The World Bank has offered India up to $US18 billion ($A19.5 billion) in financial support in the next three years, while lavishly praising new right-wing premier Narendra Modi's "ambitious vision" for the country.
Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Party was elected in May with the biggest electoral majority in three decades on pledges of reviving India's sluggish economy.
Speaking at the end of a three-day visit to India, World Bank president Jim Yong Kim told reporters he was hugely impressed with Modi's "comprehensive and extremely ambitious vision for the country".
"I am more optimistic leaving (about India's prospects) than when I arrived," Kim said on Wednesday, following talks with Modi and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to discuss the new government's development priorities.
Modi, 63, "has an extreme sense of urgency", Kim said, as he outlined an offer to India of "financial support worth $15 billion to $18 billion over the next three years" to help lift hundreds of millions of Indians out of poverty.
"His (Modi's) intention is to grow this economy quickly, grow the number of jobs quickly and demonstrate to the Indian people you can do things at scale with great speed," Kim said.
As part of Modi's anti-poverty drive, Kim strongly urged him not to block a landmark world trade deal, due for acceptance by July 31, that would make it easier for goods to cross borders and inject an estimated $1 billion into the global economy.
India has been threatening not to ratify the World Trade Organisation (WTO) agreement reached last year in Bali unless it gets assurances that it can help its poor citizens with food subsidies.
While Modi is pro-business, his government says the trade facilitation agreement or TFA is biased in favour of wealthier nations which assert that food subsidies lead to distortions in global trade.
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