Development Finance Workshop - Programme
Date: 19th -20th August, 2019
Venue: CONFERENCE HALL,
French Institute of Pondicherry
French Institute of Pondicherry (www.ifpindia.org) in collaboration with Centre for Financial Accountability, New Delhi (www.cenfa.org) is organizing a two day Training Workshop in “Development Finance” on the 19th and 20th of August 2019, at the French Institute of Pondicherry, in Pondicherry. The training will be tailored to the needs of students, scholars and civil society organizations interested in development studies in relation to corporate and infrastructure finance, banking reforms and challenges, changes in the financial mechanisms of particular sectors like energy in India would benefit from the workshop. The Department of Social Sciences at the IFP is organizing this workshop as part of its continuing work in the area of labour and finance under the emerging developmental regime, both at the national and international levels. It is also part of its ongoing Project on Fishercoast, which studies the large scale transformations underway in the coastal regions of Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra due to energy and infrastructure projects, clearly fueled by financial dynamics. The Social Sciences Department is committed towards understanding the changing functions and place of money in the working lives of people and we welcome enthusiastic participants inclined towards sharing our concerns.
For the detailed programme of the Workshop, please refer below.
DEVELOPMENT FINANCE WORKSHOP
French Institute of Pondicherry and Centre for Financial Accountability
August 19, Monday
9.00 – 9.30
Introduction to Participants
Introduction to Workshop
Ajit Menon, MIDS, Chennai
9.30 – 01.00
Capital Questions: What stumps a Reporter writing on Oligarchy in India today
How Money Thinks and Moves
Changing Landscape of finance and Banking
Rajshekar M, Journalist
M S Sriram, IIM Bangalore
Thomas Franco, All India Bank Officers Association
1.00 – 2.00
Lunch Break
2.00 – 3.30
Understanding various sources of Finance
Maju Varghese, CENFA, New Delhi
3.30 – 3.45
Tea / Coffee Break
3.45 – 5.00
Energy Policy in India – Highlights, influences and critique
Rajesh Kumar, CENFA, New Delhi
5.00 – 6.00
Presentation
August 20, Tuesday
9.00 – 9.30
Recap of Day 1
9.30 -11.00
Financing People or Financing Corporates – Need for Financial Accountability in Indian Banks
Priya Dharshini, CENFA, New Delhi
11.00 – 11.15
Tea / Coffee break
11.15 – 12.45
Understanding International Finance and Institutions
Maju Varghese, CENFA, New Delhi
1.00 – 2.00
Lunch
2.00 – 3.30
Energy project and investments – Lending in Coal projects in Tamil Nadu
Rajesh Kumar, CENFA, New Delhi
3.30 – 3.45
Tea / Coffee Break
3.45 – 5.30
Open Discussion
Contact Email : senthil.babu@ifpindia.org
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Date: 19th -20th August, 2019
Venue: CONFERENCE HALL,
French Institute of Pondicherry
French Institute of Pondicherry (www.ifpindia.org) in collaboration with Centre for Financial Accountability, New Delhi (www.cenfa.org) is organizing a two day Training Workshop in “Development Finance” on the 19th and 20th of August 2019, at the French Institute of Pondicherry, in Pondicherry. The training will be tailored to the needs of students, scholars and civil society organizations interested in development studies in relation to corporate and infrastructure finance, banking reforms and challenges, changes in the financial mechanisms of particular sectors like energy in India would benefit from the workshop. The Department of Social Sciences at the IFP is organizing this workshop as part of its continuing work in the area of labour and finance under the emerging developmental regime, both at the national and international levels. It is also part of its ongoing Project on Fishercoast, which studies the large scale transformations underway in the coastal regions of Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra due to energy and infrastructure projects, clearly fueled by financial dynamics. The Social Sciences Department is committed towards understanding the changing functions and place of money in the working lives of people and we welcome enthusiastic participants inclined towards sharing our concerns.
For the detailed programme of the Workshop, please refer below.
DEVELOPMENT FINANCE WORKSHOP
French Institute of Pondicherry and Centre for Financial Accountability
August 19, Monday
9.00 – 9.30
Introduction to Participants
Introduction to Workshop
Ajit Menon, MIDS, Chennai
9.30 – 01.00
Capital Questions: What stumps a Reporter writing on Oligarchy in India today
How Money Thinks and Moves
Changing Landscape of finance and Banking
Rajshekar M, Journalist
M S Sriram, IIM Bangalore
Thomas Franco, All India Bank Officers Association
1.00 – 2.00
Lunch Break
2.00 – 3.30
Understanding various sources of Finance
Maju Varghese, CENFA, New Delhi
3.30 – 3.45
Tea / Coffee Break
3.45 – 5.00
Energy Policy in India – Highlights, influences and critique
Rajesh Kumar, CENFA, New Delhi
5.00 – 6.00
Presentation
August 20, Tuesday
9.00 – 9.30
Recap of Day 1
9.30 -11.00
Financing People or Financing Corporates – Need for Financial Accountability in Indian Banks
Priya Dharshini, CENFA, New Delhi
11.00 – 11.15
Tea / Coffee break
11.15 – 12.45
Understanding International Finance and Institutions
Maju Varghese, CENFA, New Delhi
1.00 – 2.00
Lunch
2.00 – 3.30
Energy project and investments – Lending in Coal projects in Tamil Nadu
Rajesh Kumar, CENFA, New Delhi
3.30 – 3.45
Tea / Coffee Break
3.45 – 5.30
Open Discussion
Contact Email : senthil.babu@ifpindia.org
Download Programme [PDF]