External Commercial Borrowing/ ECB External Commercial Borrowing or ECB is an instrument used in India to help corporates access foreign money. ECBs include loans, buyer/supplier credit, special securitized instruments and many more. The department of external affairs along with the central/apex bank RBI and Ministry of Finance regulates the guidelines and policies of ECB. Recently the […]

Mike Parker rightly said, “When you don’t invest in infrastructure, you are going to pay sooner or later.” Indian government after realizing the need of development of infrastructure passed a Public Private Partnership Policy which was regarded as a milestone in infrastructure development. Until lately with the lack of development and late completion of projects, […]

Infrastructure Debt Funds Infrastructure Debt Funds (IDFs) are supposed to be set up in the Indian economy to accelerate and enhance the flow of long term debt in infrastructure projects. This fund is supposed to be used for the funding of the highly ambitious government’s program of infrastructure development. In order to attract off-shore funds […]

Infrastructure development firms are currently facing a tough time, when they have over Rs.15,000 Crore locked up in the ongoing highway projects. The reason of such lock up is the lack on the part of officials, who are reluctant to approve even routine cost escalations for fear of being pulled up by the auditor. Issues […]

Role of Real Estate in the Indian Economy The Indian economy which is one of the most sought after emerging economies of the current century saw its GDP revised in negative direction consistently for the three quarters in the year 2012. The trend is expected to prevail in 2013 as well, though it is expected […]

The Indian Finance Ministry has recently asked the Central Bank of India, the Reserve Bank to consider giving infrastructure status to the housing sector. The ministry has also asked to relax the provisioning norms in the sector so that banks can attract the potential buyers, to lend loans at attractive interest rates. This will boost the economic development […]