The 11th Finance Commission has suggested ways to build up financial resources for the working of Panchayati Raj

The UN, the World Bank, the IMF and the OECD jointly issued their interim report which makes bleak reading. In 1998, 1.2 billion people were in dire poverty throughout the world. This is the same

The World Bank will extend financial assistance to the tune of Rs 500 crore to the State Government for the conduct of District Poverty Alleviation Programme in Madhya Pradesh. An official Press

Caught in a vicious cycle of poverty and hunger, the Lambada tribals are again selling off their

There is little need to look beyond the budget allocations to see that education and health remain minor issues for the Centre. The total health and human resource development budgets are Rs 5,852

Seattle came to Davos after all. The 30th World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting of 2000 has made it clear-both as a concept and in term of actual violence-that sentiment against economic

Barely a fortnight after publishing its World Development Report, the World Bank has released another big study on growth and poverty. The new study, no less than its predecessor, is a harmful muddle

Attacks by NGOs have ironically given rise to a backlash by some World Bank members against greater openess and transparancy. The problem came to a head last month. World Bank staff proposed that

Delhi has topped the seven northern states in terms of productivity of labour and capital. It also has the second lowest cost of capital among the states in the region. This was stated in the Annual

The Rajasthan Government has amended its Panchayati Raj law by issuing an ordinance barring a candidate from contesting in more than one constitutency in the panchayat