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3 Oct 19
No major donor country is “doing well overall” when it comes to aid, according to an organisation that has given 21 countries ‘scores’ for the size and effectiveness of their international...
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2 Oct 19
The world’s biggest countries have upped their aid contributions to tackling climate change. Calum Rutter examines whether they are spending the money in the right way and being transparent about...
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30 Sep 19
Health and education spending “will be key” to unlocking the productive potential of Sri Lanka, according to the World Bank.
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30 Sep 19
Public trust in humanitarian aid is being “eroded” as its definition has been transformed over the years, an aid specialist has warned.
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27 Sep 19
World leaders are discussing healthcare for all - whatever a person’s financial circumstances - at a time when the issue is increasingly politicised, says the Open Society Foundation’s Julia...
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27 Sep 19
Governments underspent by nearly 10% of their promised budgets on average over an eight-year period, according to a study.
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24 Sep 19
Coal-fired electricity is to be phased out in Greece and Hungary as the countries’ leaders pave the way for a transition to renewable energy.
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23 Sep 19
Gabon will be the first African country to be given aid to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and protect its forests, in a move to fight climate change.
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20 Sep 19
Global growth will slow to 2.9% in 2019 and 3% in 2020 because of the trade war between China and the US, and uncertainty caused by the UK’s departure from the EU.
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17 Sep 19
Millions more people are predicted to be living in extreme poverty by 2030 than was previously thought.
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17 Sep 19
A slowdown in the Icelandic economy should spur the country on to diversify its economy, the OECD has said.
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17 Sep 19
OECD countries increased funds directed towards tackling climate change by 21.5% between 2016 and 2017.
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16 Sep 19
Namibia’s economy is slowly recovering but public debt “remains on a rising path”, the International Monetary Fund has said.
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16 Sep 19
Reducing health inequality across Europe would produce financial benefits to countries of between 0.3% and 4.3% of gross domestic product, a report from the World Health Organization has said.
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13 Sep 19
The UK government must do more to ensure departments better understand how to spend aid more efficiently, a watchdog has found.
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12 Sep 19
Wealth created in the digital economy is “highly concentrated” in the US and China, with the rest of the world – especially Latin America and Africa – trailing “considerably far behind”, the United...
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11 Sep 19
Women holding a tertiary degree earn a quarter less than their male counterparts across the world’s leading economies, new OECD analysis has shown.
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10 Sep 19
Action to fight climate change could yield economic benefits for countries in the Asia-Pacific region, a conference was told.
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10 Sep 19
The design of taxation policy has a vital role in promoting international sustainability, the president of CIPFA has told management accountants in Sri Lanka.
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9 Sep 19
The African Development Bank’s Anne Valko Celestino and Elisa Desbordes-Cissé ask if the world is ready to be gender equal in leadership.
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2 Sep 19
Climate change represents an “immediate emergency” to development and stability in ‘atoll nations’ and their economies, the president of the Asian Development Bank has warned.
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30 Aug 19
The world is failing to provide safe water for the planet’s poorest communities by not investing enough and not deploying subsidies equitably, according to two global institutions.
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29 Aug 19
A UK government scheme to “turbo charge” private investment in developing countries’ infrastructure projects has been criticised as making an “opportunity” out of human suffering.
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23 Aug 19
Economist Abdalla Hamdok has been sworn in as prime minister of Sudan, and promised to solve the country’s economic crisis and end violence.
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21 Aug 19
Poor water quality has reduced economic growth in some areas of the globe by a third, according to the World Bank.