World Bank Managing Director for Operations Anna Bjerde said the bank is supporting the government turning the growth into jobs and also sustainable development.
Most of these countries are located in sub-Saharan Africa & have an annual per capita income of less than $1,145. Two-thirds of these are stuck in conflict or institutional fragility.
New Delhi’s concerns include need to accelerate development of clean energy for emission reduction targets, changes in population demographics & impact of cross-border terrorism.
Reports & opinion pieces also explore Bangladesh’s ‘unsustainable’ backlog of payments to Adani Power & why India must not ignore advice from international multilateral agencies.
The report has tried to justify its arguments under the guise of ‘Middle Income Trap’. But Atmanirbhar Bharat is not based on the redundant theories being quoted by the World Bank.
Govt policies in middle-income countries like India incentivise small firms to remain small, while bigger firms are not growing fast enough, the World Development Report 2024 says.
Ports are necessarily power-hungry places reliant on fossil fuels. Green ports aim to minimize their ecological footprint by using renewable energy sources and reducing pollution.
India must reduce its overdependence on the US by cultivating alternative markets—concluding the EU FTA, advancing the UK deal, and exploring entry into the CPTPP, the open, rules-based bloc of Japan, Korea, and Australia.
As India-Russia trade decreases, India's April-July exports to the US this year increased by 21% compared to last year & imports from the US grew by 12%.
New Delhi: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Tuesday pushed for a “dual-track” progress for ties with India, separating economic ties from the boundary question,...
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
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