The Global Development Finance 2010: External Debt of Developing Countries provides comprehensive data from 128 developing countries showing the impact of the financial crisis on their access to international capital flows.

Concern that underfunded and weak health systems are impeding the achievement of the health Millennium Development Goals in low-income countries led to the creation of a High Level Taskforce on Innovative International Financing for Health Systems in September, 2008. This report summarises the key challenges faced by the Taskforce and its Working Groups.

Finance Commission Suggests Rs 3,000-crore Fund For States Protecting Forests
Surabhi NEW DELHI

BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has sought enhanced grants from the Thirteenth Finance Commission (TFC) for heritage conservation and development of tourist infrastructure in Orissa as tourism has become one of the major sources of employment generation.

This paper attempts to analyse the pattern and determinants of fund utilisation under the Members of Parliament-Local Area Development Scheme by the Lok Sabha mps. It indicates that there are political business cycles in spending by mps.

UPA

The Centre has decided to declare the entire Bundlekhand region, the theatre of recent Congress-BSP political rivalry, as a

The government of India has shifted from cash payment of wages under the renamed Mahatma Gandhi Employment Guarantee Scheme to settlement through bank accounts. This has been done in order to prevent defrauding of workers and to give them greater control over their wages. Has this been achieved after the switch?

Global Economic Prospects 2010: Crisis, Finance, and Growth

Over the last couple of decades there has been a huge swelling in the
importance of the financial sector in the world economy. Investors now
demand the same elevated returns in all economic sectors

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