It is noteworthy that currently, coal-based power projects are under threat due to lack of coal linkages and power purchase agreements, thus stalling many existing power projects and discouraging many companies from expanding to new coal power projects. This would give a boost to hydropower projects in many regions, especially in the Himalayan regions.
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Afzar Jaffri on The Water sector and International Financial Institutions
At the Kharghar meeting on IFIs in India, Civil Society researchers discussed Understanding IFIS - Investments, intelligence and trends in critical sectors.
Transport and International Financial Institutions: Rajendra Ravi
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.
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.
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.
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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Press Release:People’s Movements Determined to challenge the unbridled expansion of infrastructure financing by international financial institutions
Chennai: June 4, 2018 • Peoples Movements & CSOs to organise Peoples’ Convention on infrastructure financing coinciding the 3rd Annual Governors Meeting of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in Mumbai • Determined to challenge the unbridled expansion of infrastructure financing by international financial institutions Posing a challenge to the rapid expansion plans of international financial …
ऊर्जा के क्षेत्र में वित्तीय संस्थाओं की भूमिका
आमंत्रण एशियाई इंफ्रास्ट्रक्चर इंवेस्टमेंट बैंक (AIIB) की भोपाल में आयोजित बैठक के संदर्भ में “ऊर्जा के क्षेत्र में वित्तीय संस्थाओं की भूमिका” विषय पर विमर्श वक़्ता: श्री सौम्या दत्ता, पर्यावरणविद एवं ऊर्जा विशेषज्ञ श्री राजेंद्र कोठरी, लघु एवं माध्यम उद्योग संगठन श्री राजकुमार सिन्हा, बर्गी बाँध विस्थापित एवं प्रभावित संघ श्रीमती चित्तरूपा पालित, नर्मदा बचाई …
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Financial Analysis of the Blue Economy: Sagarmala’s Case in Point
Financial Analysis of the Blue Economy: Sagarmala’s Case in Point by Dr Himanshu Damle of Public Finance Public Accountability Collective, New Delhi and could be reached at himanshudamle@pfpac.net The article was originally published here in an abridged form.
Working Group on IFIs 