Tourism in Rajasthan will get a major boost with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) clearing a Rs 15.3 billion assistance project to improve urban infrastructure in popular tourist destinations in the

India and the United States pledged to reduce impediments to bilateral trade and investment and expand commerce, especially in the emerging knowledge-based industries and high-technology areas. A

The World Bank and United Nation's Development Programme(UNDP) are at loggerheads over the strategy to be pursued for executing poverty-alleviation programmes in Andhra Pradesh. The latter is the

A United Nations special assembly on poverty reduction ended at the weekend with a pledge to halve the numbers living in extreme poverty by 2015, but few firm commitments on policies for achieving

Jubilee 2000, the debt relief campaign, launched a report accusing leaders of industrialised nations of failing to keep their promises. It says only $15bn in relief will be delivered by the end of

The 11 th version of the Human Development Report(HDR), for the year 2000, has just been released by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). In recent years, HDRs have had a thematic focus and

Following the directives of Chief Minister Ram Prakash Gupta, stte's rural development department has fixed target to bring 3.75 lakh families over the poverty lime in the year 2000-2001 through

There is one school of thought which maintains that the Finance Minister, Mr. Yashwant Sinha's 2000-01 Budget has followed the dictates of the World Trade Organisation, the implications being that

China kept up the momentum in its drive to enter the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on Tuesday, signing a deal with India and holding a second day of crucial negotiations with the European Union

Several former world leaders condemned the mindless growth in nuclear armaments and the developed nations' apathy towards the need for sustainable development patterns at a meet organised by the Tata