Central banks and climate change: How they can play a role in managing the fallout

Central banks set interest rates, which determines the prices of goods and services. This, in turn, influences the climate impacts of their …

Drastic step or careless move?

Bill allows regional rural banks to tap private capital

Green lending: World’s biggest banks’ latest initiative at COP26 is a step backwards

It wouldn’t make sense to abruptly forbid lending to non-green projects now, since we need to avoid hitting hardest the banks that are …

Why central banks need to take human rights more seriously

36 central banks and banking supervisors, participate in the central bank and supervisors network for greening the financial system

Collective action around common resources could help vulnerable communities

There are significant opportunities to build on ideas to promote collective action and commercialisation without commodification on a larger scale

For more skin in the game

With RBI and the Supreme Court calling for action against powerful debtors, state-owned banks have been put on notice

Public banks responsible for $800 billion in damages to nature annually: Report

Some 450 public development banks worldwide are exposed to a ‘dependency risk’ worth $4.6 trillion, due to their investments in nature-…

Educational gaps limit success of women-owned businesses in Africa: UN Report

Secondary-and tertiary-educated women are more likely to pursue opportunities and access financial services, according to the document

Centre’s ban on blood donation for transgender people, gay men and sex workers symptomatic of systemic failure

All donated blood is tested for HIV, other infections, making prohibition unnecessary

Climate change: Will it spur the next financial crisis

BIS, the umbrella organisation of central banks, recently warned on global financial stability

Drones deliver medicines in Africa

A US-based company transports life-saving drugs, 148 vaccines and blood units to 2,000 health facilities across Ghana

47 per cent blood banks in Delhi do not have licences; some for years

Two blood banks were found to have been functioning without renewing licence for more than four years

Banks at a loss

Piling up non-performing assets serve as a lesson for banks to do social and environmental impact assessments of projects more rigorously

Who foots the huge dole for business?

Bad loans of public sector banks to business are more than double the food subsidy

Access to financial services can help rural India cope with climate risks: Study

Over half the Indian households surveyed who faced climate shocks used their own savings to cope 

Environmental & social responsibility of financial institutions must go beyond green initiatives 

Most Indian banks and financial institutions do not have any environmental and social safeguard mechanisms

COVID-19: In a first, public development banks pledge to end hunger, poverty

Commitment by PDBs significant for over 500 million small landholders 

2022 Economics Nobel awarded to trio for improving ability to avoid financial crises

Banks, by acting as intermediaries that accept deposits from many savers, can allow depositors to access their money when they wish, while also …

Rejoinder: ‘One CGIAR won’t alter international germplasm collections’

The One CGIAR transition process was born of a recognition that the evolving, interconnected global challenges facing our food systems require a …

COVID-19 pandemic impacted blood supply in Africa: WHO

There was a shortfall of 329,0289 units of blood in 2020

Tikait on Green revolution

When asked to comment on the green revolution, Mahendra singh Tikait, Bharat Kisan Union (BKU) leader relates it to issues of organic …

Tikait on farmer loans

Here's a sneak preview of BKU (Bharat Kisan Union) Leader Mahendra Singh Tikait's tête-á-tête with DTE on farmers' income, …

Food race: These space seeds can help grow climate-resilient crops

This is the first feasibility study by global agencies to determine the effect of cosmic radiation, microgravity and extreme

Banking on a flimsy promise

The government is clueless about incentives it has promised under its Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana to bring every family under the formal …

Panel recommends deadline for cleaning Yamuna banks of construction debris, garbage

Proposal to be submitted to National Green Tribunal for final order