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Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Looking Through Data Fog: Decode Truth, Lies in India

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Looking Through Data Fog: Decode Truth, Lies in...

India is in the third quintile, along with select countries in South Asia, East Africa and West Africa

17 Nov 2025 10:36 PM IST

India Lifted 171 Million from Extreme Poverty in a Decade: World Bank

India Lifted 171 Million from Extreme Poverty in a Decade: World Bank

Rural extreme poverty dropped from 18.4 percent to 2.8 percent, and urban from 10.7 percent to 1.1 percent

7 Jun 2025 11:41 PM IST

Mohan Guruswamy | Indus Waters: Yawning Gap Between Threat and Reality

Mohan Guruswamy | Indus Waters: Yawning Gap Between Threat and Reality

The geography makes it next to impossible to stop the flow of the waters from the Indus, Chenab and Jhelum. Yet there...

25 April 2025 11:22 PM IST

Aakar Patel | Global and local problems many: Trump has added trade war threats

Aakar Patel | Global and local problems many: Trump has added trade...

The average per person GDP of the world is $13,000, according to the World Bank. Most countries are considerably lower...

10 March 2025 11:03 PM IST

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Shoring up India’s flagging growth: Key govt challenge

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Shoring up India’s flagging growth: Key govt...

To be fair, Prime Minister Modi’s government has harnessed tax revenue well

6 March 2025 10:47 PM IST

India ranked 130 out of 190 countries on the World Banks ease of doing business list. (Photo: Pixabay/Representational)

Ease of doing biz rankings to be released today! Can India move up the...

In the 2017 list, India ranked at 130 out of the 190 countries on the index, just one rank up from 2016's 131.

31 Oct 2017 1:21 PM IST

If you look at institutional loan, then there is a very tiny percentage of farmers who take loan.

World Bank to provide USD 200 million loan for farm sector in Assam

The loan from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, has a 7-year grace period, and a maturity of...

30 Oct 2017 8:53 PM IST

Bharti Airtel Chairman Sunil Mittal

Ease of doing business remains a major concern: Sunil Mittal

Country has moved up marginally to 130 rank in ease of doing business among 190 countries evaluated by World Bank.

30 Oct 2017 11:18 AM IST

The government has been making efforts to further improve the ease of doing business and aims to bring the country in the top 50.

DIPP expects significant jump in ease of doing business ranking

In last three-and-a-half years, India has received FDI of above USD 170 billion.

26 Oct 2017 1:09 PM IST

Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Arun Jaitley (Photo: PTI)

Where's the big idea? FM got optics wrong

Using disinvestment proceeds to inject public finance into private companies is a great idea.

26 Oct 2017 2:21 AM IST

The legal invisibility of unregistered children makes it more likely that their disappearance and exploitation will go unnoticed by authorities, Anne-Sophie Lois said. (Photo: AFP)

Without identity proof, over 1.1 billion people invisible' worldwide

The issue arises chiefly from the distance between people and government services in developing areas.

22 Oct 2017 5:17 PM IST

Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley speaks at a event organized by US-India Strategic Partnership Forum and FICCI in Boston (Photo: PTI)

Jaitley's visit strengthened India-US economic ties: Garg

The Finance Minister was in the United States to attend meetings of the World Bank and the IMF.

16 Oct 2017 5:51 PM IST