े मामलों से दूर क्यों रहते हैं। सरकारें नयी परियोजनाओं, योजनाओं और कार्यक्रमों की घोषण...
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May 21, 2019
CFA Admin
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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June 24, 2018
CFA Admin
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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February 24, 2026
Nishant
Booklet: Financial Analysis of Delhi Metro after Phase-III
Ha-Joon Chang, the Cambridge economist, holds that ‘95% of economics is common sense, made to look difficult, with the use of jargons and mathematics’. That may explain why common people engage less with matters of finance. Governments announce new projects, schemes and programs involving large spen...
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November 20, 2018
The New Indian Express
‘Unchecked borrowing to put Andhra Pradesh in debt trap’
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) have warned that it will put AP in a debt trap. Speaking to...
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May 13, 2018
Rajesh Kumar
The Trends in Hydro Power Financing in India
There has been a worldwide growth in hydropower development, with 31.5 GW new capacity installed in 2016. This figure includes 6.4 GW of pumped storage – nearly double the previous year – while there is a further 20 GW of pumped storage under construction globally. This growth is indicative of impen...
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