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11 Dec 19
Corruption is a barrier to creating a better, fairer and more equal society, a top UN official has said.
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10 Dec 19
Inequalities surrounding education, climate change and technology could trigger a “new great divergence” in society of a scale not seen since the Industrial Revolution, the United Nations Development...
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26 Nov 19
Young people in Africa hold the key to the continent’s economic transformation, the chief economist of the African Development Bank has said.
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25 Nov 19
Global ‘prosperity’ is at its highest ever level but the gap between the strongest and weakest performing countries is widening, according to a think-tank.
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19 Nov 19
Representatives from UK political parties have disagreed over whether to maintain aid spending at the current level of 0.7% of gross national income.
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14 Nov 19
Adult obesity has tripled in Latin America and the Caribbean since 1975, although hunger is growing, a UN report has found.
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11 Nov 19
Germany’s coalition partners have reached an agreement on a pensions issue that threatened to derail the country’s government.
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8 Nov 19
The World Bank has warned the Lebanese president that poverty could rise by half if the economic situation in the country worsens.
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5 Nov 19
A ‘local farms-to-school-meals’ supply chain in Tunisia will support the region’s economy and make sure children receive enough nutrition to meet their potential, the World Food Programme hopes.
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1 Nov 19
Investment in the digital economy will help enhance Kenya’s reputation as the “silicon savannah”, and narrow the rural-urban economic divide, according to World Bank economists.
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31 Oct 19
A $100m project in Bangladesh, financed by a loan from the World Bank, will result in an additional 600,000 people having access to clean drinking water and improved sanitation.
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29 Oct 19
Despite a large rise in the number of working women in Latin America, there’s still a yawning gap between the levels of men and women active in the region’s labour market, according to a report.
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25 Oct 19
Improving people’s access to transport in rural areas would connect billions more to education, healthcare and jobs, the World Bank has claimed.
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23 Oct 19
The IMF’s Frederic Lambert explains how social spending in Mexico has been effective in alleviating poverty and containing income inequality.
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18 Oct 19
Economic challenges have slowed the rate of poverty reduction in Central Asia, the World Bank has warned.
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17 Oct 19
Brexit presents an opportunity for the UK to revamp its international development strategy - and going back to good aid values is a start, says Bond’s Claire Godfrey.
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16 Oct 19
Hard-to-reach communities in Nepal with little access to formal education are being helped by local initiatives supported by UNESCO to improve literacy.
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14 Oct 19
A fundamental rethink is needed by governments across the world to meet the UN’s highly ambitious Sustainable Development Goals, write the editors of a new book on how to turn the SDGs into a reality...
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11 Oct 19
Donald Trump’s pressure on Mexico to host asylum-seekers after his ‘expedited removal’ of 300,000 immigrants has dashed the country’s hopes of developing a progressive migration policy, writes Gavin...
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9 Oct 19
More than 700 million people worldwide still live in extreme poverty but it is possible to leverage scarce development resources to help change that, says the World Bank’s Akihiko Nishio.
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4 Oct 19
Indonesia should look to its cities to drive prosperity, the World Bank has argued, saying urbanisation will help it become a high-income country.
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4 Oct 19
World Bank data has shown foreign debt burden on developing countries rose to $7.8tn in 2018, causing concern over governments’ sustainability and their future ability to invest in development.
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3 Oct 19
Thulani Mpofu looks at whether Zimbabwe is any better off two years after triumphant scenes that ushered in a new president and ended a 37-year dictatorship.
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20 Sep 19
Poorer children are seven times less likely to finish school than rich children in the developing world, Oxfam has found.
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17 Sep 19
Millions more people are predicted to be living in extreme poverty by 2030 than was previously thought.
11 Dec 19Corruption is a barrier to creating a better, fairer and more equal society, a top UN official has said.
10 Dec 19Inequalities surrounding education, climate change and technology could trigger a “new great divergence” in society of a scale not seen since the Industrial Revolution, the United Nations Development...
26 Nov 19Young people in Africa hold the key to the continent’s economic transformation, the chief economist of the African Development Bank has said.
25 Nov 19Global ‘prosperity’ is at its highest ever level but the gap between the strongest and weakest performing countries is widening, according to a think-tank.
19 Nov 19Representatives from UK political parties have disagreed over whether to maintain aid spending at the current level of 0.7% of gross national income.
14 Nov 19Adult obesity has tripled in Latin America and the Caribbean since 1975, although hunger is growing, a UN report has found.
11 Nov 19Germany’s coalition partners have reached an agreement on a pensions issue that threatened to derail the country’s government.
8 Nov 19The World Bank has warned the Lebanese president that poverty could rise by half if the economic situation in the country worsens.
5 Nov 19A ‘local farms-to-school-meals’ supply chain in Tunisia will support the region’s economy and make sure children receive enough nutrition to meet their potential, the World Food Programme hopes.
1 Nov 19Investment in the digital economy will help enhance Kenya’s reputation as the “silicon savannah”, and narrow the rural-urban economic divide, according to World Bank economists.
31 Oct 19A $100m project in Bangladesh, financed by a loan from the World Bank, will result in an additional 600,000 people having access to clean drinking water and improved sanitation.
29 Oct 19Despite a large rise in the number of working women in Latin America, there’s still a yawning gap between the levels of men and women active in the region’s labour market, according to a report.
25 Oct 19Improving people’s access to transport in rural areas would connect billions more to education, healthcare and jobs, the World Bank has claimed.
23 Oct 19The IMF’s Frederic Lambert explains how social spending in Mexico has been effective in alleviating poverty and containing income inequality.
18 Oct 19Economic challenges have slowed the rate of poverty reduction in Central Asia, the World Bank has warned.
17 Oct 19Brexit presents an opportunity for the UK to revamp its international development strategy - and going back to good aid values is a start, says Bond’s Claire Godfrey.
16 Oct 19Hard-to-reach communities in Nepal with little access to formal education are being helped by local initiatives supported by UNESCO to improve literacy.
11 Oct 19Donald Trump’s pressure on Mexico to host asylum-seekers after his ‘expedited removal’ of 300,000 immigrants has dashed the country’s hopes of developing a progressive migration policy, writes Gavin...
9 Oct 19More than 700 million people worldwide still live in extreme poverty but it is possible to leverage scarce development resources to help change that, says the World Bank’s Akihiko Nishio.
4 Oct 19Indonesia should look to its cities to drive prosperity, the World Bank has argued, saying urbanisation will help it become a high-income country.
4 Oct 19World Bank data has shown foreign debt burden on developing countries rose to $7.8tn in 2018, causing concern over governments’ sustainability and their future ability to invest in development.
3 Oct 19Thulani Mpofu looks at whether Zimbabwe is any better off two years after triumphant scenes that ushered in a new president and ended a 37-year dictatorship.
20 Sep 19Poorer children are seven times less likely to finish school than rich children in the developing world, Oxfam has found.
17 Sep 19Millions more people are predicted to be living in extreme poverty by 2030 than was previously thought.
