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The World Bank’s current program in India consists of 83 lending operations. Of the $18.2 billion in commitments , $17.5 billion is from IBRD, $0.6 billion is from legacy IDA – the Bank’s soft lending ...
India is now a leading nation in income equality. World Bank data shows India's Gini Index is better than many major ...
Inequality in India has come down significantly between 2011-12 and 2022-23, making it the fourth-most equal country globally ...
The World Bank's New Delhi Country Office staff share a vision and a set of values that are at the core of their work: Bank that assists clients to conceive, prepare, and implement their own policies, ...
India has an opportunity to cash in on global companies' efforts to build factories outside China, the new World Bank president said on Wednesday, as firms seek to diversify their supply chains.
Recent World Bank data reveals a significant decline in India's extreme poverty rate, dropping from 27.1% in 2011-12 to 5.3% in 2022-23, lifting nearly 270 million people out of extreme poverty.
NEW DELHI, June 30 (Reuters) - The World Bank said on Friday it has approved $1.5 billion in financing to accelerate the development of India's low carbon energy sector. The financing will help ...
Check these World Bank funded projects of 2019 in India. 1. World Bank Signs Agreement to Help Improve Chhattisgarh’s Public Financial Management Systems. The Government of India, ...
The World Bank has come under fire during the visit of president Wolfensohn to India, after the multinational lending agency seemed to change its stance on the dam project it had earlier declined to ...
The World Bank on Wednesday (April 23, 2025) lowered India’s growth forecast for the current fiscal by 4 percentage points to 6.3% amid global economic weakness and policy uncertainty. In its ...