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 …
All the villages in Madhya Pradesh have been covered under e-government. A website Gramsampark has been developed after preparing a database of available resources, basic amenities, beneficiaries of government programmes and public grievances in all the 51-thousands villages of the state. Any information in this regard can be obtained by …
Asking the youth to take up the cudgel of reforms, President A P J Abdul Kalam on Wednesday laid bare a strategy to build leaders for the future, based on his vision of a developed India, 20 years from now. The President unveiled a four-point model for rural development, which …
Finance Minister Jaswant Singh on Tuesday virtually laid the roadmap for the next Budget saying he would give topmost priority to economic reforms including taxation in a bid to push up growth and contain fiscal deficit.
While the Gujarat government has approved the integration of six villages of Channi, Sama, Harni, Bapod and Tarsali into the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) limits, the Vadodara Urban Development Authority (VUDA) has said that the transfer would be possible only if VMC pays them Rs 2.9 crores.
For rural and backward areas, Central Government is going to start Jai Prakash Employment Guarantee Programmes. This programme is going to start in 130 districts within one month.
Karnataka ranks third in the country in the assessment of basic public services such as drinking water supply, transport and education, according to the nationwide Millennial Survey of Public Services in India commissioned by the Public Affairs Committee (Bangalore) recently. The report titled "The State of Karnataka's Pubic Services: Benchmarks …
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh has said that all the centrally sponsored schemes should be transferred to the state along with the fund as each area has different problems and schemes should be formulated according to the local needs. The schemes should be closely targeted and the strategies framed …
Russia's bid for quick entry to the World Trade Organisation is in jeopardy over the country's refusal to open up key sectors of its economy to foreign competition, European Union trade negotiators said. President Vladimir Putin last year made swift accession into the WTO one of his main policy goals, …
BJP workers will tour five lakh villages in the country to assess whether the people living below poverty line (BPL) are actually benefited by the Centrally-sponsored schemes. BJP national vice-president Pyarelal Khandelwal told mediaperson that the workers would visit the villages during its proposed 'Gaon Chalo Abhiyan'.
President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam stressed the need for a ten year vision for development of Arunachal Pradesh in all spheres, on Tuesday. Addressing various sections of the people here at the Golden Jubiliee Banquet Hall, the President said the prospect of 'a prosperous' and 'beautiful' Arunachal Pradesh of tomorrow …
Questions of economic viability and security will be the two major areas of concern before the Congress and the BJP leaders in their first formal meeting to discuss the model of statehood for Delhi on Wednesday.
Statistics are easy to window-dress: showing everything but concealing vital facts. It is true in case of the small-scale industries (SSIs) also. For an average Indian, SSIs are more than 3.4 million registered small-scale units (and an equal number in the unorganised sector); 100 per cent of sports goods exports …
FOR many years now, small-scale industries have been making ugly rounds of courts. From Delhi to Kolkata, Agra to Vellore, the story repeats itself. Rather with more ferocity. Acting on public interest litigations and frustrated at the government"s lackadaisical attitude, the courts are cracking the whip on the industries. So …
Interestingly, this unregulated and technically incompetent industry sector has been exclusively entrusted to manufacture items, which pollute the most in processes like the garments, leather tanning, dyeing and electroplating. "The economic logic behind this kind of reservation is a fraud," says Shreekant Gupta, reader, Delhi School of Economics, University of …
It is clear that small-scale industries (SSIs) can no longer afford to remain dirty and defiant. The same is true for the government. Not only is it a question of the livelihood of 20 million people but also about cleaning up India's environment, which again affects people. What is required …
BEYOND MICRO-CREDIT . Thomas Fisher and M S Sriram . Published by Vistaar Publications . New Delhi . 2002 . Rs 340 Micro finance is fast catching up. As a development strategy, such finance is seen as a toll to address poverty. But there are times when such finance fails …
The financial assistance being provided by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development(NABARD) to the Himachal Pradesh government has proved a boon to rural folk, particularly people living in far flung and tribal areas of the state. NABARD has launched various schemes in the state during the past four …
Bangladesh Communications Minister Barrister Nazmul Huda said steps were taken to procure 200 environment-friendly and technologically developed double decker buses from China by December 31 this year for the capital city.
The Planning Commission, which has approved an annual plan size of Rs 550 crore for Manipur for 2002-03, has asked the state government to expedite submission of progress reports and utilisation certificates in order to facilitate early release of funds from the Centre.
