CHENNAI: The World Bank, which has set up a facility in Chennai for its international back office operations, plans to increase its IT-dependent activ ...

CHENNAI, India, March 29, 2012 – World Bank Group President, Robert B. Zoellick, today paid a special visit to the development institution’s Chennai office to personally deliver a vote of thanks to ...

The World Bank will lend support to the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) to achieve sustainable waste management in the city. At a meeting conducted this week, the World Bank held discussions on ...

Chennai: A high level committee from the World Bank, hailed the low cost hostel ‘Thozhi’, promoted by Tamil Nadu government, for working women in Tambaram and called it a model to be followed ...

In India, tax rates on such products, especially on tobacco and sugar-sweetened beverages, have remained largely unchanged ...

Under pressure from world leaders, development experts and shareholders, the bank opens its spring meeting on Monday, poised for big changes. By David Gelles and Alan Rappeport Mr. Gelles writes ...

The World Bank, created in 1944 to rebuild postwar Europe, is the world’s largest multilateral lender. It funds a range of projects for poor countries and emerging economies, ...