If all goes well, by 2003 all villages in Gujarat will have the basic amenities of approacth roads, pucca roads from the village entrance to the courtyard, primary schools, electrification and

India and China, by virtue of remaining unscathed in the Mexican and Southeast Asian currency crisis, find themselves included in the new super-club called the Group of Twenty (G-20). It also marks

Robert A mundell of Columbia Univesity in New York today won the Nobel prize for economic sciences for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange-rate regimes. The

The Seattle ministerial conference, scheduled for end-November, is expected to set up a working group each on technology transfer and trade and debt, and undertake a work programme on trade and

The recent visit by the state government delegation led by Gujarat industries minister Suresh Mehta to the United States has made it abundantly clear the the World Bank would not give any new cheaper

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