India’s Achilles\' heel is likely to be the inefficient use of natural resources and growing pollution levels read more

Pakistan is seeking help from multiple lenders like the IMF, the World Bank and the ADB to overcome a ballooning balance of payments crisis. read more

With this, multilateral lenders like the IMF, the World Bank and the EU may continue downgrading Pakistan, making its financial situation more precarious. read more

Almost every agri-category needs to know how to adequately market their produce to realise the best prices. Yet the farmer-to-consumer relationship has not been harnessed in ways that could benefit the former. Policy makers must ask what interventions... read more

In its Global Economic Prospects report, the World Bank also said growth rate is expected to remain the same for the next two fiscals. read more

When the goals are shared and the definition of success and path forward are clear, public-private partnerships become a powerful tool in moving agendas from promise to impact read more

The Jammu and Kashmir government is planning to conserve filatures of the silk factory or Resham Khana, which have remained defunct for the past three decades, to revive cultural tourism and showcase the state’s glorious past. read more

While the ANC government has lifted more than 2 million people out of poverty, improved access to basic services and rolled out an impressive social-assistance program, South Africa’s high unemployment rate, currently at 27 percent, remains the single... read more

The United Nations’ International Telecommunications Union estimated 107 mobile cellular telephone subscriptions per 100 inhabitants in 2018, which basically means more mobile phones than people. read more

Ivanka Trump said her father raised the job as “a question” and she told him she was “happy with the work” she’s doing. read more

The World Bank said in its Migration and Development Brief “a flooding disaster in Kerala likely boosted the financial help that migrants sent to families”. A total of 483 people were killed by the floods that hit the state in August. read more

India was followed by China (USD 67 billion), Mexico (USD 36 billion), the Philippines (USD 34 billion), and Egypt (USD 29 billion), the global lender said. read more

The selection of Malpass by the bank’s board of directors followed an “open, transparent” nomination process in which citizens of all membership countries were potentially eligible, the bank said in a statement. read more

Reviewing the process by which urban population is counted, allocating more seats in Lok Sabha and strengthening local governments are steps that need to be undertaken to make our cities engines of growth. read more

Details about the Indian economy would be revealed in the upcoming World Economic Outlook (WEO) survey report to be released by the IMF ahead of the annual spring meeting with the World Bank next month, he said. read more