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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.
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11 Feb 16
Efforts to eliminate poverty and food insecurity could be undermined unless international action is taken to counter the threat posed by antibiotic resistance, the chief of the United Nations Food...
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11 Feb 16
World Bank president Jim Yong Kim has pressed Pakistan to step up its economic reform ambitions and seize related opportunities for growth.
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11 Feb 16
Some 4.8 million more Europeans have been living in poverty since the financial crisis and families in particular have been struggling to make ends meet, the European Foundation for the Improvement...
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10 Feb 16
Zimbabwe’s government has appealed to local businesses and charities for $1.5bn in aid to feed more than a quarter of its population who are going hungry due to severe drought.
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9 Feb 16
The Asian Development Bank today approved a $400m loan to help the Philippines expand its successful health and education conditional cash transfer programme.
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8 Feb 16
The Asian Development Bank and the International Finance Corporation will provide loans worth $300m to telecommunications company Ooredoo to rollout a mobile network across Myanmar.
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5 Feb 16
The United Nations’ Palestinian refugee agency launched a $414m appeal for its work with Palestinian refugees affected by the conflict in Syria amidst the high-level donors’ conference in London...
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2 Feb 16
A United Nations-backed humanitarian appeal for Libya has achieved barely 1% of its needed funding almost two months after its launch, a senior UN official for the North African country warned today...
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1 Feb 16
Small, middle-income countries (SMICs) in sub-Saharan Africa should prioritise investments that generate wide economic benefits and rationalise regulations that hinder the private sector in order to...
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1 Feb 16
USAID has announced almost $100m in additional food assistance for drought-stricken communities in Ethiopia, who are still suffering from the impact of a powerful El Niño.
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28 Jan 16
UK government ministers have insisted that arms sales to Saudi Arabia do not undermine international development objectives in Yemen despite charities telling MPs that the positions were incompatible...
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26 Jan 16
The security and stability challenges the European Union faces require closer, better coordinated collective action, according to the commissioner for international cooperation and development.
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26 Jan 16
The United Nations refugee agency and its partners have called for more than half a billion dollars this year to help those fleeing conflicts in Nigeria and the Central African Republic.
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25 Jan 16
Three of the world’s largest humanitarian agencies and senior representatives from philanthropic and insurance organisations have called for a “paradigm shift” in the world’s approach to humanitarian...
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19 Jan 16
The humanitarian community is today appealing for $1.3bn in aid for South Sudan and $885m for Somalia, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has announced.
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18 Jan 16
The World Bank has approved a $100m loan to support infrastructure and local development in Gabon.
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15 Jan 16
The Asian Development Bank is to work with Papua New Guinea to help the country integrate climate risks and resilience into its development.
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15 Jan 16
A United Nations app that allows users to donate through via their smart phone has achieved its first goal of ensuring 20,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan have vital nutrition at school for one year.
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16 Dec 15
Nine in ten of the registered Syrian refugees living in Jordan are either poor now or expected to be poor in the future and live on the margins of society with few legal rights or access to services...
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11 Dec 15
UK international development minister Nick Hurd has called for a global response to the increasingly desperate situation in Ethiopia.
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9 Dec 15
The World Bank has announced a $2bn five-year partnership with Bolivia, which it says will benefit 4.5 million people in the country.
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9 Dec 15
United Nations agencies and their partners have launched an appeal for almost $2bn to provide crucial assistance to people in Africa’s Sahel region for 2016.
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4 Dec 15
More people are in need of humanitarian assistance than at any time since the Second World War, with women and girls disproportionately vulnerable, according to the United Nations Population Fund (...
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3 Dec 15
Multilateral development banks (MDBs) need to be more “nimble and flexible” in order to help countries meet the new Sustainable Development Goals, the president of the European Bank for...
12 Feb 16The Asian Development Bank has announced $10bn in funding for Indonesia over the next five years to help it further develop, particularly in infrastructure terms.
11 Feb 16Efforts to eliminate poverty and food insecurity could be undermined unless international action is taken to counter the threat posed by antibiotic resistance, the chief of the United Nations Food...
11 Feb 16World Bank president Jim Yong Kim has pressed Pakistan to step up its economic reform ambitions and seize related opportunities for growth.
11 Feb 16Some 4.8 million more Europeans have been living in poverty since the financial crisis and families in particular have been struggling to make ends meet, the European Foundation for the Improvement...
10 Feb 16Zimbabwe’s government has appealed to local businesses and charities for $1.5bn in aid to feed more than a quarter of its population who are going hungry due to severe drought.
9 Feb 16The Asian Development Bank today approved a $400m loan to help the Philippines expand its successful health and education conditional cash transfer programme.
8 Feb 16The Asian Development Bank and the International Finance Corporation will provide loans worth $300m to telecommunications company Ooredoo to rollout a mobile network across Myanmar.
5 Feb 16The United Nations’ Palestinian refugee agency launched a $414m appeal for its work with Palestinian refugees affected by the conflict in Syria amidst the high-level donors’ conference in London...
2 Feb 16A United Nations-backed humanitarian appeal for Libya has achieved barely 1% of its needed funding almost two months after its launch, a senior UN official for the North African country warned today...
1 Feb 16Small, middle-income countries (SMICs) in sub-Saharan Africa should prioritise investments that generate wide economic benefits and rationalise regulations that hinder the private sector in order to...
28 Jan 16UK government ministers have insisted that arms sales to Saudi Arabia do not undermine international development objectives in Yemen despite charities telling MPs that the positions were incompatible...
26 Jan 16The security and stability challenges the European Union faces require closer, better coordinated collective action, according to the commissioner for international cooperation and development.
26 Jan 16The United Nations refugee agency and its partners have called for more than half a billion dollars this year to help those fleeing conflicts in Nigeria and the Central African Republic.
25 Jan 16Three of the world’s largest humanitarian agencies and senior representatives from philanthropic and insurance organisations have called for a “paradigm shift” in the world’s approach to humanitarian...
19 Jan 16The humanitarian community is today appealing for $1.3bn in aid for South Sudan and $885m for Somalia, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has announced.
18 Jan 16The World Bank has approved a $100m loan to support infrastructure and local development in Gabon.
15 Jan 16The Asian Development Bank is to work with Papua New Guinea to help the country integrate climate risks and resilience into its development.
15 Jan 16A United Nations app that allows users to donate through via their smart phone has achieved its first goal of ensuring 20,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan have vital nutrition at school for one year.
16 Dec 15Nine in ten of the registered Syrian refugees living in Jordan are either poor now or expected to be poor in the future and live on the margins of society with few legal rights or access to services...
11 Dec 15UK international development minister Nick Hurd has called for a global response to the increasingly desperate situation in Ethiopia.
9 Dec 15The World Bank has announced a $2bn five-year partnership with Bolivia, which it says will benefit 4.5 million people in the country.
4 Dec 15More people are in need of humanitarian assistance than at any time since the Second World War, with women and girls disproportionately vulnerable, according to the United Nations Population Fund (...
3 Dec 15Multilateral development banks (MDBs) need to be more “nimble and flexible” in order to help countries meet the new Sustainable Development Goals, the president of the European Bank for...
