Senior World Bank staff believed the bank was losing public support even before the growing backlash against economic globalisation gathered pace this year, a leaked document has revealed. The

China, the world's fifth largest trading power and by far the largest single market, stood on the verge of admission to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) after 15 years of tough, on-off

The union ministry of rural development has released Rs 14.87 crore for implementation of the Andhra Pradesh rural livelihood projects (APRLP) by the state government during the year

Anti globalisation campaigners claimed victory yesterday after the International Monetary Fund and World Bank proposed cutting the length of their annual meetings next month largely because of the

It is a sorry commentary on the violence threatened by anti globalisation protesters and the inability of the police to contain them that the World Bank and International Monetary Fund are proposing

A large number of non-government organisations (NGOs) across the world will attend the fourth WTO ministerial conference in Doha in November. It will mark a departure from the position held at the

Lokmitra, a pilot e-governance project in Himachal Pradesh funded by National Bank for Rural and Agriculture Development (Nabard), is a replica of Gyandoot project already in operation in Dhar

The marathon negotiations on Chinese membership of the WTO are ending. For the government, the hard part may only now be beginning : a

The World Bank is preparing a detailed defence of economic globalisation ahead of its annual meetings next month, which are expected to be besieged by anti-globalisation protesters. The publication-a

The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund should devote such time as is required to their joint meeting next month in Washington. To do anything less would be a concession to the organizers