Trade and development report update: April 2024
The report forecasts global economic growth to 2.6% in 2024, barely above the 2.5% threshold commonly associated with a recessionary phase. The report says the prevailing focus on inflation overshadows
Economy
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The difficult art of governance
A logjam appears to have set in the process of strengthening up of democratic institutions at grassroots level as the much talked about Panchayati Raj institutions are not making much headway on
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'Steps to ensure regular GP meets soon'
Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister MY Ghorpade today said the government would take steps to ensure that all gram panchayats held meetings at least once in three months. He was speaking
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Rs 44.66 cr for Kanpur district plan for 2003-04
The Uttar Pradesh State Government has allocated a sum of Rs 44.66 crore for the district plan for the year 2003-04 which is 0.36% less to the proposed 44.82 lakh
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Pvt sector third in China's booming economy
Private sector in China has become the third "engine" of the country's fast-paced economic growth behind the state-owned and collective economies, the National Bureau of Statistics has said.
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Build safeguards
Prime Minister A B Vajpayee's call for channelisation of household savings into the capital market is in tune with the changing requirements of the economy, which is on the ascending mode of reforms.
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Rajasthan refutes charge
The Rajasthan Government has denied charges of underutilisation of Central funds for rural development by the state. The charge of non-use of funds by the Union Minister for Rural Development, Shanta
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Greater role of private sector proposed
As per Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's promise of enabling India join the league of developed nations by 2020, the Planning Commission on Thursday detailed its report on "India Vision 2020."
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Selling a dream: Plan Panel says no poor, illiterate, unemployed by 2020
With General Elections just a year away, the government would like the people to believe that thanks to its policies, by the year 2020, there would be no
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Centre to review rural development programmes
The Centre will review the progress of the rural development programmes sponsored by it with the States at a national conference here with special focus on non-performance and under-utilisation of
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Kerala to focus on infrastructure, reforms
The Kerala Governor, Sikander Bakht, highlighted the Government's plans for major infrastructure development projects in agriculture, fisheries, transport and communications and other sectors.