Multilateral funding institutions including the Asian Development Bank (ADB), World Bank, UNDP and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development are jointly working to establish common

Bidding to fight poverty with music and megabits, the United Nations Development Program and Cisco Systems Inc., a maker of data communications gear, have enlisted a dozen popular entertainers to

World Bank officials in New Delhi today said the organisation was ready to accept a study of West Bengal 's financial position by the state government itself for sactioning loans. The Bank,

South Asian nations have asked the World Trade Organisation(WTO) to remove higher customs duties in developed countries, preventing market access to goods from the Third World, and stop piracy of

The UN Development Programme's success stories in India of fighting poverty using participatory approaches figure prominently in the new NetAid site (http:,,www.netaid.org) which was launched amid

The centre signed an agreement with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for schemes to operationalise its Community Based Pro-Poor Initiative (CBPPI) programmes involving a sum of Rs

The United Nations Development Programme(UNDP) has joined hands with mega-information technology professionals for launching a global onslaught on poverty using the time and cost-efficiency of

Results of the economic census of rural households available from eight states indicate a perceptible reduction in the number of families living below the poverty line(BPL). The maximum decline in

Across the world, education reform is now seen as indispensable to economic success. Fine; but remember the children : a

Despite nuclear sanctions, the World Bank committed maximum loans to India in South Asia during the financial year ending June 30. According to a release, India was the largest borrower in the