When the World Bank and International Monetary Fund spring meetings open in Washington, D.C., on April 29, 2001, officials will point proudly to the roughly $20 billion in debt that they have

Seeking a tougher approach to emergency bailouts by the International Monetary Fund, the Bush Administration plans to tell the IMF that countries in crisis should move to overhaul their economies

Mike Moore, the director general of the World Trade Organisation, expressed concern about the growing regionalisation of international trading relations, as evidenced by the planned Free Trade Area

The new arrangements of the village government introduced in Madhya Pradesh is facing some gestation problems in some areas. The gram sabhas could not be held in 35 per cent of villages of Indore

The weekend summit in Quebec will concentrate on the creation of a Free-Trade Area of the Americas. The Bush Administration is all for it; South America's biggest economy, Brazil, is not so

The Gujarat Government's decision to scrap octroi in 150 municipalities and 330 gram panchayats has been given the Cabinet

The Bush Administration expects its effort to wind new trade negotiating authority from the US Congress to take at least the rest of this year, in a fresh sign that the president's trade agenda is

The World Bank has requested a budget increase of up to $90m next year to relive "considerable stress and overload" on its staff, it emerged. The request was part of a strategy paper released by the

The department of municipal administration is preparing ground for formation of 20 new municipalities in the state. The government machinery is engaged in preparing a report in this regard

The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) will sanction a loan of Rs 500 crore for execution of rural development scheme in Bihar during the current financial year, official