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AI mania masks economic fissures and rising uncertainty

November 08, 2025 7:50 am

The AI frenzy is propelling markets to ever-new highs. The pressures and problems of the present are being ignored for the (yet untested) promise of the future. Markets may be priced to perfection. But reality rarely follows suit.

P Chidambaram writes: Many perspectives, one conclusion

October 19, 2025 9:26 am

While the quantity of infrastructure built in the last decade has been large (and the amounts spent colossal), the quality has been appalling — obsolete design and technology, falling bridges, collapsing buildings, and new highways that are washed away after the first rain. On quality jobs, the less said the better

Tavleen Singh writes: Why we forever remain a country with immense ‘potential’

October 19, 2025 8:31 am

India is still a long, long way from being a fully developed country despite our Prime Minister selling us this happy but perhaps deluded dream. Dreams are good, even deluded ones.

After World Bank, IMF also cuts India’s FY27 GDP growth forecast by 20 bps

October 15, 2025 2:05 am

Even as it cut next year’s growth forecast, the IMF sees India growing 6.6% in the current fiscal, up from 6.4% it had previously projected. This is lower than the RBI's projection of 6.8%.

October 11, 1985, Forty Years Ago: World Bank on India

October 11, 2025 7:27 am

David Hopper, the World Bank’s top policy official for South Asia, said that the WB would expand its lending to India in the next three years. Hopper added that India was one of the world’s most creditworthy nations and had been following every prudent fiscal policy.

World Bank cuts India’s FY27 GDP forecast to 6.3%, sees reform ‘urgency’

October 08, 2025 5:56 am

50% US tariff expected to weigh on growth next year…manufacturing to export could create the millions of jobs India needs: Bank South Asia Chief Economist

Indus Waters Treaty: A document past its time

September 20, 2025 1:22 pm

What is needed is clear-eyed scrutiny, when challenge is climate change, not engineering rivers

Knowledge Nugget: World Bank report on Indian cities — why it matters for UPSC prep

July 26, 2025 12:35 pm

UPSC current affairs: Indian cities need $2.4 trillion by 2050 for climate-resilient infrastructure, says the World Bank report titled 'Towards Resilient and Prosperous Cities in India'. What are the key highlights of the report? In ‘Beyond the Nugget’, learn more about Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) in India.

World Bank Report: By 2030, Indian cities to create 70% of jobs but may lose $5 bn to floods; need greater autonomy to counter climate risks

July 23, 2025 5:15 am

The 74th Constitutional Amendment Act of 1992 gave constitutional status to Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) to strengthen local self-governance.

India’s FDI challenge: In a world of shrinking investment, capital will come where there is confidence and clarity

July 21, 2025 12:33 pm

India’s fundamentals — demographics, digital depth, and democratic stability —are attractive

Will Ex-PepsiCo chief Indra Nooyi be the World Bank's next CEO?

June 22, 2020 6:05 pm

Ex-PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi is reportedly among the frontrunners for the post of World Bank CEO. US President Donald Trump is considering multiple candidates to nominate for the post and Nooyi's name is reportedly being considered.

World Bank Report says Pakistan's Infant Mortality Rate is Nearly Double of India's

June 10, 2016 8:00 pm

World Bank to aid Rajasthan's energy sector

February 22, 2016 2:47 pm

Jaipur, Feb 22 (ANI): The World Bank would be extending its cooperation to the Rajasthan government in the area of energy sector. World Bank Country Director Onno Ruhl spoke to Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and her cabinet ministers to discuss these issues in detail. Ruhl congratulated Raje on the success of decreasing the rate of defecation in the open. He also stressed on the use of traditional forms of energy while maintaining that the focus was on alternative forms of energy. Chief Secretary C S Rajan, Principal Secretary (Energy) Sanjay Malhotra, State Power Distribution Companies Chairman Bhaskar A Sawant, Organising Secretary Akhil Arora and World Bank Special Project Manager Mandakini Pal were present on the occasion.

India has the same per capita income as Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya: Onno Ruhl

June 23, 2015 10:08 am