The 2020 Human Capital Index update includes health and education data for 174 countries — covering 98 per cent of the world’s population — up to March 2020, providing a pre-pandemic...

The irony could not have been starker. Late last month, the World Bank announced that it had decided to pause the publication of its closely-watched Ease of Doing Business report because of ...

The Modi government’s spiel about why India was an attractive destination for FDI lay in shreds with the World Bank pausing publication of its “Doing Business” report to probe data c...

World Bank is likely to revise its earlier projection of a 3.2 per cent contraction in the Indian economy because of the spread of the coronavirus and a deterioration in the financial sector and globa...

The Mamata Banerjee government has started discussions with Nabard (National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development) and the World Bank to secure a loan of Rs 2,000 crore to undertake permanent re...

Global investors will closely watch the performance of the Indian administration in addressing the challenges faced in the World Bank’s Doing Business ranking amid the global geopolitical tensio...

The Indian economy is slowing down discernibly. Data released recently indicate that a number of organizations, including the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Reserve Bank of India, th...

 The nationwide lockdown in India, which started about a month ago, has impacted nearly 40 million internal migrants, the World Bank has said.The lockdown in India has impacted the livelihoods of...

The junior Union home minister, Nityanand Rai, recently rolled out interesting data in Parliament in response to questions on issues such as the progress in the fencing of the Indo-Bangladesh border a...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said India will soon announce fresh relief measures and economic stimulus to help the poor and industry fight the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.Particip...