President George W. Bush proposed that the big, multinational lending institutions do far more for the health and education of people in the world's poorest countries, and with far fewer strings

President George W. Bush launched an ambitious attempt to overhaul the World Bank's funding, proposing to replace up to half the bank's loans with grants to the poorest countries. Outlining his

Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee will soon convene an all-party meeting to discuss the role of MPs in implementation of centrally sponsored rural development programmes. This was stated by Union

India' s policy makers may derive some satisfaction from the fact that it has improved its rank on the basis of the UNDP's human development index by 13 notches in one year, and that it is one of 11

India has moved 13 notches up and is now ranked 115th on the Human Development Index (HDI), according to the Human Development Report 2001 released today by the United Nations Development Programme

The normally eulogised annual event of the UNDP--release of Human Development Report (HDR)--received its share of brickbats hours before the release of its 2001 report for being "pro-multinational"

The Rajasthan Government has formulated a novel scheme to develop two villages in each district as model villages by providing them all facilities on the fronts of education, communication, drinking

Haryana has ranked second with 95.49 per cent utilisation of funds for centrally-sponsored rural development schemes in the year 2000-2001 followed by Tamil Nadu. According to an official spokesman,

The Rajasthan Council of Ministers today took a critical look at the performance of the State Government and resolved to set up task forces to accomplish targets in selected areas. In marathon

The looming fight for trade promotion authority-formerly called fast-track-will show how committed the US president is to free trade : a