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Infrastructure Finance in India and the Public Private Partnerships

It is being emphasised quite often that the infrastructure sector is a crucial driver for the Indian economy. The sector...

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Cut Out Taking Those Shortcuts

This February, in a landmark decision, the US Supreme Court ruled that financial institutions like the World Bank’s Inte...

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Humanity Absent from World’s most Acclaimed Development Report

The World Development Report (WDR) is the World Bank’s development research and policy review report published annually....

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Press Release: Historic Supreme Court Win: WB Group Is Not Above The Law

For Immediate Release February 27, 2019 New Delhi: In a historic 7-1 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in Jam ...

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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, ...

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Not Just President, WB Needs New Perspective on Development

The resignation of the World Bank President Jim Yong Kim was an unexpected development given the fact that he had three ...

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Jim Yong Kim’s Mixed Messages to the World Bank, and the World

Johannesburg – World Bank president Jim Kim is an ex-leftist who claims that in the mid-1990s he wanted to shut down the...

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World Bank: Jim Yong Kim and beyond

Here’s a lowdown on what good and bad came out of Kim’s reign as the bank’s president and what seems to be the future of...

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Suing the World Bank Group to save its mission

In 2015, farmers and fishworkers from rural India sued the World Bank Group in Washington, D.C., over impacts from a dis...

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An exclusionary benchmark

Doing business report isn’t about economic milieu; it’s about lax regulations. This refers to your editorial, ‘Serious b...

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May 21, 2019

Gaurav Dwivedi

Infrastructure Finance in India and the Public Private Partnerships

It is being emphasised quite often that the infrastructure sector is a crucial driver for the Indian economy. The sector would be responsible for propelling India’s overall development and enjoys intense focus from the Government for initiating policies that would ensure time-bound creation of world...

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June 20, 2019

The Economic Times

Cut Out Taking Those Shortcuts

This February, in a landmark decision, the US Supreme Court ruled that financial institutions like the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) are not immune from the law of land, and can be held accountable for their decisions across the world. This was the first time ever a case chall...

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March 9, 2019

Tani Alex

Humanity Absent from World’s most Acclaimed Development Report

The World Development Report (WDR) is the World Bank’s development research and policy review report published annually. Started by IBRD since 1978, this report is intended to provide deep and extensive analysis on one particular aspect of economic development, every year. The solutions and policy m...

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March 2, 2019

CFA Admin

Press Release: Historic Supreme Court Win: WB Group Is Not Above The Law

For Immediate Release February 27, 2019 New Delhi: In a historic 7-1 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in Jam v. IFC that international organizations like the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank Group do not enjoy absolute immunity. The Court’s decision marks a defining mom...

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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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January 22, 2019

Counterview

Not Just President, WB Needs New Perspective on Development

The resignation of the World Bank President Jim Yong Kim was an unexpected development given the fact that he had three more years to complete his tenure. Resignations at such a high level after bidding for a second term is unusual which prompts people to think what would have led to the act itself....

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January 17, 2019

Patrick Bond

Jim Yong Kim’s Mixed Messages to the World Bank, and the World

Johannesburg – World Bank president Jim Kim is an ex-leftist who claims that in the mid-1990s he wanted to shut down the Bank. At the time, it was an entirely valid, realistic goal of the 50 Years is Enough! Campaign and especially the World Bank Bonds Boycott. Kim’s co-edited Dying for Growth (2000...

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January 11, 2019

Down To Earth

World Bank: Jim Yong Kim and beyond

Here’s a lowdown on what good and bad came out of Kim’s reign as the bank’s president and what seems to be the future of the coveted title Jim Yong Kim resigned from the presidency of the World Bank on January 7, 2019. The world of development finance, multilateral institutions, and international fi...

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November 20, 2018

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Suing the World Bank Group to save its mission

In 2015, farmers and fishworkers from rural India sued the World Bank Group in Washington, D.C., over impacts from a disastrous coal-fired power plant project that they said destroyed their livelihoods and damaged their health. Last week, their lawsuit made it to the U.S. Supreme Court. While the Wo...

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November 20, 2018

The Indian Express

An exclusionary benchmark

Doing business report isn’t about economic milieu; it’s about lax regulations. This refers to your editorial, ‘Serious business’ (IE, November 2). It notes the improvement in India’s ranking, but also strikes a cautious note in several aspects. It points out that the key to making business easy is r...

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Infrastructure Finance in India and the Public Private Partnerships

Cut Out Taking Those Shortcuts

Humanity Absent from World’s most Acclaimed Development Report

Press Release: Historic Supreme Court Win: WB Group Is Not Above The Law

ADB was the Biggest Lender to India in 2018

Not Just President, WB Needs New Perspective on Development

Jim Yong Kim’s Mixed Messages to the World Bank, and the World

World Bank: Jim Yong Kim and beyond

Suing the World Bank Group to save its mission

An exclusionary benchmark

Infrastructure Finance in India and the Public Private Partnerships

Cut Out Taking Those Shortcuts

Humanity Absent from World’s most Acclaimed Development Report

Press Release: Historic Supreme Court Win: WB Group Is Not Above The Law

ADB was the Biggest Lender to India in 2018

Not Just President, WB Needs New Perspective on Development

Jim Yong Kim’s Mixed Messages to the World Bank, and the World

World Bank: Jim Yong Kim and beyond

Suing the World Bank Group to save its mission

An exclusionary benchmark