Full Coverage: Economy

29.05.2006 THE strategies for poverty alleviation and development followed by the countries in Asia and the Pacific region have high relevance for Bangladesh where more than 80 per cent of its people have a rural existence and the majority of them remain below the poverty line. An opinion by Mustafa Jasim Ahmed.

29.05.2006 India's prime minister pledged on Monday to fight poverty and share the wealth of economic success as his government nears the halfway mark of its first term, but said he would not do so at the cost of strong growth.

24.05.2006 Pakistan's new budget for the coming financial year which is due to be presented on June 5 has prompted a sharp divide between supporters and critics of the country's economic direction.

24.05.2006 The slum population in Dhaka has doubled in a decade to reach 3.4 million in 2006 from only 1.5 million in 1996 following heavy rural-urban migration, according to a recent study.

24.05.2006 India's deficient infrastructure, including roads, power plants and ports, cuts economic growth by as much as two percentage points each year, Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram said.

22.05.2006 This presentation by by Scholl of Information School at Washington University revleas interrelationships across the disciplines of information sciences, sociology and public administration.

16.05.2006 The rapid growth of ChinaÂ’s and IndiaÂ’s economies is expected to change the global landscape completely by 2050. The problem is their pattern of growth is not sustainable, opines Arun Maira.

11.05.2006 The Indian information technology enabled services (ITeS) industry is poised to touch US$ 26 billion by 2009-10 and US$ 10 billion by 2006-07, according to credit rating agency ICRA.

09.05.2006 With over 1bn Internet users and 2bn mobile-phone users worldwide, and continual progress in most qualitative indicators of technology-related development, the world in early 2006 may be proclaimed ever more “e-ready”.

08.05.2006 Clearly, it is still too early to celebrate India's population or to look on it as an asset in its quest for economic greatness. It continues to pose problems. Whether India will ride the demographic wave or get swamped by it depends on how swiftly the government moves to improve the quality of India's children today and those yet to be born.

03.05.2006 A one-day workshop on "Gender, ICTs and Development" will be held in Manchester on Tuesday 6th June.