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Special Report: The Dark Side of NTPC

This exclusive report documents the violations caused by the NTPC’s power plants on various fronts over the past decade ...

Energy Publications

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Report: History RePPPeated: How PPPs are Failing

Public-Private Partnerships — or PPPs — are increasingly being promoted as a way to finance development projects. This r...

Infrastructure Finance Publications

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Update: Tata Mundra, a Story of Violations, Non-Compliance & Impunity

Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project India is part of an ambitious plan, which saw the building of several coal-based th...

Energy International Finance Institutions Publications Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Project World Bank

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Symposium on India’s Engagements and Experiences with Accountability Mechanisms of MDBs: A Report

This year, the Inspection Panel, the accountability mechanism of the World Bank, is completing 25 years. The World Bank’...

Publications

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A Critique of Report on ‘Stressed/Non-Performing Assets in Electricity Sector’

A new report has criticised the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy for failing to fix responsibility on who shou...

Energy Publications

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Case Study: India’s Experience with the IAMs

25 years of Inspection Panel has a special significance for India, having played a key role in its formation. As in t...

Publications

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Case Study: Why are the Farmers of a Power-Surplus State Like Tamil Nadu Resisiting High Tension Lines and Towers?

The Transmission System Strengthening Project is a project to expand the interstate transmission network in western and ...

Asian Development Bank Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Energy International Finance Publications

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Briefing Paper: An Indian Perspective on NDB & AIIB

The Asian region has experienced the emergence of new MDBs over last few years. For many years, the Asian Development Ba...

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank International Finance New Development Bank Publications

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The Best of Finance Matters: First Anniversary Issue

A year back when we started our weekly newsletter Finance Matters, what we intended was to bring together the news and a...

Publications

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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 u...

External Commercial Agreements Finance Infrastructure Finance International Finance International Finance Institutions Publications

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February 18, 2019

Nishank

Special Report: The Dark Side of NTPC

This exclusive report documents the violations caused by the NTPC’s power plants on various fronts over the past decade — forceful land acquisition, environmental damage caused to communities, toxic pollution due to large-scale coal-fired power plants, while compromising on labour safety. The ...

Energy Publications

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July 14, 2021

CFA Admin

Report: History RePPPeated: How PPPs are Failing

Public-Private Partnerships — or PPPs — are increasingly being promoted as a way to finance development projects. This report gives an in-depth, evidence-based analysis of the impact of 10 PPP projects, including two from India, that have taken place across four continents and in both developed and ...

Infrastructure Finance Publications

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September 18, 2025

Anuradha Munshi

Update: Tata Mundra, a Story of Violations, Non-Compliance & Impunity

Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project India is part of an ambitious plan, which saw the building of several coal-based thermal power stations to meet India’s energy needs. Located on the western coast of India, in Gujarat, spanning 72 kilometres covering 10 coastal settlements, it is strategically lo...

Energy International Finance Institutions Publications Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Project World Bank

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October 6, 2018

CFA Admin

Symposium on India’s Engagements and Experiences with Accountability Mechanisms of MDBs: A Report

This year, the Inspection Panel, the accountability mechanism of the World Bank, is completing 25 years. The World Bank’s failure to comply with its operating policies was seen by the entire world in the Bank’s financing of the Sardar Sarovar Dam project on River Narmada. In the 1980s, the tenacity ...

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February 18, 2019

Rajesh Kumar

A Critique of Report on ‘Stressed/Non-Performing Assets in Electricity Sector’

A new report has criticised the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy for failing to fix responsibility on who should have been held accountable for the current NPA crisis in the power sector. The report, titled A Missed Opportunity: A Critique of ‘Stressed/Non-Performing Assets in Electricity ...

Energy Publications

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September 3, 2018

Anuradha Munshi

Case Study: India’s Experience with the IAMs

25 years of Inspection Panel has a special significance for India, having played a key role in its formation. As in the case of all safeguard and other policies, the independent accountability mechanisms (IAMs) of multilateral development banks are also a result of the valiant struggle fought by ...

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May 15, 2019

Elizabeth Summers

Case Study: Why are the Farmers of a Power-Surplus State Like Tamil Nadu Resisiting High Tension Lines and Towers?

The Transmission System Strengthening Project is a project to expand the interstate transmission network in western and southern India. The project, partly funded by ADB and AIIB (as co-financer) along with the Power Grid Corporation of India Limited, has serious environmental and social consequence...

Asian Development Bank Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Energy International Finance Publications

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July 23, 2018

Gaurav Dwivedi

Briefing Paper: An Indian Perspective on NDB & AIIB

The Asian region has experienced the emergence of new MDBs over last few years. For many years, the Asian Development Bank was the only development bank in the region and has been dominated by the Japanese owing to the number of votes it has as compared to other members. However, the newly constitut...

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank International Finance New Development Bank Publications

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July 6, 2018

CFA Admin

The Best of Finance Matters: First Anniversary Issue

A year back when we started our weekly newsletter Finance Matters, what we intended was to bring together the news and analysis from the world of finance, in a form and language comprehensible to the common people. Over the period, the articles and videos that we had carried have ranged from Ease of...

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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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Special Report: The Dark Side of NTPC

Report: History RePPPeated: How PPPs are Failing

Update: Tata Mundra, a Story of Violations, Non-Compliance & Impunity

Symposium on India’s Engagements and Experiences with Accountability Mechanisms of MDBs: A Report

A Critique of Report on ‘Stressed/Non-Performing Assets in Electricity Sector’

Case Study: India’s Experience with the IAMs

Case Study: Why are the Farmers of a Power-Surplus State Like Tamil Nadu Resisiting High Tension Lines and Towers?

Briefing Paper: An Indian Perspective on NDB & AIIB

The Best of Finance Matters: First Anniversary Issue

Booklet: Financial Analysis of Delhi Metro after Phase-III

Special Report: The Dark Side of NTPC

Report: History RePPPeated: How PPPs are Failing

Update: Tata Mundra, a Story of Violations, Non-Compliance & Impunity

Symposium on India’s Engagements and Experiences with Accountability Mechanisms of MDBs: A Report

A Critique of Report on ‘Stressed/Non-Performing Assets in Electricity Sector’

Case Study: India’s Experience with the IAMs

Case Study: Why are the Farmers of a Power-Surplus State Like Tamil Nadu Resisiting High Tension Lines and Towers?

Briefing Paper: An Indian Perspective on NDB & AIIB

The Best of Finance Matters: First Anniversary Issue

Booklet: Financial Analysis of Delhi Metro after Phase-III