Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann on Friday solicited fulsome support and cooperation from the World Bank to further combat the major problems being confronted by the state.
In a significant development, Haryana will soon be home to a global Artificial Intelligence (AI) centre with the assistance of the World Bank (WB).
Both sides discussed issues related to private capital participation in Global Public Goods, Energy security, and Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) reforms.
The bank is expecting Nepal's private sector to contribute more to its growth by taking advantage of the central bank's loosening of monetary policies and easing of regulatory requirements
According to the World Bank, the Indian economy continues to grow at a healthy pace and the country's medium-term outlook remains positive.
India's real GDP growth is expected to be at 6.9 per cent in FY22-23 compared to 8.7 per cent in FY21-22, according to World Bank's latest India Development Update.
The West Bengal Major Irrigation and Flood Management Project is aimed to benefit about 2.7 million farmers in five Bengal districts cultivating on 3.94 lakh hectares with better irrigation services and distinctive protection against annual flooding to mitigate the impact of climate change.
The report titled "Climate Investment Opportunities in India's Cooling Sector" further estimated that by 2050, 45 per cent of the country's peak electricity demand in 2050 is expected to come from space cooling alone.
In recent years, as Pakistan has hurtled from one catastrophe to another, remittances sent by Pakistani workers living abroad have been a source of some small amount of stability.
A war of words has followed the release of the Global Hunger Index (GHI), 2022 which ranked India at number 107 out of 121 countries.
