Giving an economic content to his visit to the US in the midst of high-profile diplomatic engagements, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met World Bank President Robert Zoellick and top American CEOs in the backdrop of the financial meltdown that has kept the Bush Administration on its toes.
The Tamil Nadu Irrigated Agriculture Modernisation and Water-Bodies Restoration and Management Project is designed to modernise irrigation systems covering over 600,000 hectares in 63 selected sub-basins throughout the state.
The World Bank assistance will be utilised for converting 6,372 km of one-lane highways to two-lane, out of the total of 19,702 km of single lane highways in the country.
The IFC Global Corporate Governance Forum has signed an agreement with the Reuters Foundation to encourage these journalists and help them report on governance more effectively, the two organisations said.
Former poll strategist Prashant Kishor's Jan Suraaj expressed disappointment over its poll debacle in the Bihar assembly elections, attributing the NDA's victory to cash transfers to women.
'Re-electing Jim Yong Kim will allow the World Bank to continue to build on important initiatives and reforms.'
Bandhan Bank has filed a draft red herring prospectus with Sebi for an IPO of up to 119 million equity shares, with face value of Rs 10 each.
The beautiful twinkling Christmas markets that come up across the world, as December begins, allow you to step into the magic Christmas.
In its reply to the World Bank's allegations of corruption in five health projects worth a total of $ 568 million, the Indian govt has sent a report denying the charges. The report said World Bank has misunderstood protocols and has not provided evidence to substantiate the charges. The Union Health Ministry has said that the report erroneously created an impression that the health sector delivery system is beset with fraud and corruption. It has also damaged its credibility.
The World Bank is likely to sanction a reform-linked loan of Rs 16,000 crore (Rs 160 billion) to the UP government. The loan, called "UP Development Policy Loan", is in an advanced stage of negotiation and likely to be credited to UP in the current fiscal. The loan will help the state government retire costly old debt, which will reduce the annual interest burden by Rs 700 crore (Rs 7 billion).
CPGRAMS -- an online platform available to citizens 24x7 to lodge their grievances to public authorities on service delivery -- has existed for close to two decades. But it has never been this active, points out Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
With the Japanese government taking a lead in funding the megapolis' many signature infrastructure projects, the World Bank has evinced interest in funding the proposed Charkop-Dahisar and Wadala-Teen Hath Naka Metro projects.
WCP Mauritius Holding, an investment vehicle promoted by former World Bank president James Wolfensohn, has bought a minority stake in India's ethnic wear company Fabindia for about $11 million, a Financial Times report said.
In a statement on Wednesday, World Bank said that its President Robert B Zoellick has announced that he would step down at the end of a five-year term in which a transformed Bank played an historic role during the global economic crisis, using record replenishments to provide more than $247 billion to help developing countries boost growth and overcome poverty.
Sources close to Mohamed Mushin say he regrets the indiscretion of purchasing the shares that he did, and even though it was perfectly legal, it gave the perception of conflict of interest, that his buying them under the Friends and Family IPOs seemed as it was a quid pro quo by the two companies that had secured handsome Bank contracts.
A report prepared by World Bank in coordination with Chinese experts said China has reached a 'turning point' in development but it could still emerge as the world's largest economy before 2030 if it carried structural reforms.
In the face of burgeoning forex reserves at over $93 billion, the government has quietly prepaid $1.4 billion worth of costly foreign loans to World Bank and Asian Development Bank.
The executive directors of the World Bank unanimously selected Robert B Zoellick to succeed Paul Wolfowitz, effective July 1, 2007, as the 11th President of the Bank for a five-year term.
World Bank on Monday said its lending in India is estimated to increase from its current annual average of $2.5 billion to an average of $4 billion over the next two-three years.
The World Bank now projects Gross Domestic Product growth of 11.3 per cent in 2007, but below 11 per cent in 2008, the World Bank's China Quarterly Update said.
India has emerged as the 12th wealthiest nation in the world with its GDP touching $785.47 billion or Rs 35,34,615 crore in 2005, the World Bank said.
Starting a business in India has become much easier in the last two years.
With this India will continue to retain the position of being the fastest growing emerging economy. And by 2021, its growth rate is projected to be 1.5 per cent more than China's 6 per cent.
The rankings are based on 10 indicators of business regulation that track the time and cost to meet government requirements in business start-up,operation, trade, taxation, and closure.
China remained a developing country facing many challenges, including alleviating poverty in rural areas, despite emerging as a second largest economy of the world, World Bank President Robert B Zoellick has said.
In all, worldwide remittances -- including those to high-income countries -- will reach $406 billion in the current calendar year.
The World Bank on Thursday projected Indian economy to grow at 8.7 per cent this year but estimated that the high growth would moderate in 2008 due to tighter financial and fiscal conditions.
Global warming can cause extreme floods and droughts and can mean snowfall is replaced by rain, with higher evaporation rates.
N Chandrababu Naidu, when he was chief minister of the state, had sought funding for the project in 2015, but the Bank had deferred its decision in the light of the alleged government excesses.
United States nominee Jim Yong Kim was on Monday chosen as the next president of the World Bank, an appointment that continues the longstanding tradition of an American leading the Washington-based institution.
Arvind Subramanian was appointed CEA in October 2014 and got a year's extension in September 2017
This arrangement, while facilitating a $4.3 billion increase in support to India, is designed to maintain IBRD's net exposure within the limit of US$ 17.5 billion established by the IBRD for lending to a large, highly creditworthy borrower like India.
Ranks 132 among 185 countries; position for 2013 unchanged from 2012.
The World Bank has approved the Second Andhra Pradesh Economic Reform Loan worth $220 million, to back the state's efforts to achieve better socio-economic outcome and reduce poverty.
India can return to 9 per cent growth if the government removes uncertainties in policy-making and go for early implementation of some of the long pending tax reforms, a senior World Bank official said on Wednesday.
'Mob fury has become very common these days. And these attacks are all planned very well.' 'In all these attacks, you see that they have a very clear cut plan to make the victims as the oppressors and the guilty.' 'The attackers escape and they face no consequences as they have the backing of some political leaders.'
India attracted a major chunk of the record $40.1 billion capital that flowed into South Asia in 2006, but restrictive policies could stunt investment growth leading to slower economic expansion, the World Bank warned in a report.
