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4 May 16
Climate risk insurance requires a strong and sustained public finance element if it is to reach the poorest people most affected by climate change, a report by Results UK argues.
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4 May 16
Risk financing mechanisms can be used to help absorb some of the shocks and costs of climate change
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3 May 16
The new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has secured another co-financing deal with a well-established counterpart, the Asian Development Bank.
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29 Apr 16
South Sudan has announced the formation of its long-awaited transitional unity government after rebel leader Riek Machar was sworn in as vice president earlier this week.
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29 Apr 16
Africa is blessed with abundant natural resources but plagued by poverty. Foreign investment can help unlock the continent’s riches and transform the lives of its people
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29 Apr 16
The African Development Bank is to loan Botswana $76.2m to support the country’s economic diversification plan.
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28 Apr 16
A $2bn and rising funding gap threatens to hamper the global response to the El Niño weather pattern, the United Nations warned ahead of an appeal meeting earlier this week.
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26 Apr 16
An unprecedented explosion in the working-age population in Asia Pacific risks dire consequences if not properly managed, the United Nations Development Programme has warned.
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26 Apr 16
The European Commission has proposed an additional €414m to alleviate food crises sparked across the globe by a strong El Niño.
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25 Apr 16
India’s government seems “reluctant” to solve its affordable urban housing crisis, with luxury real estate and development projects prioritised over the housing needs of poorer people, a United...
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22 Apr 16
The Asian Development Bank saw record demand for its resources in 2015, according to its annual report, as countries in the region sought to boost sluggish growth, reduce inequality, and tackle...
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22 Apr 16
A new local government institute is to help build the public financial management capacity of local authorities in Rwanda.
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21 Apr 16
The Asian Development Bank is to provide $300m to support road upgrades in Uttar Pradesh, its first ever loan for this purpose to India’s most populous state.
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20 Apr 16
South Sudan’s fragile peace deal is at risk after rebel leader Riek Machar failed to return to the capital to form a transitional government.
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20 Apr 16
Value for money for international aid spending is often undermined by deficiencies in the United Nations system, a review by the UK parliament’s Public Accounts Committee has found.
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19 Apr 16
China is by far the largest new international aid donor, accounting for 70% of non-traditional funds for some of the world’s poorest countries, a report by the UK’s Overseas Development Institute has...
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18 Apr 16
Global development banks have agreed a plan for “unprecedented” cooperation to help close the world’s trillion dollar infrastructure gap following the first ever Global Infrastructure Forum.
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18 Apr 16
The South American nation of Suriname is set to receive a support package worth $478m from the International Monetary Fund intended to help its economy pull out of recession.
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18 Apr 16
More than $1bn of financial support was pledged by donors on Friday to help Syrian refugees and host communities in Jordan and Lebanon.
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15 Apr 16
Childhood malnutrition and stunting should be treated as a development and economic emergency, the World Bank and UNICEF said as they urged world leaders to step up their investments in nutrition.
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15 Apr 16
Tunisia has made further progress towards a $2.8bn support package from the International Monetary Fund, which now only needs approval from the fund’s executive board.
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14 Apr 16
The World Bank has announced it will spend $2.5bn on education projects targeting adolescent girls over the next five years.
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14 Apr 16
Developing countries could be missing out on substantial tax revenues as a result of ill-suited tax policies, research from the International Growth Centre based at the London School of Economics has...
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14 Apr 16
The new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has struck a deal to work with the World Bank after opening for business earlier this year.
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13 Apr 16
Donor countries spent $12bn of aid money on refugees hosted in their own countries last year, almost double the amount spent in 2014, according to figures released by the OECD today.