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Friday, August 8, 2025
TopicWorld Bank

Topic: World Bank

Global growth will begin to recover this year but only modestly, World Bank says

Global growth will accelerate marginally to 2.5% this year from 2.4% in 2019, largely because of stabilisation across a few large emerging economies.

India still has a long way to go on reforms, World Bank says

Rigid land and labour laws and protectionist trade policies are hindering investment, World Bank says.

Indian economy is on a decline. So why are IMF and World Bank’s growth forecasts so high

Analysts from IIM and IIT have looked at former CEC Arvind Subramanian’s data and concluded that India’s true growth rate might have been closer to 4.5%.

Nirmala Sitharaman promises to simplify GST further to boost India’s business ranking

India jumped 14 places to rank 63rd in the World Bank's ease of doing business ranking index, and aims to be within 50 in the next few years.

India moves up 14 places in World Bank’s ease of doing business ranking

The ranking comes at a time the RBI, World Bank, IMF and various rating agencies have slashed the India’s growth forecast.

To prevent climate change, measure development differently

The world still looks at human progress in exclusively economic terms. Depletion of earth’s resources won’t change unless we link climate to economic progress.

World Bank cuts India’s growth projection to 6%, behind Bangladesh & Nepal

According to World Bank estimates for 2019, real GDP growth is projected to be 8.1% in Bangladesh, 6.5% in Nepal.

Global growth is slowing, World Bank chief says in fresh warning

World economy now looks even weaker than bank’s June forecast for 2.6% growth in 2019, World Bank chief David Malpass says.

Migrant workers sent more money to India than any other country last year

The World Bank estimates remittances to low and middle-income countries reached a record high of $529 billion in 2018, an increase of 9.6 per cent from 2017.

Polluted water is hurting global economic growth, World Bank says

GDP growth falls by 0.82% points in regions downstream of heavily polluted rivers, compared with an 2.33% average rate, according to World Bank.

On Camera

Buying Russian oil, misreading Trump—3 points will define India’s next energy strategy

India should have secured greater savings by pressing Russia for prices nearer the cap while sustaining high volumes. This would have preserved strategic autonomy and served economic logic.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Shadow war over India’s defence procurement on social media raises concerns of dodgy & undue influence

One such website has drawn particular scrutiny for spreading fake stories that have upset not only the Indian but also foreign defence firms by falsely attributing misinformation.

Pakistan, Dhaka have played Washington well. Back home, Modi ecosystem has an inner conflict

To protect ourselves from Trumpian diplomacy, first we must introspect the bipolarity within our establishment discourse.