Commerce and trade ministers of the G-15 group of developing nations will be meeting here on August 17-18 to discuss WTO-related issues.The meeting will be a follow-up to the summit of the heads of

The Planning Commission will organise a two-day workshop to identify core contents and indicators for the inclusion in the national human development report(HDR) being prepared on the lines of United

Under pressure from the US and its allies ovoer the Pokhran nuclear tests, World Bank lending to India registered a massive decline from $1.068 million in 1998 to $400million for the fiscal 1999,

As many as four million of the 12 million children in Britain are living in poverty, the institute of fiscal studies, the economics think-tank, has said in a

After China, India would be the fastest growing country in the world during 2000, the last year of the millennium, says Merrill Lynch. The July issue of its monthly publication Global Economic Trends

The most that can be said of the agreement to split the leadership of the World Trade Organisation between the two candidates is that it ends long, damaging and unseemly dispute that should never

A team led by the Additional Solicitor-General of India, Mr. Kirit N. Raval, has left for Geneva to present India's arguments before the appellate body of the World Trade Organisation(WTO) in the

The globalisation of economy embarked upon in India may aggravate poverty and increase the supply of child labour in the market, if it affects the income distribution in an adverse fashion. This

The world's 200 riches people have doubled their wealth in just four years, and the assets of the three richest families now exceed the combined gross national products of all the least-developed

India's position has gone down by two notches in the ranking of world competitiveness, according to the Swiss-based World Economic Forum (WEF). The country stood at the 52nd position this year