Book: Rubbles of an Economic Earthquake

In the past four and a half years, the country has gone through a major socio-political and economic upheaval as never before. At no point in the recent history has the country as a...

Read more January 11, 2019 at 2:36 pm Thomas Franco

Briefing Note: IFC, Climate Change and Investments in Cities

The briefing note discusses the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) analysis and estimates of the investment opportunities in infrastructure development opening up, primarily for the private sector, in the urban areas due to the aggravating...

Read more January 5, 2019 at 6:57 pm Gaurav Dwivedi

विशेष रिपोर्ट: एनटीपीसी का कड़वा सच

नेशनल थर्मल पाॅवर काॅरपोरेशन (एनटीपीसी) भारत के चार ‘‘नवरत्नों‘‘ में से एक होने के साथ, एक “फार्च्यून 500″ कंपनी भी है। भारत के विकास में एनटीपीसी ने चार दशकों से ऊपर एक अहम् भूमिका...

Read more January 1, 2019 at 1:55 pm Nishank

बुकलेट: तीसरे चरण के बाद दिल्ली मेट्रो का वित्तीय विश्लेषण

कैंब्रिज के अर्थशास्त्री, हा-जून चांग का मानना है कि ‘अर्थशास्त्र का 95 प्रतिशत सिर्फ सामान्य समझ है, जिसे गणित और भारी-भरकम शब्दावली का प्रयोग करके मुश्किल बनाया जाता है।’ इससे हम समझ सकते हैं...

Read more December 21, 2018 at 5:50 pm Nishant

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...

Read more October 25, 2018 at 12:17 pm Nishank

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,...

Read more October 15, 2018 at 11:38 am CFA

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...

Read more October 7, 2018 at 11:56 am Anuradha Munshi

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...

Read more October 5, 2018 at 3:46 am CFA

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,...

Read more September 6, 2018 at 7:16 pm Rajesh Kumar

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)...

Read more September 3, 2018 at 4:07 pm Anuradha Munshi

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...

Read more August 9, 2018 at 5:09 pm Elizabeth Summers

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...

Read more July 23, 2018 at 1:56 pm Gaurav Dwivedi

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...

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...

Read more June 22, 2018 at 9:09 pm Nishant

कोयला धन

भारत में ताप विद्युत परियोजनाओं का वित्तीय स्वरूप भारत का विश्व में विद्युत उत्पादन में पांचवाँ स्थान है। जुलाई 2017 के अंतमें भारत की कुल स्थापित क्षमता 330274 मेगावाॅट थी। उसमंे से लगभग 67...