By Matters India Reporter Bali: The 2018 annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group (WBG) will be held at Bali Nusa Dua, Indonesia. October 12-14. The annual meetings bring together central bankers, ministers of finance and development, private sector executives, civil society, media, and academicsContinue Reading
Aakansha Pande, a US citizen, resided in Singapore,Continue Reading
By KAI SCHULTZ New Delhi: For the first time ever, the Taj Mahal, India’s monument to eternal love, is getting a serious cleaning. For more than 350 years, monsoon rains in Agra, the bustling city where the monument sits, were enough to wash dirt off the structure’s walls. But pollutionContinue Reading
The World Bank has agreed to provide a loan of $98m and a grant of $2m to the Government of India for setting up large scale solar plants in the country. The Shared Infrastructure for Solar Parks Project will use the loan to finance Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA),Continue Reading
More than one third are children susceptible to violence whose births have not been registeredContinue Reading
India ranks second after Malawi among 12 countries where a second grader could not read a word of a short textContinue Reading
Ranchi: A World Bank team is likely to visit Jharkhand in December to study its labour reforms, months after the state ranked third in the country in ease of doing business. Attributing the rank due to the state’s sustained reform initiatives in the past 11 months creating an environment forContinue Reading
Youth is gearing up to become a major priority for the United Nations and other development actorsContinue Reading
