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9 Jul 18
Updating the way Official Development Assistance is recorded could change – and even save – lives in some of the poorest places in the world, says Eurodad's Polly Meeks.
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6 Jul 18
The Asian Development Bank will give Bangladesh a $100m grant to help provide basic infrastructure and services for refugees.
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5 Jul 18
The Asian Development Bank has raised €600m to boost climate financing through a green bond.
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5 Jul 18
Poor quality health services are increasing the number of avoidable illness cases and driving up health costs globally, a joint report has warned.
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5 Jul 18
The Asian Development Bank and Thai government have signed a $99.4m loan to help improve the roads in the country’s Northeastern region.
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5 Jul 18
France and Nigeria have signed agreements for $475m worth of financing to help the African country with its development.
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4 Jul 18
Malaysia’s biggest rail project is on hold while the government discusses the cost with contractors as at $20bn it will be nearly double what the previous government had estimated.
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3 Jul 18
Last week’s Fijian budget was a “missed opportunity” to promote gender equality through fiscal policies, a social development adviser has told PF International.
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2 Jul 18
European leaders have struck a deal on how to handle migration within the bloc after finishing marathon talks at an EU summit.
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2 Jul 18
The Bahamas is to shore up the resilience of its public finances to the effects climate change with a $100m loan from the Inter-American Development Bank.
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2 Jul 18
The Asian Development Bank has approved a $60m loan to help improve road development in Mongolia to boost the economy.
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2 Jul 18
Uganda’s social media tax has come into force and is expected to raise billions of shillings in revenue for the government.
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29 Jun 18
The frontrunner in Sunday’s election promises to resurrect a strong state but his enemies say he is a false prophet, writes Gavin O’Toole.
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28 Jun 18
Penny Mordaunt has pledged to help Commonwealth veterans living in poverty through the British aid budget, in a speech at a think-tank today.
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28 Jun 18
Estonians will soon benefit from free public transport after the government agreed to give regional transport centres additional funding, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications has...
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26 Jun 18
If small islands states improved their recovery and reconstruction efforts after natural disasters they could reduce their annual losses by up to 59%, the World Bank has found.
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26 Jun 18
The Asian Development Bank has approved a $300m loan to help support economic reforms in Uzbekistan.
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26 Jun 18
The World Bank has approved a $300m loan to improve healthcare services in Bolivia.
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20 Jun 18
China will give more than $100m in military aid to Cambodia, to be use for “any necessary need”, it has been announced.
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20 Jun 18
Uganda must transform its agricultural sector to drive economic growth and reduce poverty, the World Bank has said.
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19 Jun 18
The UK should give at least £1bn a year to global nature conservation through its international aid budget, a joint report has urged.
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18 Jun 18
The Asian Development Bank has approved a $6.8m grant to help the government of Tonga reconstruct and improve disaster resilience of its electricity network.
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15 Jun 18
The US has released $6.6m to support a United Nations group and a civil defence fund providing relief to those caught up in the civil war in Syria.
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15 Jun 18
Inequality continues to be a challenge to the island nation state of Comoros, despite improved living conditions and lower poverty levels, the World Bank has concluded.
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14 Jun 18
Putting a stop to tax avoidance is key to tackling gender inequality, as countries are missing out on revenue to fund public services, a UK parliamentary group has heard.