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 …
Traditional water harvesting systems, such as tanks locally called "talabs', are an integral part of every village in Madhya Pradesh. Varying in size from less than an acre to a hundred hectares or more, talabs were built by rulers and communities several hundred years ago using the traditional knowledge of …
The World Bank today signed three agreements for extending $535 million assistance to three projects, aimed at bringing economic restructuring and improving infrastructure in Karnataka.
An elaborate monitoring system has been established in the State secretariat here to ensure delivery of basic services to every village in Madhya Pradesh. This system has been officially described as the largest effort to collect information on development issues. Through the 11-point monitoring system now operating from the State …
Premier Lionel Jospin gave a new tilt to French diplomacy by suggesting that France could play a leading role in channeling the energies of peaceful elements in the anti-globalisation movement.
Leaders of the Group of Eight, their meeting threatened with being overshadowed by violence on the streets, sought to characterise their decisions as important advances for the world.
The UNDP's Human Development Report (HDR) 2001 has maintained its tradition. In the 11 years since the first HDR, it has established its pre-eminence in analysing the nuts and bolts of economic growth. Human development is about much more than the rise and fall of the national income. It is …
The leaders of the world's most powerful countries will retreat to a remote Canadian mountain resort for next year's Group of Eight summit, after rioting eclipsed this year's meeting in Genoa. Jean Chretien, Canadian prime minister, said the summit would be more informal with smaller delegations.
The controversy over the construction of a water harvesting structure in Alwar district's Thana Gazi has thrown up larger issues of the community's right over rain water and the legitimacy or relevance of pre-Independence treaties among former princely states on river sharing of waters. The current dispute over the earthen …
President Bush, joining allies for a summit in this heavily barricaded city, said Friday that protesters threatening to disrupt the talks are hurting the cause of impoverished people around the world. "Instead of embracing policies that help the poor, you embrace polices that lock poor people into poverty and that …
After growing protests, world leaders sat down today for the first time to discuss health, debt and the poor - exactly the topics that demonstrators have complained are ignored by rich countries. But progress was incremental and unlikely to defuse the criticism that the wealthy nations worry about trade first, …
As leaders of the world's wealthiest nations meeting in Genoa tried to put a brave face on the global economic slowdown, the riot police blasted demonstrators with tear gas and water cannon in the streets. By the end of the day, at least one protester was dead.
Prime Minister Tony Blair says people are "far too aplogetic" about demonstrators who disrupt gatherings of world leaders and he has urged the public to turn its back on them. "These guys don't represent anyone," he said, "If the people knew their views, they'd disagree with them. I just think …
President Bush called today for a major change in the way rich nations help poorer countries, proposing that up to 50 percent of aid to those countries from the World Bank and similar institutions be given as direct grants rather than loans for needs like education and health.
President George W. Bush proposed that the big, multinational lending institutions do far more for the health and education of people in the world's poorest countries, and with far fewer strings attached. Laying out his goals for the Group of Eight summit meeting that opens in Genoa, Mr. Bush also …
President George W. Bush launched an ambitious attempt to overhaul the World Bank's funding, proposing to replace up to half the bank's loans with grants to the poorest countries. Outlining his agenda for the Group of Eight Summit of industrial nations this week in Genoa, Mr Bush said grants were …
Cheap, light weapons are helping turn children into vicious warriors in many countries, researchers said in a report released recently at the United Nations. More than 300,000 people under the age of 18 are fighting as soldiers in 34 conflicts, many of them wielding automatic weapons, according to the study …
even as the us reiterated its rejection of the Kyoto Protocol, the European Union ( eu ) has decided to ratify it. "The eu will stick to the Kyoto Protocol,' announced Goran Persson, eu head and Swedish prime minister, at a one-day eu - us summit held at G
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee will soon convene an all-party meeting to discuss the role of MPs in implementation of centrally sponsored rural development programmes. This was stated by Union Rural Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu here on Thursday. Briefing the mediapersons on the outcome of one-day conference of State Panchayati …
India' s policy makers may derive some satisfaction from the fact that it has improved its rank on the basis of the UNDP's human development index by 13 notches in one year, and that it is one of 11 countries that are on track to halve poverty levels by 2015 …
India has moved 13 notches up and is now ranked 115th on the Human Development Index (HDI), according to the Human Development Report 2001 released today by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). India's HDI value improved marginally from 0.563 in 1998 to 0.571 in 1999 and it continues to …
