US employers added a surprisingly strong 130,000 jobs last month, but government revisions cut 2024-2025 US payrolls by hundreds of thousands. The unemployment rate fell to 4.3 per cent, the US Labour ...

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Taylor Tompkins has worked for more than a decade as a journalist covering business, finance, and the economy. She has logged thousands of hours interviewing experts, analyzing data, and writing ...

Karachi : Pakistan must create up to 30 million jobs over the next decade to turn its youth bulge into an economic dividend or risk instability and outward migration, World Bank President Ajay Banga ...

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said multiple proposals in the Union Budget for 2026-27 reflect the goal of job creation, key to closing the per-capita income gap with advanced ...

Ajay Banga says youth boom can drive growth with focus on reforms and investment World Bank President, Ajay Banga (left), called on Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Islamabad on February 2, 2026.

Pakistan must create up to 30 million jobs over the next decade to turn its youth bulge into an economic dividend or risk instability and outward migration, World Bank President Ajay Banga has ...

CHENNAI: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday proposed five schemes under the Integrated Programme for textile industry, which is reeling under the US tariffs pressure since 2025, to ...

This came as the bank's Managing Director of Operations, Ms Anna Bjerde, yesterday commenced a three-day visit to Nigeria to discuss how the World Bank Group can best support the country's efforts to ...

NEW DELHI: The Union Budget signals a shift in India’s employment strategy — away from headline job creation numbers and towards building the conditions for sustainable work, with skilling, services ...

In her Union Budget 2026-27 speech on Sunday, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the setting up of a high-powered ‘Education to Employment and Enterprise’ standing committee. This committee ...

The Cabinet meeting of Wednesday, January 28, was briefed on the integrated Labour Management Information System (LMIS), a platform designed to support evidence-based employment planning and drive ...