World Bank President Robert Zoellick on Friday called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and discussed funding for the changing needs of the country.
India is set to become the world's fourth-largest economy in 2025, but slow income growth, lack of structural change, and rising inequality highlight the gap between progress and real transformation.
The key question is how much of the latest growth record represents recovery from the 2020-2021 downturn, and what is the sustainable growth rate now, asks T N Ninan.
Indian economy is expected to grow at over 7.5 per cent, to overtake China.
The expert overruled Pakistan's other technical objections.
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The government on Thursday permitted RBI to invest $4.3 billion in special bonds of the World Bank, which would raise the agency's lending limit to India by a similar amount to $21.8 billion for infrastructure investment.
India is the largest client for the World Bank Group.
World Bank has predicted a downward trend for India's GDP in 2008. China to follow too.
"Oil prices are not going to come down. The era of cheap food is over and prices are likely to remain high for at least the next 10 years," World Bank South Asia Region Vice-President Praful Patel told PTI. He said the current situation has 'caught the whole world by surprise' and the crisis was due to a combination of factors, he said.
Ruhl, a Dutch national, was previously the Director for Operations Services and Quality in the South Asia Region of the World Bank, the multi-lateral funding agency said in a statement on Monday.
In its report 'Global Economic Prospects 2010' the World Bank has said: 'Global GDP, which declined by 2.2 per cent in 2009, is expected to grow 2.7 per cent this year and 3.2 per cent in 2011'.
Reforms can be the game changer for poor and help economy goes back on growth trajectory.
The core dilemma remains: Why provide further stimulus to an economy that is already booming at an 8 per cent growth rate? asks Rajeswari Sengupta.
The World Bank would provide loans to India at higher than its existing concessional rates but lower than the market rate.
A World Bank team and experts from the US will visit the floods-affected areas on Saturday to discuss financial assistance and other help to rebuild the infrastructure.
As per the latest government data, India's second quarter economic growth inched up to 4.8 per cent during second quarter (July-September) of 2013-14, well above 4.4 per cent in the first quarter (April-June).
The bulk loan offered to India is for developing its infrastructure projects and to achieve the millennium development goals. Further, part of the loan would be spent in the seven low-income states -- Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh -- to support the poverty reduction programmes.
In the 12-month cycle starting July 2013 and ending June 2014, World Bank had made financial commitments close to $5.2 billion in India.
The Maharashtra government, which is finding difficult to get investors for irrigation projects in the state, has now decided to rope in the International Finance Corporation (IFC), World Bank's lending arm for the private sector.
World Bank is likely to give Mumbai projects Rs 275 crore less, in wake of the appreciation of rupee against the dollar.
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Although risks from advanced economies have eased and growth is firming, despite ongoing contraction in the Euro Area, the pick-up in developing countries will be modest because of capacity constraints in several middle income countries.
Growth projections for 2013-14 has been arrived at by taking into account present internal and external factors.
Money to be used for the Rs 174,000-crore Bharat Nirman programme to develop rural infrastructure.
Empathising with Indian exporters hit by a rising rupee, the World Bank on Monday said government should look at options beyond tax sops to raise productivity and make the industry globally competitive.
India and China will continue to be the focus of the World Bank as these countries represent 70 per cent of the poor in the world, said the Bank president Robert Zoellick. "You've more poor in India than in all of sub-Saharan Africa. So if we're focused on poverty, we have to focus on these countries (India and China)", he told BBC in an interview to be broadcast on Sunday.
BJP leaders say Nitin Nabin's low-profile image has made him a favourite of Amit Shah, who was in search of such a leader to appoint to the top party position -- someone who follows the Modi-Shah line as BJP president without "ifs and buts".
The United States has a moral and national interest in helping poor and struggling countries transform themselves into free and hopeful societies, Bush said.
This will be Jim Young Kim's first visit to India after taking over as President of the World Bank Group last July.
"We have sought assistance from World Bank for 37,000 km of roads as we plan to take up work on these projects soon," Road Minister C P Joshi told reporters after a meeting with a World Bank delegation, headed by its South Asia Region Vice President Isabel Guerrero.
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The race for the top position at the Bank is really heating up.
A World Bank study has virtually questioned the methodology of sovereign rating by the international agencies, saying there was evidence that Moody's such rating had low predictive power for currency crises.\n\n\n\n
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, who is on a three-day visit to India, said a projected five per cent GDP growth in the current financial year was disappointing, but future prospects for the country were good.
Shehbaz emphasised that water was a lifeline for Pakistan, and no compromise would be made on the country's rights under international agreements, as per Geo News.
The World Bank's move came as it told the two countries that it was responding to their separate proceedings initiated under the Indus Waters Treaty 1960.
The downgraded World Bank forecast follows a similar move by the International Monetary Fund, which cut its growth forecasts two months ago
