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By Fernanda G Nicola The World Bank, a behemoth of an organisation that provides tens of billions of dollars in aid to mostly developing countries, is in the middle of one of its biggest scandals since being founded in 1944. The crux of the crisis relates to its Doing Business Index, which ranks the ease […]

The World Bank intends to finance the state government towards the cost of the "Women's Empowerment and Inclusive Social Protection Programme" and apply part of the proceeds for consulting services.

Malpass also called on countries with surplus doses to release it for use by developing countries, and for vaccine manufacturers to prioritise the available doses for the developing countries that so urgently need them.

"India's recovery is being hampered by the largest outbreak of any country since the beginning of the pandemic," the World Bank said.

The panel noted that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented public health, economic and social crisis, threatening the lives and livelihoods of millions.

It can help when immediate assistance is critical but there is simply no one-size-fits-all approach to poverty alleviation

"India is bouncing back by opening up activities, starting vaccination and leading in vaccine production," Hans Trimmer, Chief Economist of World Bank.

It is nice that the US is including India in the Afghan initiative but Pakistan’s centrality has been spelt out clearly

The perceptions of erosion of democratic values and backsliding need to be addressed, not dismissed

Hyderabad: Karuna Gopal, president, Foundation for Futuristic Cities, has been conferred the Skoch Challenger Award, a prestigious civilian honour instituted by the Skoch group, on Saturday in Delhi. Her seminal work spanning more than two decades in the area of Urban Reforms & Urban Innovations has attracted the Skoch group, a press release said. Futurist […]

Growth is expected to recover to 5.4 per cent in 2021 as the rebound from a low base is offset by muted private investment growth given financial sector weaknesses.

Hyderabad: The second edition of Indo Data Week for Sustainable Development Goals will be held virtually from November 16 to 22. It will kick start with a NLP BootCamp on Monday. Dr Ashton Sharabiani, a data science manager in the forensic practice at Deloitte and Alireza Rezazadeh, a PhD student at the University of Minnesota […]

"We don't need to look far to see the devastation the pandemic has caused to children's learning across the world,"

World Bank President David Malpass welcome countries that are keeping open their export markets, and also countries that are able to change their subsidy systems in order to allow more food availability.