Not educating girls costs USD 15-30 trillion: World Bank
Washington | Not educating girls or creating barriers in their school education globally costs between USD 15 to USD 30 trillion, the World Bank said today....
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Ease of doing business: Prithviraj Chavan questions Maharashtra’s low rank
Nagpur | Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan today expressed concern that the state ranks 13th in the country in the ease of doing business...
‘AIIB is as much a Chinese bank as World Bank is American’
by News Desk
The government seems to have equated China’s role in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) to that of the US in the World Bank. This appears to...
Pak to involve World Bank in the controversial Kishanganga project issue
by News Desk
Pakistan on Sunday said that it has sent a four-member delegation to Washington to raise India’s alleged violation of the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) with the World Bank, state-run...
World Bank claims that 85% of population in India has access to electricity
Days after the government announced electrification had reached every village in India, the World Bank backed the government’s claim saying that India is doing more on electrification...
UK daily names former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan among top contenders to head Bank of England
by News Desk
Canada-born Mark Carney, the current governor of England’s central bank, who was also the first foreigner in three centuries to take up this role in 2013 is...