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India’s G-20 Presidency, Coronavirus and India and others: Snippets from the World of International Finance

1. Union Budget allocation for preparations of India’s G-20 presidency The Finance Minister of India announced an al...

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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 I...

Asian Development Bank Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank External Commercial Agreements Infrastructure Finance New Development Bank Publications World Bank

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The Invisible hand of International Financial Institutions (IFIs)

(How Public Banks are going to be privatised and land, labor reforms are being gradually pushed in the country) In a cap...

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Snippets from the World of International Finance

Government prepares for more reforms to ensure India comes in the top 50 in ease of doing business rankings India curre...

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AIIB Water Sector Strategy, September 2019 – Some observations

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) came out with a draft Water Sector Strategy in September 2019. The water...

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Ease of Doing Business – what does it conceal?

India is now a poster boy for the World Bank’s much-criticised Doing Business Report (DBR), and its associated country r...

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Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project: A decade of disemPOWERing communities

Almost a decade after the construction for the Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project and eight years since the operations...

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Snippets from the World of International Finance

IFC’s Opportunistic $ 24.7 trillion Global Green Investment Plan Adding to the global narrative on low-carbon investment...

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Global Mass Protests: Why the Ubiquitous Outrage?

To quote the Political Science professor, Robert O’Brien, at the McMaster University in Hamilton, “the world is at a hig...

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MUTP 3, Assam T&D – New Projects from AIIB

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) approved a lending for Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP) Phase 3 for...

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February 24, 2020

Tani Alex

India’s G-20 Presidency, Coronavirus and India and others: Snippets from the World of International Finance

1. Union Budget allocation for preparations of India’s G-20 presidency The Finance Minister of India announced an allocation of Rs.100 crore from the Union Budget, for the initial preparations for hosting the G-20 presidency meeting in 2022. It is also the 75th year of Independence for India. Th...

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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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January 15, 2020

Maju Varghese

The Invisible hand of International Financial Institutions (IFIs)

(How Public Banks are going to be privatised and land, labor reforms are being gradually pushed in the country) In a capitalist system, it is said that the market correct itself through the invisible hands of supply and demand. This hand however is partly visible when we look through at Internationa...

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January 23, 2020

Tani Alex

Snippets from the World of International Finance

Government prepares for more reforms to ensure India comes in the top 50 in ease of doing business rankings India currently occupies 63rd position in the rankings of the World Bank in doing business. Moving ahead 14 positions from 2018, it has been ranked among the top ten improvers in the last thr...

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December 25, 2019

Gaurav Dwivedi

AIIB Water Sector Strategy, September 2019 – Some observations

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) came out with a draft Water Sector Strategy in September 2019. The water sector analysis was developed based on the information in the water sector analysis brought out by the bank in October 2019. Following are some quick observations based on the str...

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

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December 17, 2019

Maju Varghese

Ease of Doing Business – what does it conceal?

India is now a poster boy for the World Bank’s much-criticised Doing Business Report (DBR), and its associated country rankings index (EODB) (see Observer Winter 2018). The country has drastically improved its place in the EODB index, rising from the 142nd position in 2014 to 63rd in 2019, a 79-plac...

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December 11, 2019

Anuradha Munshi

Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project: A decade of disemPOWERing communities

Almost a decade after the construction for the Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project and eight years since the operations of the project started, a revisit to Mundra tells the story of the destruction of livelihoods, environment and disempowered communities. The project was envisaged as India’s first...

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December 8, 2019

Tani Alex

Snippets from the World of International Finance

IFC’s Opportunistic $ 24.7 trillion Global Green Investment Plan Adding to the global narrative on low-carbon investments, World Bank Groups’ private lending arm International Finance Corporation’s recent report – Green Buildings: A Finance and Policy Blueprint for Emerging Markets – say...

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November 24, 2019

Aswathi Nair

Global Mass Protests: Why the Ubiquitous Outrage?

To quote the Political Science professor, Robert O’Brien, at the McMaster University in Hamilton, “the world is at a high level of protest right now”. He further adds that he can witness “a dissatisfaction of both political and economic arrangements governing people and in different parts of the wor...

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November 17, 2019

CFA Admin

MUTP 3, Assam T&D – New Projects from AIIB

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) approved a lending for Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP) Phase 3 for $500 mn. According to a release from AIIB, “A loan of USD500 million granted to the government of India is expected to fast-track work on Mumbai’s suburban railway network, improv...

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International Finance

India’s G-20 Presidency, Coronavirus and India and others: Snippets from the World of International Finance

Infrastructure Projects in India: The Landscape of Financiers

The Invisible hand of International Financial Institutions (IFIs)

Snippets from the World of International Finance

AIIB Water Sector Strategy, September 2019 – Some observations

Ease of Doing Business – what does it conceal?

Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project: A decade of disemPOWERing communities

Snippets from the World of International Finance

Global Mass Protests: Why the Ubiquitous Outrage?

MUTP 3, Assam T&D – New Projects from AIIB

India’s G-20 Presidency, Coronavirus and India and others: Snippets from the World of International Finance

Infrastructure Projects in India: The Landscape of Financiers

The Invisible hand of International Financial Institutions (IFIs)

Snippets from the World of International Finance

AIIB Water Sector Strategy, September 2019 – Some observations

Ease of Doing Business – what does it conceal?

Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project: A decade of disemPOWERing communities

Snippets from the World of International Finance

Global Mass Protests: Why the Ubiquitous Outrage?

MUTP 3, Assam T&D – New Projects from AIIB

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