The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
The Punjab Development Report 2002 presented to the Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh is a "Vision Paper" a workable model that will reinvent the state through "rejuvenation, quality and management". All this will happen only if there is a "revolution of the minds" at the political, bureaucratic and operational levels.
The Karnataka Chief Minister S.M. Krishna said that the state had achieved the target set in the budget for 2002-2003 despite facing a resource crunch. Mr. Krishna told that although the financial position of the state was tight, its performance was better than other states.
An ethical response to the persistence of hunger and degradation of environment was debated at a public forum, organised by the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation in Chennai. The problems the speakers said could be tackled through dialogue and revitalisation of ethical convictions, which could dislodge mistrust and promote better understanding …
The Centre has identified 132 districts spread across the country, including some affected by left wing extremism, for a backward districts initiative cleared by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs.
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee will offer a special gift to people living in 25 most backward districts in the country by providing for them Rs 15 crore per year. The announcement to this effect will be made on October 2. During the Tenth Plan period, as much as Rs …
Andhra Pradesh, under the Chief Ministership of Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, has earned the reputation of the most happening State in the country. But the facts seem to be somewhat different. According to the "Andhra Pradesh Development Report", brought out by the Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), the …
India will submit proposals on industrial tariff reductions to the World Trade Organisation by the end of December but they may be a far cry from the United States Government's proposals announced. Describing the U.S. position as "drastic and ambitious", the Commerce Secretary, Dipak Chatterjee, said the whole issue of …
"The major issues facing India today is the neglect of primary education and health care. It has not happened just today, but over the years and it has ended up in the poor not getting a fair chance. It is a question of overall priority of public policy and we …
Assam has been listed in the club of four worst performers in so far as utilization of rural development funds under Centrally-sponsored rural development schemes are concerned. The average percentage of rural development fund utilization in the State ranges from 30 to 40, which, according to the Centre, should have …
It would mark the end of an era on Delhi roads. Beginning on Dec 1, the entire public transport system in the Capital would run on CNG with the last of the diesel buses going off the roads. The Blueline buses still running on diesel would either be scrapped or …
In what could open new horizons in the field of animal sciences, the Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University is working on the cloning of an animal sheep or buffalo and is confident of succeeded in its endeavour in two years.
Atal Behari Vajpayee will be happy to learn that Bengal's economic report card looks better than it had appeared one-and-a-half months ago when he wondered what had gone wrong with the state. Bengal ranked second after Gujarat in terms of actual domestic excluding foreign investment in 2002-03.
In the next 25 years, India will see a three fold increase in the demand for water, both for drinking purpose and for industrial demands. However, so far, Andhra Pradesh has not devised ways and means to tap water to store and use it for future needs, according to commissioner …
The East Calcutta wetlands may have been recognised by Wetlands International as "an international ecological site" under the Ramsar Convention, but they are not out of the woods yet. The battle to protect the 12,500 hectare wetlands, which began a decade ago, has received a boost with their inclusion on …
the Supreme Court (sc) has asked the Union government to consider linking the country's rivers within 10 years, advancing the government's own deadline. Earlier, the Union ministry of water resources had filed an affidavit stating that this project, which it claimed would control flood and drought conditions, would be completed …
It's end of the the road for diesel buses in Delhi. From Sunday (1st Dec) Delhi will have only CNG buses plying on its roads. The last batch of about 600 diesel buses will be phased out on Saturday(30th Nov). There are about 7400 CNG buses plying on Delhi roads. …
uard.com, the official website of the Rural development Department was launched on the Internet by Chief Minister N.D. Tiwari, speaking on the occasion he said in the era of information technology, information on various development programmes being implemented in the Uttaranchal would be made available to the general public as …
The West Bengal Chief Minister, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's thrust on economic reforms in the State appears to be facing increasing resistance from the traditional advocates of the status quo ante in Bengal's society. A measure of the growing resistance is available in the way three formidable lobbies have either gone or …
When it comes to the issues of globalisation, development and modernisation in India, the one comparison people are inclined to make involves China. This is because the two countries are extremely large with a rapidly growing population. Also, China has been trying to find its own distinctive path to development, …
