Here is your weekly round-up of economy and finance. Check out our website for more stories and reports- www.cenfa.org

Suisse Secrets: Reporting by OCCRP -  

https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/Remedy-in-Development.pdf 

Remedy in Development Report - 

https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/Remedy-in-Development.pdf  

Rise of gold loan auctions ominous! Household finances in deep distress - 

https://www.fortuneindia.com/opinion/rise-of-gold-loan-auctions-ominous-household-finances-in-deep-distress/107181   

Greetings of the International Women's Day!

In this episode of You, Me and the Economy, Bhargavi Rao, Swati Seshadri, Ashi Datta, Priyadarshini and Kavita Kabeer discuss the ways in which energy is produced, its accessibility for women, and what challenges it is posing in places where it is being produced. 

Here is your weekly round-up of economy and finance. Check out our website for more stories and reports- www.cenfa.org 

On Ukraine-Russia Conflict and its economic impacts-

https://thewire.in/economy/india-russia-ukraine-war-consequences-impact 

https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/with-russia-ukraine-conflict-comes-inflation-challenge-7793689/  

https://www.farminglife.com/country-and-farming/why-is-ukraine-known-as-the-breadbasket-of-europe-heres-what-it-produces-and-exports-3584361 

ESG Rating Providers for Securities Markets-

https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/esg-what-sebis-consultation-paper-proposes-for-esg-ratings-providers 

UNEA-5.2 and Plastic Treaty-

https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/plastics-treaty/ 

https://www.unep.org/environmentassembly/unea5 

https://www.unep.org/environmentassembly/about-unea-5 

https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/historic-day-campaign-beat-plastic-pollution-nations-commit-develop 

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Energy and Finance Conference India 2021 videos are available on our YouTube Channel. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiTtEJ09WlM&list=PL6vY5yWmJ1kbYj7Q8D-BzCbgofqyIj2qg

Here is your weekly round-up of economy and finance. Check out our website for more stories and reports- www.cenfa.org 

RBI Governor on cryptos 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-10/india-s-central-bank-chief-says-crypto-is-not-even-a-tulip 

RBI Deputy Governor on cryptos 

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/banning-cryptocurrency-the-most-advisable-choice-open-to-india-says-rbi-deputy-governor-8092061.html 

NSE Scam- 

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/explained-the-nse-scam-the-faceless-yogi-and-trips-to-tax-havens/articleshow/89717719.cms 

People’s Commission Statement on LIC 

https://reclaimtherepublic.co/2022/01/21/statement-on-lic-ipo/ 

Selling the Golden Goose for a Pittance – Does our FM know what LIC is? 

https://www.cenfa.org/uncategorized/selling-the-golden-goose-for-a-pittance-does-our-fm-know-what-lic-is/ 

How to kill LIC - story behind IPO 

https://www.cenfa.org/videos/how-to-kill-lic-story-behind-ipo-the-money-trail/

LIC को क्यूँ बेचा जा रहा है? 

https://bit.ly/lichindi 

Who stands to gain if LIC bleeds? 

https://www.cenfa.org/uncategorized/who-stands-to-gain-if-lic-bleeds/ 

CFA Press Release - 

https://www.cenfa.org/uncategorized/nobel-prize-winning-economist-joseph-stiglitz-and-others-urge-the-us-supreme-court-to-review-world-bank-group-immunity-in-the-tata-mundra-finance-case/ 

Budha Ismail Jam, et al v. IFC Case Summary - 

https://earthrights.org/case/budha-ismail-jam-et-al-v-ifc/ 

Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Project Important links - 

https://www.cenfa.org/projects-in-focus/tata-mundra-ultra-mega-project/ 

Infrastructure projects- 

https://www.financialexpress.com/infrastructure/highway-construction-hit-by-rains-and-cyclones-falls-to-a-four-year-low/2435159/  

Deocha Pachami Coal Project-  

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/economist-eight-others-held-in-bengal-for-protests-against-deocha-pachami-coal-project/article65077244.ece  

An Unkept Promise: Book review 

https://www.cenfa.org/book-review-how-mindless-decisions-since-2014-worsened-the-abject-economy-we-inherited/ 

Here is your weekly round-up of economy and finance. Check out our website for more stories and reports- www.cenfa.org

Business Enabling Environment Project pre-concept note - https://consultations.worldbank.org/sites/default/files/2022-02/BEE%20Pre-Concept%20Note%20-%20Feb%208%202022.pdf

International Finance Updates - 

https://www.cenfa.org/uncategorized/aiib-reviewing-energy-strategy-adb-its-safeguard-policies/

Concerns raised by CSOs in a letter to AIIB - 

https://www.forum-adb.org/post/follow-up-correspondence-concerning-the-2022-energy-sector-strategy-update

Centre infuses Rs 20k cr in NaBFID -

https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/centre-infuses-rs-20k-cr-in-nabfid-bbb-invites-applications-for-post-of-md-122020701793_1.html  

IIFCL plans to invest Rs 2,000 crore in infra bonds, Rs 1,500 crore in InvITs -

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/iifcl-plans-to-invest-rs-2000-crore-in-infra-bonds-rs-1500-crore-in-invits-by-march-end-8060781.html 

To fast-track ropeways, green ministry says waive EIA -

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/to-fast-track-ropeways-green-ministry-says-waive-eia/articleshow/89374546.cms

Here is your weekly round-up of economy and finance. Check out our website for more stories and reports- www.cenfa.org 

A Peopleless Budget: Budget 2022 Analysis - https://www.cenfa.org/coal/a-peopleless-budget-budget-2022-analysis/ 

Link to the latest Infrastructure Finance Update- https://www.cenfa.org/infrastructure-finance/445-infrastructure-projects-show-cost-overruns-of-rs-4-4-trillion-while-557-are-de 

Private Investments in India- A Mapping Report - https://www.cenfa.org/uncategorized/private-investments-in-india-a-mapping-report/ 

The LIC IPO: Undervaluing India’s Crown Jewel - https://www.newsclick.in/lic-ipo-undervaluing-indias-crown-jewel-i

Pandemic As An Opportunity- Covid 19 Outbreak & Response of Multilateral Development Banks - https://www.cenfa.org/publications/pandemic-as-an-opportunity/

This episode of “You, me and the Economy” is part 5 and also the final one in the series produced with the support received from the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. In this episode you will be listening to Shalini Bhutani, an independent legal researcher and policy analyst, who has done extensive work on the impacts of Free Trade Agreements. In this episode, Shalini will give us an overview of the free trade agreements and where is India at, on the FTA front, basically presenting a balance sheet on issues and concerns regarding FTAs.

This episode of “You, me and the Economy” is part 4 of the series produced with the support received from the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. In this episode you will be listening to Ranja Sengupta who  is a senior economist and currently the head of the India office of the Third World Network. In this episode Ranja will help us understand the current dynamics of the World Trade Organization and the politics surrounding the 12th WTO  Ministerial Conference. IN this episode she will  also draw our attention on the long-standing issues concerning the developing countries.

This episode of “You, me and the Economy” is part 3 of the series produced with the support received from the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. In this episode you will be listening to Dr. Daniela Prates who is  Senior Economic Affairs Officer at UNCTAD and Associate Professor of Economics (on leave) at the University of Campinas. Daniela will talk about the role of multilateral development banks in the current Global Financial Architecture, delving into her findings on the pattern of MDB lending during the pandemic and the ways of scaling it up.