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9 Mar 16
Efforts to build resilience to infectious diseases like Ebola are futile unless they also address systematic gender inequality, the African Development Bank has said.
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7 Mar 16
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation has called for $13m by the end of March to support more than 600,000 people affected by severe drought in Ethiopia.
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7 Mar 16
A deal between the Asian Development Bank and the Eurasian Development Bank will see the banks work together to invest $3bn in Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
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7 Mar 16
Investment focused on tackling gender inequality can form an essential part of the fight to end extreme poverty, according to the ONE campaign.
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4 Mar 16
The international community must provide the promised funding needed to fill the almost half a billion dollar gap in Syria’s health sector, the World Health Organisation's regional director has said.
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4 Mar 16
The OECD has called on Spain to fulfil its commitment to reverse the sharp decline in its overseas aid funding, which fell by 68% between 2010 and 2014.
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4 Mar 16
Women in Ireland shoulder one of the most unequal burdens in the world when it comes to childcare, according to the UK’s Overseas Development Institute.
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3 Mar 16
The European Commission has announced the EU will step up its contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to €470m over 2017-19.
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3 Mar 16
UK prime minister David Cameron is “conning” the British public by spending the country’s aid budget on military and defence activities, the country's shadow secretary of state for international...
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2 Mar 16
India and the World Bank have signed a $300m credit agreement to support improvements to government-run higher education institutions in a large central Indian state.
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2 Mar 16
Intensive efforts are needed to spur economic growth and opportunity in Kosovo as political turmoil hampers progress, chief of the United Nations mission in the country has warned.
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1 Mar 16
The United States international development agency USAID has announced a further $20m in emergency food assistance for Iraq.
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1 Mar 16
The UK’s Department for International Development is to help strengthen the use of evidence-based policy and decision making with a grant of $21m.
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29 Feb 16
The World Bank has approved a $70m project to address the high levels of unemployment among university graduates in Tunisia.
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29 Feb 16
The World Bank approved a $120m loan to China last week to support transport development in Wuhan, the capital of central China’s Hubei province.
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29 Feb 16
The Asian Development Bank has backed a first-of-its-kind, $225m local currency climate bond from a Philippines renewable energy firm with a 75% guarantee.
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29 Feb 16
The key development role migrants play in Asia Pacific is being overlooked, preventing policies to maximise these benefits from taking shape, according to a United Nations report.
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26 Feb 16
The United Nations emergency fund has released $21m to deliver humanitarian aid for those affected by conflict and connected food insecurity in South Sudan.
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26 Feb 16
A meeting of the Southern African Development Committee that concludes today marks a “litmus test” in whether the region will cope with an increasingly dire food crisis, Oxfam has said.
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26 Feb 16
The African Development Bank will deliver almost $1.5bn in financing to Tanzania and the Seychelles over the next five years.
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26 Feb 16
The Asian Development Bank president has urged Nepal to pick up the pace of its public investment in reconstruction and development in order to reach its full growth potential.
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25 Feb 16
A Ugandan farmers’ association has called on the United Nations to sever its ties to an agriculture firm accused of land-grabbing and deforestation in the country.
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24 Feb 16
Securing genuine results from aid spending is vital at a time of extraordinary demand, says Labour MP Stephen Twigg, chair of the International Development Select Committee
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24 Feb 16
The United Nations refugee agency has criticised some European countries for shifting problems onward with their restrictive practices for refugees, resulting in undue hardship, chaos, and potential...
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24 Feb 16
Vietnam’s economy will need to grow by 7% a year and average incomes rise to over $7,000, up from $2,000 in 2014, if it is to achieve its ambition of attaining upper-middle-income status in two...