The Indian Mountaineering Foundation (IMF) has posthumously conferred the prestigious Nain Singh-Kishan Singh Lifetime Achievement Award on former Border Security Force (BSF)
Under the Extended Funding Facility (EFF) $7 billion bailout programme for Pakistan, it was agreed that a progress review would be done every six months.
A recent IMF report offers key insights for India amid an increasingly debt-laden global economy.
The recent IMF report presents a mixed picture of the global economy: the immediate threat of recession has receded, and inflation is gradually stabilising, yet a new alarm has been sounded on the surging levels of global debt.
The level of uncertainty surrounding the global economic outlook is high, the report noted on Tuesday
According to the new Prime Minister Najib Mikati, his cabinet is formed of specialists who are keen to stop the country's current collapse by dealing with urgent issues, including the negative repercussions of lifting subsidies.
Final approval of the SDR allocation by the Board of Governors requires an 85 percent majority of the total voting power of all IMF members.
The SDR allocation will boost the liquidity and reserves of all our member countries, build confidence, and foster the resilience and stability, according to IMF MD Kristalina Georgieva
Surging reserves can be a double-edged sword as there is a cost to holding them. High reserves will obviously lead to appreciation of the currency and rise in inflation, because capital inflows that result in high reserves are used to buy domestic currency, thereby expanding the domestic monetary base without a corresponding increase in production, and this causes a rise in inflation.
Increasing price on carbon will encourage innovation and transition to renewable energy, clean mobility, and low carbon technologies
