Coverage Archives - Page 52 of 56 - Centre for Financial Accountability

NUSA DUA, Indonesia — Civil society groups have welcomed a move by the International Finance Corporation to transition the financial institutions it invests in away from supporting coal projects — but some say it is too little too late. In an op-ed for Devex on Monday, the head of the World Bank’s p...

Coverage

Article

November 20, 2018

Times of India

Catalytic Financing can Scale Up Clean Energy Market: Report

Today, rooftop solar capacity is 1,200 MW only as against Centre’s target of 40,000 MW by 2022 Nagpur: With financing continuing to be a serious impediment in achieving the country’s clean energy goals, the latest analysis reveals that ‘catalytic financing’ can give India’s clean energy sector, ...

Coverage

Article

November 20, 2018

Frontline

Banks on the Brink

The unprecedented crisis in the Indian banking sector, which has brought banks’ lending operations to a virtual standstill, means that they can do little to help the economy, which is buffeted on multiple fronts. The filing for bankruptcy by Lehman Brothers on September 15, 2008, resulted in a st...

Coverage

Article

November 20, 2018

The Nation

Is the World Bank Group Above the Law?

A fishing community in India challenges the bank’s private-lending arm in the US Supreme Court. The US Supreme Court sits more than 12,000 miles from Tragadi Bandar, the patch of India’s west coast where Budha Ismail Jam has spent most of the past two decades fishing for a living. Jam’s seasonal hom...

Coverage

Article

November 20, 2018

The Asia Times

Banks Need to Follow StanChart’s Lead and End New Coal Finance

By ruling out funding new coal-fired power plants globally, Standard Chartered has sent the message that developing countries such as Vietnam deserve clean air and water. Standard Chartered announced this week that it “will not directly finance any new coal-fired power plant projects, including expa...

Coverage

Article

November 20, 2018

DNA

Job Losses Loom in Three-Bank Merger

The proposed merger of Vijaya Bank, Dena Bank and Bank of Baroda will lead to closure of branches and job losses. This is “inevitable”, say sources, as both Bank of Baroda and Dena Bank branches overlap in Gujarat and Maharashtra. It has 1,858 branches spread out in Gujarat and Maharasht...

Coverage

Article

November 20, 2018

Newsclick.in

Power Sector NPAs: New Report Slams Parliamentary Panel on Energy

The 37th Report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy failed to fix accountability for the NPA crisis in the power sector, while absolving disastrous moves like delicensing. A new report by Delhi-based Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) has criticised the Parliamentary Standing Co...

Coverage

Article

November 20, 2018

Business Today

Parliamentary Panel Failed to Address NPAs in Power Sector? A Delhi Think Tank Believes so

In a critique of the March 2018 report of the Parliamentary standing committee on energy, CFA has stated that the recommendations suggested by the Committee to address the problem of stressed assets in power sector fall short of addressing the problem in an effective manner. Did the Parliamentary pa...

Coverage

Article

November 20, 2018

Times of India

1/4th of Power Plants Burning Coal and Cash, Yet More in Pipeline

Debt-laden and deadly, India’s coal-fired power sector continues to suck out large sums and pump in toxic pollutants. Is the country heading into dark times on the pretext of seeing light? TOI analyses various reports of Central Electricity Authority, environment and power ministries Nagpur: Alread...

Coverage

Article

November 20, 2018

Counterview

“Dangers” of Privatising Public Sector Banks Loom Large

A public statement, released jointly by Soumya Dutta of the All-India Bank Officers’ Confederation, Priya Dharshini of the Centre for Financial Accountability, Madhuresh Kumar of the National Alliance of People’ Movements, and Gautam Mody of the New Trade Union Initiative, has argued that, while the...

Coverage

Article

« Previous

Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) aims to bring in accountability in financial institutions who lend money to development projects, through research and campaigns.

CFA is a project of CACIM (www.cacim.net) and Bank Information Centre Trust.

Categories

Coverage

Civil Society Groups Welcome IFC Coal Plan but Push for More

Catalytic Financing can Scale Up Clean Energy Market: Report

Banks on the Brink

Is the World Bank Group Above the Law?

Banks Need to Follow StanChart’s Lead and End New Coal Finance

Job Losses Loom in Three-Bank Merger

Power Sector NPAs: New Report Slams Parliamentary Panel on Energy

Parliamentary Panel Failed to Address NPAs in Power Sector? A Delhi Think Tank Believes so

1/4th of Power Plants Burning Coal and Cash, Yet More in Pipeline

“Dangers” of Privatising Public Sector Banks Loom Large

Civil Society Groups Welcome IFC Coal Plan but Push for More

Catalytic Financing can Scale Up Clean Energy Market: Report

Banks on the Brink

Is the World Bank Group Above the Law?

Banks Need to Follow StanChart’s Lead and End New Coal Finance

Job Losses Loom in Three-Bank Merger

Power Sector NPAs: New Report Slams Parliamentary Panel on Energy

Parliamentary Panel Failed to Address NPAs in Power Sector? A Delhi Think Tank Believes so

1/4th of Power Plants Burning Coal and Cash, Yet More in Pipeline

“Dangers” of Privatising Public Sector Banks Loom Large

CFA