Every other person in the world today lives in a city. Of these, one-third live in slums or sub-standard housing and are poor. How nations deal with this rapid pace of urban growth and the crisis

Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar is seeking to replicate the Warna Wired Village project in Baramati with the help of the World Bank and bring internet connectivity to 100 villages.

The forth-coming Saarc meeting at Colombo will set the state for the summit between Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakistan's chief executive Parvez Musharraf. It is now confirmed that

The rate of global trade growth is expected to more than halve this year from last year's 12.5 per cent, the strongest for over a decade, as a consequence of the US led economic slowdown, the World

Balanced, regional growth in the agriculture sector would be an effective means for alleviating rural poverty, experts deliberating on 'Rural Poverty and Livelihood Security' here today pointed out.

The Asian Development Bank has classified a Chinese railroad project linking the cities of Hefei and Xian as part of its anti-poverty crusade. But major beneficiaries of the $300 million loan to

The Rajasthan government has flayed the Centre for reducing allocations under rural development schemes. Rajasthan relief minister Gulab Singh Shaktawat criticised the central government for cutting

Falling commodity prices and hopes of a better life prompt widespread use of children as labourers : a

Many of the poor countries will fall short of international targets for reducing poverty and achieving universal education by 2015, according to new figures released by the World Bank.

The World Bank needs a boost to its budget to combat low staff morale, its president James Wolfensohn said. The bank has recently been rocked by leaked documents showing high levels of