Soaring food and energy prices are likely to push five per cent of the population of the small island economies in the Pacific into poverty, the Asian Development Bank said Tuesday.
Oil producers East Timor and Papua New Guinea, which is also boosted by high mineral prices, are
The Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (Hesco) is planning to establish 16 new grids stations in different parts of Sindh so as to ensure uninterrupted power supply to consumers, said the Chief Executive Officer of Hyderabad Electric Supply Company, Guftar Anjum.
Federal government has agreed to continue to prepare short-term policy recommendations and awareness-building under ongoing new ADB financing project "Sustainable Energy Efficiency Development Programme". Under this programme, new government will further develop recommendations for removing the institutional bottlenecks to government-sponsored energy efficiency and conservation programmes and support mechanisms playing a more effective role in nurturing a nascent energy efficiency industry and consumer culture.
While replying to a question in the Budget session of Assam Assembly on March 24, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi acknowledged that the per capita burden of the State's public debt now comes to Rs 6,806
Power Grid Corp, the country's largest power transmission utility, on Friday said it has signed agreements with World Bank and Asian Development Bank (ADB) for two loans of $600 million each for fun
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide $450 million for 'Punjab Irrigated Agricultural Development Sector Project (PIADSP)' from its Ordinary Capital Resources and Asian Development Fund durin
Contrary to official claims, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) say that poverty has increased in Pakistan since 2004 and the new government should take the issue seriously.
