General Archives - Page 100 of 114 - Centre for Financial Accountability

Cost of Bank Mergers: The Need for a CAG Audit

Public Sector Banks (PSBs) have played a significant part in the country’s economic growth. The principles of nationaliz...

Article

Railways Stare at Privatisation: World Bank offers to help National Rail Plan

Infrastructure Finance Update, September 2021 As the Indian Railways are staring at getting privatised under the Nationa...

General Infrastructure Finance

Article

Ensuring green equity means equity for people and the planet

14 October 2021: With the world facing a climate crisis, urgent action is required on many fronts, not least in ensuring...

General International Finance International Finance Institutions Publications

Article

World Bank’s Doing Business Report is Just the Tip of the Iceberg!

In September, the World Bank announced that it would discontinue the publication of the Doing Business Report and Rankin...

General International Finance International Finance Corporation International Finance Institutions World Bank

Article

Coal Shortage: Crisis, False Solutions & Opportunity

A Statement in the Context of the Coal Shortage October 11, 2021: India’s power ecosystem, which depends overwhelm...

Climate Finance Coal Energy General Statements

Article

SBI- A Guinea Pig for Neo-liberal Policies

Lessons for insurance policyholders to understand the future of LIC. The union government is bent upon privatising the L...

General Random Reflections

Article

शहरी विकास और स्मार्ट सिटी

परिचय: 25 जून, 2015 को प्रधानमंत्री श्री नरेंद्र मोदी द्वारा स्मार्ट सिटी मिशन शुरू किया गया था। इस योजना में पांच वर्ष...

Capacity Building General Infrastructure Finance

Article

Case of Air India- Wilfully destroyed & now privatised!

To destroy a transport undertaking, privatise its routes and burden it with excessive aircrafts thereby creating unrepay...

Finance General Indian Economy

Article

RE Matters | September 2021

News & Views on Renewable Energy Introducing an exclusive monthly newsletter on Renewables, RE Matters, from Centre ...

General Renewable Energy Matters

Article

Are Mega Solar Projects Really the Energy Alternatives We are Looking at?

In 2014, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, launched the Scheme for Development of Solar Parks and Ultra Mega Solar P...

Energy General Renewable

« Previous

October 19, 2021

Kannan Neelamegan

Cost of Bank Mergers: The Need for a CAG Audit

Public Sector Banks (PSBs) have played a significant part in the country’s economic growth. The principles of nationalization also contributed to the social banking character of the PSBs. This scenario has been changing since implementation of the new economic policies in the 90s. Three decades down...

Bank Mergers General Indian Economy National Financial Institutions Publications

Article

October 19, 2021

Shivani Dwivedi

Railways Stare at Privatisation: World Bank offers to help National Rail Plan

Infrastructure Finance Update, September 2021 As the Indian Railways are staring at getting privatised under the National Monetisation Pipeline, the World Bank has outlined the role it can play as India looks to fund its ambitious National Rail Plan over the next 30 years, which envisages almost 8,0...

General Infrastructure Finance

Article

October 14, 2021

CFA Admin

Ensuring green equity means equity for people and the planet

14 October 2021: With the world facing a climate crisis, urgent action is required on many fronts, not least in ensuring adequate levels of climate finance to support mitigation and adaptation in the Global South. Campaigns to shift public finance, provided through instruments such as development ba...

General International Finance International Finance Institutions Publications

Article

October 13, 2021

CFA Admin

World Bank’s Doing Business Report is Just the Tip of the Iceberg!

In September, the World Bank announced that it would discontinue the publication of the Doing Business Report and Ranking (DBR). This overdue decision came after a series of internal audits and an investigation that revealed serious ethical improprieties, conflicts of interest inherent in the Bank’s...

General International Finance International Finance Corporation International Finance Institutions World Bank

Article

October 12, 2021

CFA Admin

Coal Shortage: Crisis, False Solutions & Opportunity

A Statement in the Context of the Coal Shortage October 11, 2021: India’s power ecosystem, which depends overwhelmingly on coal to meet the country’s baseline electricity demand, is suddenly faced with an acute coal shortage. Even when the Coal Ministry tried to play down the coal shorta...

Climate Finance Coal Energy General Statements

Article

October 11, 2021

Thomas Franco

SBI- A Guinea Pig for Neo-liberal Policies

Lessons for insurance policyholders to understand the future of LIC. The union government is bent upon privatising the Life Insurance Corporation of India. They stealthily announced an amendment to the LIC Act by making a statement in the Union Budget 2021 and made it a part of the Finance Act 2021 ...

General Random Reflections

Article

October 8, 2021

CFA Admin

शहरी विकास और स्मार्ट सिटी

परिचय: 25 जून, 2015 को प्रधानमंत्री श्री नरेंद्र मोदी द्वारा स्मार्ट सिटी मिशन शुरू किया गया था। इस योजना में पांच वर्षों की अवधि में 100 स्मार्ट शहरों के निर्माण की परिकल्पना की गई थी। इस योजना का उद्देश्य उन शहरों को बढ़ावा देना है जो वहां के नागरिकों को मूलभूत इंफ्रास्ट्रक्चर उपलब्ध कराने के साथ...

Capacity Building General Infrastructure Finance

Article

October 7, 2021

K Ashok Rao

Case of Air India- Wilfully destroyed & now privatised!

To destroy a transport undertaking, privatise its routes and burden it with excessive aircrafts thereby creating unrepayable debt. This is exactly what was done with Air India (and Indian Airlines) Rationale for nationalisation Post–Independence, there was reluctance to nationalise the vari...

Finance General Indian Economy

Article

October 6, 2021

CFA Admin

RE Matters | September 2021

News & Views on Renewable Energy Introducing an exclusive monthly newsletter on Renewables, RE Matters, from Centre for Financial Accountability. An extension of CFA’s work to understand and critically analyse the global energy transition from coal to renewables and its implications for India. D...

General Renewable Energy Matters

Article

October 5, 2021

Anuradha Munshi

Are Mega Solar Projects Really the Energy Alternatives We are Looking at?

In 2014, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, launched the Scheme for Development of Solar Parks and Ultra Mega Solar Power Projects to meet some of the targets for building large-scale solar-power plants in India. Under this scheme, there are 34 large-scale, grid-connected solar parks of total cap...

Energy General Renewable

Article

« Previous

Categories

General

Cost of Bank Mergers: The Need for a CAG Audit

Railways Stare at Privatisation: World Bank offers to help National Rail Plan

Ensuring green equity means equity for people and the planet

World Bank’s Doing Business Report is Just the Tip of the Iceberg!

Coal Shortage: Crisis, False Solutions & Opportunity

SBI- A Guinea Pig for Neo-liberal Policies

शहरी विकास और स्मार्ट सिटी

Case of Air India- Wilfully destroyed & now privatised!

RE Matters | September 2021

Are Mega Solar Projects Really the Energy Alternatives We are Looking at?

Cost of Bank Mergers: The Need for a CAG Audit

Railways Stare at Privatisation: World Bank offers to help National Rail Plan

Ensuring green equity means equity for people and the planet

World Bank’s Doing Business Report is Just the Tip of the Iceberg!

Coal Shortage: Crisis, False Solutions & Opportunity

SBI- A Guinea Pig for Neo-liberal Policies

शहरी विकास और स्मार्ट सिटी

Case of Air India- Wilfully destroyed & now privatised!

RE Matters | September 2021

Are Mega Solar Projects Really the Energy Alternatives We are Looking at?