The World Bank group has been publishing annually 'Doing Business Report' since 2004.
International Finance Corporation, the private sector financing arm of the World Bank Group, is likely to invest $500 million in India this fiscal. \n
The World Bank condoled the Mumbai blasts and expressed "deepest sympathies" to the families of the victims. \n
International Finance Corporation will put in $200 million and HDFC will contribute $600 million to create $800-mn corpus for affordable homes
Even as the World Bank has revised India's growth figures by 0.4 percentage points as compared to its January forecast, India remains the fastest growing major economy in the world, the World Bank officials said.
The International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, will invest $15 million in a foreign currency convertible bond issued by Ballarpur Industries Limited.
The 2015 World Bank group's Doing Business index ranked India at 142, down from 140, which it was the year before.
The International Finance Corporation will provide a $50 million loan to the leading automaker Tata Engineering to support its ongoing investment programme and new product development initiatives.
China is estimated to grow at 6.7 per cent in 2016.
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IMF chief Horst Kohler, who is in Dubai to World Bank Group and IMF meetings, did not comment on the issue of BPCL and HPCL divestment.
International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, will provide a loan of $50 million to Larsen & Toubro, one of India's largest engineering and construction companies.\n\n\n\n
Companies stand to benefit in longer term from comparative pricing landscape
Modi said his government is committed to ensuring probity among public servants.
Anti-Corruption Commission rules out graft.
Indian economy is expected to grow at over 7.5 per cent, to overtake China.
Enactment of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code has been instrumental in pushing up India's ranking in the 'Doing Business' report
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The statement said that the global economy is being held back by a shortfall in demand, while addressing supply constraints is key to lifting potential growth.
The plan of UID/Aadhaar-based surveillance does not end with the collection of fingerprints and iris scan, it goes quite beyond it and poses a lethal threat to the idea of India, says Gopal Krishna.
The Pakistani delegation, in its meetings with World Bank officials, insisted on early appointment of the judges and setting up the court.
The founder of the e-commerce firm, which specialises in procurement of industrial products, believes if he plays his cards right, his company could become a unicorn with a valuation of $1 billion in 5 years.
Soon after Prime Minister Modi's assertion, the G20 countries also came down heavily on terrorism.
India alone accounts for more than one-fifth of deaths worldwide of children under the age of five, according to a new UN report released today, which said nearly 6.6 million kids died globally, last year, before reaching their fifth birthday.
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Govt unveils reforms that cuts down time and bureaucracy.
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The local currency opened at 62.20 a dollar from the previous close of 61.93 and immediately touched a low of 62.29 at the interbank foreign exchange market.
Observing that the turmoil in global capital should come as a wake-up call for South Asia, which was the second-fastest growing region in the world in the aftermath of the global crisis, the World Bank said on Wednesday its recent performance has been less stellar, and it has been sustained by potentially volatile portfolio inflows.
In South Asia, the poverty would fall to 13.5 per cent in 2015.
India is on track to register its entire 1.25 billion population using its Aadhaar digital ID.
Other large recipients are China ($64 billion), the Philippines ($28 billion), Mexico ($24 billion), Nigeria ($21 billion), Egypt ($18 billion), Pakistan ($17 billion), Bangladesh ($15 billion), Vietnam ($11 billion) and Ukraine ($9 billion).
In India we have to be careful not to copy any level of dependence on the financial sector and infatuation with the get-rich-quick syndrome, says Jaimini Bhagwati.
For the remaining projects, it is difficult to arrive at an estimate.
The nullifying of the NJAC Act has put the spotlight on the Judiciary. Concepts like transparency, being open to change, leading from front, management of perceptions that were reserved for the Executive earlier are now relevant for the Judiciary as well, says Sanjeev Nayyar.
India has been ranked at 142 among 189 countries in the latest World Bank's "Ease of Doing Business" report, a drop by two places from the last year's ranking.
'The government's proposal to store citizens' data including Aadhaar data under its Digital India initiative on cloud is violative of the citizens' human rights because the cloud is admittedly beyond India's jurisdiction.'
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