It's time dealmakers make a mental note of micro-finance, long ignored by high-street banks. The world's largest micro-finance securitisation deal of $4.3m has been completed between ICICI Bank and

India has plenty of potable water but it is not equitably distributed, resulting in floods and drought during the same year in different parts of the country. Suresh Prabhu, a Cabinet minister at the

In its endeavour to support the cause of the ongoing community development programme, the DAV College Managing Committee has decided to adopt 50 villages and slums in Punjab for which a sum of about

The Barkshetri development block of Nalbari district in Assam has taken up three ambitious projects in the 2003-04 financial year for the upliftment of the agro-based people of grater Mukalmua area

UNDP will begin two new programmes on urban livelihood and governance in about 15 citites in India with an aim to support government efforts in poverty alleviation and empowerment of the urban poor.

Four of Europe's major rivers are set to receive a cash injection as part of a

The United Nations Development Programme will begin two new programmes on urban livelihood and governance in about 15 cities in India with an aim to support the government's efforts in poverty

The UNDP will begin two new programmes on urban livelihood and governance in 15 cities in India with the aim to support government efforts in poverty alleviation and empowerment of the urban

A high-level team of the World Bank would visit Madhya Pradesh from February 18 to February 24 for a mid-term review of the District Poverty Initiative Project (DPIP) being implemented in 14 disricts

There is a new mentor for the eradication of poverty