The Latest Breaking News from World Bank

Non-govt orgs demand WB, TN govt intervention to address long-pending issues in WB-funded housing projects for urban poor. Report highlights unresolved issues, threats of eviction, delays in land alienation. WB urged to propose remedial measures, TN govt to form high-level committee to monitor progress, TNUHDB to put in place transparent…

The State cabinet had approved this project in December last year. OSCRGP has been declared effective from August 11, 2023 by the World Bank.

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As Yunus faces corruption and labour law charges, global figures say country’s only Nobel winner is being ‘persecuted’.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said India’s G-20 leadership has proven effective on several fronts, including the reforms of multilateral development banks and addressing the debt concerns of vulnerable countries.

A World Bank eport says online gig work is growing globally and is creating an important source of employment for women and young people in poorer countries where jobs are scarce

President Biden is using the G20 summit to push for a bigger, better World Bank as an alternative to China's massive lending programs, which have left some low-income countries with massive debt.

All countries have a variety of water resources – some are on the surface, like rivers, and some are beneath the ground. This groundwater provides almost 50% of all global domestic use and 43% of all the water used for agriculture.

There are concerns the World Bank and ADB are giving contracts to low-price bidders who then demand more when budgets blow out

10 students, all SSC exam toppers, will speak at the U.N. headquarters, Columbia University, international youth conference in New York, World Bank headquarters in Washington DC during a 12-day exposure trip.

The Information and Resource Centre for the Deprived Urban Communities (IRCDUC), a non-governmental organisation working for the urban poor, has expressed concern over the recent eviction of around 60 families living for the past several years on the land allotted to them under the World Bank-funded Madras Urban Development Plan…