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IMF Violates International Human Rights Laws: UN Human Rights Experts

Several UN human rights experts last month wrote an open letter to the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fun...

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Ease of doing business or Ease of diluting labour safety?

On November 1st, 2017 India witnessed one of the largest boiler accidents in recent times. An NTPC plant originally supp...

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The Cost of Ease of Doing Business Ranking

What is diluted, amended, and narrowed down for making it easy for businesses is eroding of the rights of people The ‘Ea...

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Is IFI influence on economy back with a vengeance?

There was jubilation in the government as the Ease of Doing Business ranked India in the 100th spot, 30 points ahead fro...

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CSOs approach WB on Amaravati Capital City Project

For immediate release Civil Society Organisations approach World Bank’s Board on the irregularities in Amaravati ...

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Letter to the WB on Amaravati Case of Inspection Panel

November 27, 2017 To The Executive Directors, The World Bank Washington DC Dear Executive Directors, We, t...

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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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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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IMF and World Bank: Marching to a G20 Tune?

This year, the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors’ Meeting on October 12-13 overlapped with the IMF-World ...

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January 19, 2018

Ankit Agrawal

IMF Violates International Human Rights Laws: UN Human Rights Experts

Several UN human rights experts last month wrote an open letter to the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund to express their dismay about the general approach of the IMF to social security reforms that has sometimes put fiscal objectives above the objective of ensuring respect for the ...

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August 12, 2019

Maju Varghese

Ease of doing business or Ease of diluting labour safety?

On November 1st, 2017 India witnessed one of the largest boiler accidents in recent times. An NTPC plant originally supported by Asian Development Bank met with an accident in their newly built unit. As per reports, about 42 people died in the accident but workers believed there would be more. About...

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August 12, 2019

Governance Now

The Cost of Ease of Doing Business Ranking

What is diluted, amended, and narrowed down for making it easy for businesses is eroding of the rights of people The ‘Ease of Doing Business’ report of the World Bank could not have come at a better time for the NDA government. The first anniversary of demonetisation, where everything from planning ...

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January 22, 2018

Maju Varghese

Is IFI influence on economy back with a vengeance?

There was jubilation in the government as the Ease of Doing Business ranked India in the 100th spot, 30 points ahead from last year which is supposed to be the biggest jump by any country in the history of doing business report. Mr Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India welcomed the jump and gave th...

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May 31, 2018

CFA Admin

CSOs approach WB on Amaravati Capital City Project

For immediate release Civil Society Organisations approach World Bank’s Board on the irregularities in Amaravati Capital City Project November 28, 2017, New Delhi: Social Activist Medha Patkar, Former Power Secretary Dr. EAS Sarma, Goldman Prize awardee Prafulla Samanthra, Retired Scientist f...

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November 27, 2017

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Letter to the WB on Amaravati Case of Inspection Panel

November 27, 2017 To The Executive Directors, The World Bank Washington DC Dear Executive Directors, We, the representatives of people’s movements, civil society organisations, and concerned citizens, write to the Board of World Bank Group to draw your urgent attention to a few critica...

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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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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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February 14, 2023

Nancy Alexander

IMF and World Bank: Marching to a G20 Tune?

This year, the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors’ Meeting on October 12-13 overlapped with the IMF-World Bank annual meeting on October 13-15 in Washington, DC. As of December 1, 2017, Argentina becomes G20 President with the past and future Presidents (Germany and Japan, respectively...

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IMF Violates International Human Rights Laws: UN Human Rights Experts

Ease of doing business or Ease of diluting labour safety?

The Cost of Ease of Doing Business Ranking

Is IFI influence on economy back with a vengeance?

CSOs approach WB on Amaravati Capital City Project

Letter to the WB on Amaravati Case of Inspection Panel

World Bank Guidance Leaves Rights Loopholes

World Bank Reviewing Inspection Panel’s Mandate

The Panama and Paradise Papers Exposes the Elites

IMF and World Bank: Marching to a G20 Tune?

IMF Violates International Human Rights Laws: UN Human Rights Experts

Ease of doing business or Ease of diluting labour safety?

The Cost of Ease of Doing Business Ranking

Is IFI influence on economy back with a vengeance?

CSOs approach WB on Amaravati Capital City Project

Letter to the WB on Amaravati Case of Inspection Panel

World Bank Guidance Leaves Rights Loopholes

World Bank Reviewing Inspection Panel’s Mandate

The Panama and Paradise Papers Exposes the Elites

IMF and World Bank: Marching to a G20 Tune?

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