Call for Volunteers: Independent People’s Tribunal Research Support

We're looking for six research volunteers to join our team in preparing resource materials for the Independent People’s Tribunal on World Bank/IMF @ 80 for a period of one month. Volunteers will support our research team by working closely with prosecutors and disposers to develop resource materials for the Tribunal on themes related to the …

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Indian Civil Society Demands a new democratic financialsystem on World Bank/IMF’s 80th Anniversary

The Bretton Woods institutions - the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF)- have completed 80 years of existence and operations.  As people of the global south, who continue to bear the brunt of the impacts of colonial expansion, resource extraction, wealth concentration, climate change and deepening inequality, we demand that these institutions be shut …

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Sucheta Dalal on the Growing Crisis in the Indian Banking Sector

Financial analyst and journalist Sucheta Dalal said that the Indian banking system is at the verge of crisis, reeling under the mounting bad loans, caused by unfettered corporate loans. Referring to government’s announcement in the Parliament that Rs. 2.4 lakh crore bad loans are written off, she said that “ if farm loan waiver was …

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भारत में जलविद्युत विकास को बड़े पैमाने पर बढ़ावा

इस सेक्टर में निजी क्षत्रे को आकर्षित करने के लिए सरकार ने 2016 में इस पर चर्चा शुरू की कि नवीकरणीय ऊर्जा के क्षत्रे को और विस्तृत किया जाए ताकि 25 मेगावाट क्षमता से अधिक के जलविद्युत स्टेशन भी उसमें शामिल किए जा सके। इससे सरकार को 2022 तक 175 मेगावाट नवीकरणीय ऊर्जा उत्पादित करने …

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