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 …
While the Union government is bothered about the high cost of storing surplus foodgrain, groundnut farmers in Anantapur commit suicide. Clearly, measures of poverty need changing. Policymakers must now take into account the time spent by women to collect firewood or water. This distance needs to be shortened as this …
Researchers at the Ohio-based Case Western Reserve University have developed a new technique for getting submolecular information about protein molecules using the Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM). Ordinarily AFM produces a rather fuzzy image of protein molecules. But the researchers used a combination of AFM, genome information and other electron microscopic …
Tiny East Timor, counting down to its independence in a few days, is Asia's poorest country and will need considerable international assistance in the years ahead, the United Nationals said on Monday. The UN Development Programme (UNDP) said in a report that East Timor was Asia's poorest nation in terms …
The Andhra Pradesh state government has finalised a Rs 2,728 crore special package for upgrading over next three years the 19,651 km long rural roads taken over by the Roads & Buildings Department recently.
Ranking human development is always intimidating. And the Indian government has been especially edgy about getting on with the task. It has been suspicious, claim people in the know, with 'human development' as formulated by the UNDP that ranked India below Pakistan in some of its earlier reports. Now, after …
New Delhi has asked Asian Development Bank to make a quantum jump in its lending for developmental and infrastructure projects to make a real dent on poverty in the developing member countries, and pointed out the present small gross assistance from the bank is too meagre to make any tangible …
The Supreme Court today directed the Bhurelal Committee to inquire into the jurisdiction or otherwise of the recent 30 per cent increase in the price of compressed natural gas(CNG) supplied to vehicles in the Capital and submit a report to the court by August.
The Chhattisgarh Government will receive a grant of Rs. 5 crores under the United Nations Development Programme for development in various sectors. The funds will primarily be used in seven sectors, including drafting of ' vision document ' and various policies of the State, preparation of ' human development report', …
The report on "Human Development in South Asia, 2001", brought up by the Mahbub ul Haq Human Development Centre based in Pakistan, manages to revive and draw attention to the debate. Aptly subtitled "Globalisation and Human Development", the report is an indictment of the stagnation in human development in the …
For the year 2001-02, Rs 74.29 crore has been cleared under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana for Punjab and Rs 55 crore has, so far, been released to the state, Minister of State for Rural Development Suhash Maharia told the Rajya Sabha in a written reply today.
The Planning Commission has approved a 50 per cent higher outlay at Rs 12,000 crore for Haryana's 10th Five Years Plan(2002-2007). This is more than what the state had hoped for. The highest allocation of 42.2 per cent is for the social services sector which covers education, healthcare, drinking water …
Taking the concept of "Governance Through Bhagidari " further, the Delhi Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit, today informed that the next focus of her Government would be to improve the infrastructure and functioning of government and government aided schools. Also emphasis would be laid on upgrading the health sector including working …
Haryana's Tenth Five Year Plan (2002-2007) has been approved at Rs 12,000 crore and the annual plan for the year 2002-2003 has also been approved for Rs 2,034 crore by the Planning Commission on Wednesday. The outlay of Rs 12,000 crore approved for the Tenth Five Year Plan (2002-2007) of …
The World Bank and USAID will help India in several infrastructure and developmental sectors to improve the quality of life in the country and support the programmes on a fast track. Union minister for road development M Venkaiah Naidu's received the assurances from the World Bank president James Wolfensohn and …
About Rs 17.17 crores has been spent on development works in Sonepat during the last two-and-a half years to develop this important city of Haryana that falls under the National Capital Region and would have a projected population of 20 lakh by the year 2020.
Nandi Bhandari, "gram pradhan" or president of a remote village in Uttaranchal, has been conferred the best woman panchayat leader award for her outstanding services for the public cause.
Geneticists in the United States and Britain have completed a draft of a mouse genome they are making available on the Internet - a boom to researchers who use the rodent to study human ailments. The data covers about 96 per cent of the genome and will help understand the …
The ministry of urban development has failed to implement Centrally-sponsored programmes as over 3,000 projects, involving over Rs 300 crores, were lying unused with the ministry, state governments and other implementing agencies in all over the country. "The funds were to consists of a mix of selected ad earmarked government …
