According to an Indian embassy spokesman here, Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha discussed economic and financial relations between the two countries at his meeting with US Treasury Secretary Paul H O'Neill on his arrival in Washington on Friday. The spokesman said Sinha also extended an invitation to O'Neill, which the latter accepted. According to the spokesman, also high on the agenda of the talks was US trade and investment in India in the context of the second- generation economic reforms being implemented by the latter. Sinha is in Washington to attend the World Bank and International Monetary Fund meetings. It is possible.
More growth is needed to find a decisive breakthrough against poverty.