Overlap of Issues on Key Sectors in relations with International Financial Institutions. IN Transport, the emphasis seems to be on high-cost travel and with pricing systems that push the poor into more inconvenient modes.
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Smart Cities and International Financial Institutions
Overlap of Issues on Key Sectors in relations with International Financial Institutions. Smart Cities project will make pockets of the cities exclusive zones high-cost zones, which will again result in the marginalised being excluded into dense low-grade services area.
Schedule of the Workshops at the Peoples’ Convention on Infrastructure Financing
At the Peoples Convention on Infrastructure Financing, almost 90 regional, national, and international grassroots and research organisations have come together to organise 20 workshops related to Infrastructure Financing; Development Financial Institutions; Policies and Safeguards; Urban Development; Transport; Port and Coastal Infrastructure; Energy and Energy Finance; Trade and International Financing; Water and Water Sector Reforms; Privatisation and PPPs, Gender; …
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Bullet Train: Propelling Public Debt in India
Krishnakant of the Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti, Gujarat on the rationale of the proposed bullet train between Mumbai and Ahmedabad.
The Role of IFIs in the Development Agenda
Ulka Mahajan on the Context of the Role of IFIs in the Development Agenda
PPPs, Infrastructure, and Economic Development
Shalmali Guttal, Focus on the Global South, discusses the IFIs, PPPs, Infrastructure, and Economic Development.
विकास किसके लिए ?आम जनता के लिए या पूंजीपतियों के लिए
एशियन इंफ्रास्ट्रक्चर इन्वेस्टमेंट बैंक (AIIB), अब दुनिया की सबसे मजबूत और शक्तिशाली वित्तीय संस्था बन गई है । हाल में ही इसी वर्ष AIIB ने भारत में इंफ्रास्ट्रक्चर योजनाओं के लिए 1.5 बिलियन डॉलर निवेश करने के लिए प्रतिबद्ध हुई है । इसका निश्चित तौर भारत की विकास योजनाओं के शेप और उसकी प्रकृति में …
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Coastal Infrastructure and Fishers Struggle in India
Jesu Rathnam, Convenor, Coastal Action Network, on the coastal infrastructure and fishers struggle in India
Seminar on the Role of Infrastructure Finance and Newer Development Banks
Seminar on the Role of Infrastructure Finance and Newer Development Banks for Peoples’ Convention on Infrastructure Financing A peoples' response to AIIB’s Annual Meeting Invitation A seminar is being organised on the Role of Infrastructure Finance and Newer Development Banks on the 7th of June at Gandhi Peace Foundation at 2:00PM. The seminar is being organised by the …
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IFIs, Infrastructure, and Commons
Soumya Dutta, Beyond Copenhagen Collective and PAIRVI, linking IFIs, their push for Infrastructure, and impact on commons.
Working Group on IFIs 