Senior bureaucrat Rajeev Topno, private secretary to the prime minister, has been appointed as senior advisor to the Executive Director (ED), World Bank, a personnel ministry order issued on Thursday said. Besides him, Brajendra Navnit who served in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has been appointed as Ambassador and Permanent […]
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‘Urban poor need new social protection nets’, says World Bank economist
The World Bank unveiled a US $1-billion package to introduce a social safety system for the urban poor. In an interview to Zia Haq , Shrayana Bhattacharya, senior economist, World Bank, discusses its nuts and bolts. Edited excerpts: At a conceptual level, can you tell me what is the $1-bn funding all about? […]
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India to gain from more land reforms: World Bank chief
India will benefit a lot if it modernises its land management, streamlines courts and steps up regulation of its troubled shadow banking system, World Bank Group President David Malpass said here on Saturday after meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Malpass’ suggestions on further reforms […]