Tag: Infrastructure
‘Innovative Financing’ of Bangalore Metro
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'. https://youtu.be/vATFjqkMscU
Are Gujarat farmers likely to succeed against World Bank’s lending arm IFC – International Finance Corporation?
BloombergQuint The Fineprint | Are Gujarat farmers likely to succeed against World Bank’s lending arm IFC - International Finance Corporation? Vermont Law School’s John Echeverria & CFA's Joe Athialy share their views.
People’s Movements to Challenge AIIB’s Infrastructure Financing: Over 80 CSOs and Social Movements to Organize Events Parallel to AIIB’s AGM in Mumbai
Press Note | May 16, 2018 People’s Movements to Challenge AIIB’s Infrastructure Financing: Over 80 CSOs and Social Movements to Organize Events Parallel to AIIB’s AGM in Mumbai Raising the serious issues of social and environmental costs in infrastructure projects, its economic burden on public and financial non-viability, Civil Society Organisations and social movements are set to organize a three day …
Peoples Convention on Infrastructure Financing: Concept Note
Peoples’ Convention on Infrastructure Financing A response to AIIB Annual Meeting June 21-23, Mumbai, India Introduction: Peoples Convention on Infrastructure Financing – A response to AIIB (Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank) Annual Meeting is the coming together of various groups working towards just and equitable society threatened by the massive infrastructure push resulting in displacement and dispossession …
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Huge Overlap in Investments by MDBs, ExIM Banks, and Bilaterals on Critical Sectors
By Joe Athialy 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 lendings came …
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Gujarat groups protest the exclusion of urban poor and civil society groups from AIIB lead up the seminar on urban development in Ahmedabad
PRESS RELEASE April 18, 2018 Gujarat groups protest the exclusion of urban poor and civil society groups from AIIB lead up the seminar on urban development in Ahmedabad. Social Movements to hold a parallel conference in Mumbai along with Asian Infrastructure Bank 3rdAnnual Governors Meeting. Demands reorienting of visions from existing Multilateral development Banks towards …
CSOs Oppose AIIB’s Plan to Allow Management to Approve Projects
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 forthcoming Board decision to delegate responsibility to AIIB Management to approve its …
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The AIIB’s Investments in Financial Intermediaries: CSOs Call for Disclosure and Accountability
Via electronic mail President Jin Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank B9 Financial Street Xicheng District Beijing 10033 People’s Republic of China 19th January 2018 Copied to: Mr Joachim Von Amsberg, Vice President, jvonamsberg@aiib.orgDr. D.J. Pandian, Vice President, djpandian@aiib.org Mr Dong-Ik Lee, Project Team Leader, dongik.lee@aiib.orgMr. Hamid Sharif, Director General, CEIU, hsharif@aiib.org Mr Yuanjing Sun, Principal Communications …
Working Group on IFIs 