In January 2018, the Government of India launched EASE 1.0. It was developed by Boston Consultancy Group (BCG), a multinational consultant with no experience in banking at all, and it is still run by...
Disinvestment entails the government selling an asset, in part or full. By the term “monetization” the government is claiming to retain ownership while offering the asset to private players for investment and operationalization. The...
Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) is happy to announce recipients for the 4th Smitu Kothari Fellowship for young writers. The thirteen recipients for 2021 come from diverse backgrounds and experiences, and from different parts...
The Deposit Insurance Act 1961 came into force from 1st January 1962. Though the name still continues to be ‘Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation,’ the Credit Guarantee scheme was discontinued in 2003.
The Deposit...
The Indian stock market is booming. The share price index is repeatedly breaking records. Investors are very happy with this. Around 30 stocks have given 100 per cent returns since February 2021. The enthusiasm...
Tuhin Kanta Pandey, Secretary, Dept of Investment and Public Asset Management was addressing Industrialists in the meeting ‘CII National Conclave’ and stated that disinvestment is back on track now. He is supposed to invest...
HDFC Ltd has got a loan of $250 million from International Finance Corporation (IFC), the investment arm of the World Bank Group, to be used by India’s largest housing finance company for green housing....
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...
RBI vide its June 14, 2021 press release has issued a 30 page “Consultative Document on Regulation of Microfinance” (henceforth “Document”) seeking comments from public at large.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman recently tweeted- “The Primary reason for PSBs to post such as Rs.57832 Crore turn around – from a loss of Rs.26016 Crore in 2019-2020 to a combined profit of Rs....
In line with the attempts of Centre for Financial Accountability to work towards exploring the possibilities and handicaps in the much touted energy transition from fossil fuels to Renewable energy, world over in general...
As we drove on the untarred road, passing through brick walls sparsely covered with cow dung cakes, we reached the village of Valluru. A rather sunny day in January 2019. It was here that...
Listen to a conversation with Prof. Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Professor, Resource, Environment and Development Program, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, talking to Bhargavi Rao and Aswathi Nair, from Centre for Financial Accountability.
Amidst the Paris negotiations of 2015, the International Solar Alliance (ISA), as initiated by India and France, has come to garner attention and propel discussions and analyses at the level of academia as well...