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World Bank unveils $4.3b
in loans to India
AFP, Washington
The World Bank onhiesday announced 4.3 billion dollars in loans to India, including 2.0 billion for the banking sector, to help strengthen its economy amid the global economic crisis.
The World Bank said its executive board approved loans for projects in five countries, with the loans for India by far the largest.
The four projects worth 4.3 billion dollars to India are "designed to support the government's infrastructure agenda and bolster its economic stimulus program," the Washington-based development lender said.
The bank noted that after a period of high economic growth ■■ which reached 9.7 percent in 2006-07 -- the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008 saw a decline in India's growth rate to about 5.0-6.0 percent in the fourth quarter of2008 2009.
The bank projected a "realistic" growth rate of between 5.5 and 6.5 percent for 2009-2010 for Asia's third largest economy, after Japan and China.
"This is a crucial time to support India," Roberto Zagha, World Bank country director for India, said in a statement.
"While the worst of the crisis seems to be behind us, doubts linger about the strength of the comeback, partly because the strength of the global recovery is uncertain. Today s support will help maintain credit growth and continued infrastructure investments," he said.
Britain to exit recession this year: Industry body
AFP,London
The battered British economy will emerge from a deep recession in the second half of this year, but 2010 will be tough, the Confederation of British Industry forecast on Wednesday.
"The UK economy is expected to emerge from recession through modest growth in the third and fourth quarters of this year, but constraints on demand will ensure that growth in 2010 is fragile," the CB1 said in a statement.
Britain's biggest organisation of employers forecast that gross domestic product (GDP) will grow by 0.3 percent in the third quarter from the previous three months, and expand 0.4 percent in the fourth quarter.
"Near-term economic prospects are brightening," said the major business lobby group.
"A recovery is underway in the global economy, which has been boosted by substantial fiscal and monetary stimuli, and the inventory cycle is starting to turn, both at home and abroad, which is helping to lift production.
"However, the pace of recovery in 2010 is expected to be slow," it added.
The economy will experience anaemic growth of just 0.1 percent in the first three months of 2010, and 0.3 percent in the second quarter, the CBI also predicted.
Russia to relaunch privatisation drive
AFP, Moscow
Russia is to embark on a new programme of privatization, two-and-a-half years after its last major sale of state assets, officials were quoted as saying on Wednesday.
After the chaotic asset sales of the 1990s under the Boris Yeltsin presidency created a class of super-rich oligarchs and a major public backlash, the government has lately preferred to increase its stakes in firms.
But the financial crisis has blown a major whole in the Russian budget, with the deficit predicted to be around 8.0 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2009 and 6.9 percent in 2010.
Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin told the Vedomosti financial daily that with the income from privatization, Russia could reduce its use of reserve funds and cut the volume of planned bond issues needed to make up the budget shortfall.
"In other words, the sum (from privatization) will go to reducing the deficit," he added.
Taiwan export orders post 11th straight fall in August
AFP, Taipei
Taiwan said Wednesday August export orders fell 11.96 percent year-on-year -- the 11th consecutive fall -- as higher demand from China failed to offset plunging US demand for electronics.
Export orders last month totalled 28.29 billion US dollars, the ministry ofeconomic affairs said.
Electronic product orders declined 12.2 percent from a year earlier, it said.
But orders from China, including Hong Kong, which is Taiwan's biggest export market, rose 7.27 percent year-on-year to 8.55 billion dollars.
Orders from the United States -- Taiwan's leading electronics market -- declined 19.27 percent year-on-year while orders from Europe tumbled 21.56 percent from a year ago to 4.77 billion dollars.
In the first eight months of the year, export orders came in at 196.86 billion dollars, marking a 19.95 percent drop from the same period in 2008.