Does metro help in decongesting traffic? How was Bangalore Metro financed?
Leo Saldanha of Environment Support Group, Bangalore, shares the history of Bangalore Metro and explains how it was ‘innovatively financed’.
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There has been a worldwide growth in hydropower development, with 31.5 GW new capacity installed in 2016. This figure includes 6.4 GW of pumped storage – nearly double the previous year – while there is a further 20 GW of pumped storage under construction globally.
This growth is indicative of impen...
April 9, 2018: 62 Civil Society Groups from four continents issued a public statement to express their concern about the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank’s (AIIB) ongoing Board meetings in which it is being proposed to empower Bank’s Management to approve some projects.
“The forthcomi...
Undermining Accountability at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: A Public Statement from the Concerned Civil Society on the AIIB Accountability Framework
6 April 2018
We, the undersigned civil society groups from around the world, express our alarm and deepest concern about the AIIB’s impendi...
To,
Shri. M.M. Kutty
Executive Director, India
Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank
March 14, 2018
Subject: AIIB’s proposed investment in National Investment and Infrastructure Fund
Dear Shri M.M. Kutty,
We are writing with regard to the AIIB’s proposed investment into India’s National Investment an...
Credit: GreenWatch Dhaka
The Council on Ethics for the Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), an independent body of the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, that makes recommendations to the Norges Bank with regards to either excluding companies from the GPFG or placing them under observati...
This document is an effort to compile data of investments coming into India from MDBs, ExIm banks and other bilateral investments, to help understand the landscape of financing from these institutions and help to understand the overlaps of international financial institutions in certain key sectors....
Ever since the first lending from World Bank in 1949 worth $34 million to Indian Railways and the bilateral credit India received from the erstwhile USSR and USA in the early 50s, India has been a recipient of significant funds from different multilateral and bilateral sources.
While each of these l...
A latest report has asked Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) to “tread carefully” on National Infrastructure and Investment Fund (NIIF), a fund of fund that seeks to create long-term value for domestic and international investors seeking investment in energy, transportation, housing, water,...
