Asian Development Outlook- April 2025
<p>Weak consumption in the People’s Republic of China will partly offset robust domestic demand in South Asia. Disinflation is expected to continue, driven by lower food and energy prices, along
Economy
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Rich nations told to adopt pro-poor policy
India asked the rich countries to reduce trade barriers and provide greater market access to enable developing countries strengthen their trading activities. In his address to the Development
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Maharashtra seeks Rs. 1,373 cr.
The Maharashtra Government has sought Rs 1,373 crores and two lakh tonnes of food grains from the Centre as drought relief. Talking to presspersons, the Chief Minister, Sushilkumar Shinde said he had
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WB likely to lend $10 b over 5 yrs for infrastructure
The government is in talks with the World Bank for financing a host of infrastructure projects aggregating $2 billion annually over the next five
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'Urban, rural areas should be complementary to each other'
The Lieutenant-Governor of Delhi Vijai Kapoor on Saturday said that urban and rural areas should be seen as complementary to each other and not opponents. Mr Kapoor was speaking after laying the
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Rural development must for a developed India: Advani
Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani has said that the uplift of rural poor must take place side by side with advance in technology to bring India in the category of developed nations. "We need to turn
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Rs 81-cr package for rural development
The Centre announced a Rs 81-crore package for rural development, aimed at the economic uplift of the poor, in Jammu and Kashmir. "This will be over and above the Rs 183 crore allocated for the
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J&K gets Rs 81 cr special package for rural development
Announcing a special package of Rs 81 crores under Rural Development Sector for J&K, the Union Minister for Rural Development, Kashi Ram Rana said that this would be over and above normal allocation
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Gross National Happiness Commission
Bhutan embarked on the path to modernization and development by initiating the first socio-economic development plan in 1961. A decade later in 1971, His Majesty, the Late King Jigme Dorji Wangchuck constituted
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Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies
The Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS) is an independent, non-profit, non-government, policy, research, and implementation institute working on sustainable development (SD) at local, national,
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Rio+20: Begining of a Global Transformation and new multilateralism
<p class="rtejustify"><em>The significance of Rio + 20 does not lie in any document but in the new direction provided to global governance, whose focus should be on patterns of natural resource use, and