The World Bank has retained India’s GDP growth forecast for the financial year 2023-24 at 6.3 per cent, but noted that the country continued to show resilience against the backdrop of a challenging global environment.
India has come out of the pandemic relatively stronger, said World Bank chief Ajay Banga, who is currently in India, and noted maintaining the momentum in economy will be the best way to tackle poverty and buoy growth.
More than 3,50,000 students will benefit annually from the project's assistance of 275 government-run technical institutes over the course of the next five years, the US-based multilateral institution said in a statement.
Taking to Twitter, Malviya said, "You, Mr Chidambaram, seem to be living under a rock or intentionally lying. The same World Bank (India Development Update dated Apr 1, 2023) report you have quoted talks about the resilience of India's growth, even in the face of global slowdown... India gro
"According to the World Bank, the five-year average growth of the Modi government (2019-2024) will be 4.08 per cent Even the sequential annual growth rates after the Corona-affected year show a declining trend The only one boasting about the growth rate is the Government," Chidambaram tweete
According to a release by World Bank on March 3, this combined financing of USD 1 billion will support India's flagship Pradhan Mantri-Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission (PM-ABHIM), launched in October 2021, to improve the public healthcare infrastructure across the country.
India's October inflation dropped to 6.77 per cent, from 7.41 per cent in the preceding month, mainly due to easing prices in the food basket, though it remained above Reserve Bank's comfort level for the 10th month in a row.
That puts its inflows far ahead of Mexico (USD60 billion), China (USD51 billion), the Philippines (USD38 billion), Egypt (USD32 billion) and Pakistan (USD29 billion), positioning the country to retain its spot as the world's top recipient of remittances. Such foreign remittances make up almo