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31 Mar 16
China blazed ahead of the rest of the world in terms of investment in renewable energy last year, spending a total of $103bn, or 36% of the world total.
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22 Mar 16
The UK’s new overseas aid strategy risks marginalising the historic focus on poverty reduction, the International Development Select Committee has warned.
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16 Mar 16
Nigeria needs to create 40-50 million more productive and higher-income jobs by 2030 to support its booming population, poverty reduction and inclusive growth, the World Bank has found.
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15 Mar 16
Humanitarian funding for UNICEF’s appeal in war-torn South Sudan has collapsed, putting lives at risk, the NGO warned today.
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14 Mar 16
The United Nations Statistical Commission agreed on a set of 230 preliminary indicators to measure progress towards the 17 Sustainable Development Goals published last September.
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10 Mar 16
Stabilising public finances and tackling poverty and inequality in Greece are crucial for the debt-laden country’s emergence from crisis, the OECD has stressed.
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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
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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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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3 Mar 16
Pragmatic, targeted and well-sequenced public finance management reforms are more likely to lead to success than ambitious, large-scale overhauls, the Asian Development Bank vice president has said.
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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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29 Feb 16
The Indian government has unveiled its 2016/17 budget, prioritising more support for the rural poor, infrastructure and recapitalisation of the country’s banks.
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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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24 Feb 16
The UK’s Department for International Development has announced a partnership with a global mobile operators organisation, which will see mobile technology used to provide life-enhancing services to...
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24 Feb 16
The Asian Development Bank has announced plans to scale up its operations in Sri Lanka to $2bn in loans and equity over 2016-18.
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22 Feb 16
The World Bank has approved a $450m package to support the Philippines government’s health and education conditional cash transfer programme.
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19 Feb 16
The OECD’s Development Assistance Committee has expanded the definition of overseas aid to include limited forms of counterterrorism and military activities or training.
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17 Feb 16
The UK is to send food packages and medical supplies to Malawi, where drought exacerbated by El Niño has caused the country’s worst food crisis in a decade.
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16 Feb 16
Sri Lanka’s “chronic” revenue shortfalls must be addressed and its economy must become more competitive and inclusive if poverty is to be reduced, the World Bank has said.
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16 Feb 16
The state of Costa Rica’s public finances presents a serious challenge to the country’s “impressive economic, social and environmental progress”, the OECD has warned.
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12 Feb 16
The Asian Development Bank has announced $10bn in funding for Indonesia over the next five years to help it further develop, particularly in infrastructure terms.