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 …
Around 90% of the Mesopotamian marshlands in Iran and Iraq, known for millennia as the 'Fertile Crescent', have disappeared mainly as a result of drainage and damming, a study by scientists at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) shows.
In Ukraine, citizen involvement was central to meeting the challenge of providing freshwater at an affordable price. As the old infrastructure in the region deteriorated, a new approach was required to make the transition from a centralized model to a customer-focused one, in which consumers pay for services that were …
The rate of global trade growth is expected to more than halve this year from last year's 12.5 per cent, the strongest for over a decade, as a consequence of the US led economic slowdown, the World Trade Organisation said.
G lobal trade in coarse grains in 1995 was to the magnitude of about 132 metric tonnes (mt) and is projected to rise to 175 mt by 2005. About 80-85 per cent of this export originates from industria lised countries, where coarse grains are cultivated for animal feed. In Japan, …
That they are called coarse grains summarises their present status in Indian society. Go anywhere in the country, and you will see a marked inferiority accorded to
The construction work at Tehri Dam Project, which had got stalled from March 31, due to agitation, has been resumed on April 25, Tehri Dam has been raised to two third of the total dam height of 260.5 metre, and the installation of power generating units in the underground power …
Balanced, regional growth in the agriculture sector would be an effective means for alleviating rural poverty, experts deliberating on 'Rural Poverty and Livelihood Security' here today pointed out. They also underscored that the concept of food security should include nutritional security.
The Asian Development Bank has classified a Chinese railroad project linking the cities of Hefei and Xian as part of its anti-poverty crusade. But major beneficiaries of the $300 million loan to finance the 954-kilometer link will be the coal mines at one end of the line and the factory …
The Rajasthan government has flayed the Centre for reducing allocations under rural development schemes. Rajasthan relief minister Gulab Singh Shaktawat criticised the central government for cutting the allocation at a time when the stage is facing one of the worst drought.
Forced to take a detour because of rain in Florida, space shuttle Endeavour and its international crew of seven landed in California on Tuesday after installing a billion dollar robot arm on the international space station.
Ford Motor Co. has created an executive team to find ways to fight global warming, according to a report issued by the automaker Thursday. In a letter included in its second corporate citizenship report, Ford chairman William Clay Ford Jr. wrote that climate change "stands outfrom other environmental issues because …
Many of the poor countries will fall short of international targets for reducing poverty and achieving universal education by 2015, according to new figures released by the World Bank.
The Supreme Court today granted four weeks time to the Bhure Lal Committee to submit its report on other clean fuels other than Compressed Natural Gas (CNG).The Committee failed to submit its finding today on whether ultra low sulphur diesel (ULSD) was a clean fuel or not. The apex court …
The World Bank needs a boost to its budget to combat low staff morale, its president James Wolfensohn said. The bank has recently been rocked by leaked documents showing high levels of dissatisfaction among its staff, with some blaming Mr Wolfensohn for the malaise.
Seeking a tougher approach to emergency bailouts by the International Monetary Fund, the Bush Administration plans to tell the IMF that countries in crisis should move to overhaul their economies before they receive any new money and not afterward, an American official said.
When the World Bank and International Monetary Fund spring meetings open in Washington, D.C., on April 29, 2001, officials will point proudly to the roughly $20 billion in debt that they have promised to cancer since their heavily-protested meetings last year. These promises take a step in the right direction, …
Mike Moore, the director general of the World Trade Organisation, expressed concern about the growing regionalisation of international trading relations, as evidenced by the planned Free Trade Area of the Americas and the European Union's proposed enlargement.
