The World Bank has said that incomplete and partial reforms, particularly in agricultural and labour sectors, have resulted in a slowdown in poverty eradication in poverty eradication in India and

India has witnessed a sharp decline in poverty with the number of people living below the poverty line coming down from 56.44 per cent in 1973-74 to 37.24 per cent in 1993-94, India Rural Development

The US President, Mr. Bill Clinton, pledged to keep pushing for an accord with other members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) for the launch of a new global trade round. In a speech to the World

World business and political leaders kicked of their annual meeting in Davos on the global economic situation with special focus on future of globalisation even as India seeks to project its fresh

To sustain the literacy rate which is expected to reach 70 per cent by the end of this year, a rural library-cum-IT centre with Internet access facility is expected to be set up in every village,

The outgoing chief economist of the World Bank has not relented from his criticism of the international financial community, which he accuses of excluding poor countries from the decision-making

The government has constituted a National Rural Road Development Committee (NRRDC) to ensure 100 per cent connectivity between villages through the construction of all weather roads within a span of

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will finalise a private sector development strategy for India in the first half of this year as active private sector participation is necessary for pro-poor and

The International Monetary Fund further opened its books to public scrutiny, detailing for the first time which governments provide it with resources. The fund has been gradually becoming more open

The World Bank and other leading and agencies are considering drawing up a blacklist of companies found to be paying bribes to win aid-financed