Tag: World Bank
In its first projection on India post-demonetisation, the World Bank has lowered the country's GDP growth estimate for this fiscal to 7 per cent, from its earlier estimate of 7.6 per cent made in June last year.....
India has signed a $201.50 million financing agreement with the World Bank to improve the quality of technical education in the country.....
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will on Wednesday leave for a five-day visit to the US to attend the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, an official said.....
Falling for the fourth straight session on Tuesday the market continued its southward journey with the Sensex losing 94 points to close at 29,319. weighed by weakness in global peers after unexpected UK election announcement. Investors were also worried after prediction of monsoon at lower band of normal monsoon and on higher probability of El Nino. ....
Financing for development is the key to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the guideline to end poverty by 2030, the BRICS economic grouping told a UN meeting in USA . ....
The World Bank has pledged to give $6 billion in credit to Bangladesh over the next three years.....
The World Bank needs to decide the issues of Selective Capital Increase (SCI) to reflect the increasing weight of Developing and Transition Countries (DTCs) and General Capital Increase (GCI) to expand its annual lending, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said.....
The International Monetary Fund on Monday reaffirmed that India's economy is projected to grow by 7.4 percent in the next fiscal year, regaining the rank of the world's fastest growing large economy. ....
The Indian Goods and Services Tax (GST) system is among the most complex in the world with not only one of the highest tax rates but also one of the largest number of tax slabs, the World Bank has said. ....
The global economy is on track to shrink by 5.2 per cent this year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the deepest recession since the Second World War, the World Bank Group said in its latest Global Economic Prospects. ....