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23 Feb 21
Education budgets are being slashed in poorer countries as governments struggle to deal with Covid-19, a report has found.
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2 Feb 21
The European Union must rethink its strategy for getting people out of poverty after failing to meet its own targets during the past decade, a United Nations official has said following a visit to...
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22 Jan 21
The USA’s top health official says the country will join global efforts to help poor countries overcome Covid-19, while new Treasury secretary Janet Yellen has committed to big domestic spending...
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17 Dec 20
A $28bn programme aimed at getting Covid-19 treatments and vaccines to low and middle-income countries would “pay itself off within 36 hours”, a World Health Organisation official has said.
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4 Dec 20
One-in-seven people worldwide could be left with less than $1.90 a day to live on in the wake of the economic crisis caused by Covid-19, a UN study has warned.
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27 Oct 20
Expanding basic services and increasing access will be crucial for Moldova during its recovery from the economic hit caused by Covid-19, the UN has said.
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1 Oct 20
More than $500m of additional revenue has been secured for developing countries in the past five years through a joint OECD and United Nations tax initiative.
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25 Sep 20
Curbing corruption is more important than ever amid the pandemic, the World Bank has argued in a report.
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24 Sep 20
A fund to guarantee countries’ ability to access food and health products as they experience an economic blockade has been mooted by Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro.
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4 Aug 20
CIPFA’s chief economist Jeffrey Matsu argues that the pandemic represents “time for a reboot” in the way we think about development.
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3 Aug 20
Southeast Asian governments have been urged to address the “fiscal termites” making it difficult to support their citizens through the economic crisis caused by Covid-19.
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7 Jul 20
Global poverty is rising despite “triumphalism” about its perceived decline, according to a global report from a former United Nations official, who also released specific reports on Malaysia and...
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2 Jul 20
Nearly $8bn of aid has been raised for Syria in just one day at a donor conference in Brussels.
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29 May 20
United Nations agencies working in Yemen have called for financial help, suggesting most of their programmes in the country face running out of money “within weeks”, following a slump in donations...
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14 May 20
A UN agency has called for basic income schemes to be implemented immediately in Latin America, to help people deal with the fallout of Covid-19 and to avoid “another lost decade”.
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2 Apr 20
Developed nations should put together a $2.5trn rescue package to help protect developing economies from the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, the UN has said.
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27 Feb 20
Heads of various United Nations departments have released a joint statement asking for help money to fight locust swarms in East Africa, which they say are currently at an “unprecedented” level in...
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25 Feb 20
Biodiversity is “fundamental” for sustainable development, a top UN official has said.
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11 Feb 20
African nations must do better on tackling hunger, leaders at a summit have said.
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28 Jan 20
Chinese officials have said the World Health Organisation remains confident in their ability to control the coronavirus outbreak.
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24 Jan 20
The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals set ambitious targets for a world without poverty, hunger and pollution. Three years on from their adoption, what progress has been made and how is it best...
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17 Jan 20
A record 45 million people in southern Africa face grave food insecurity, following droughts, flooding and struggling national economies, a UN agency has warned.
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3 Jan 20
Health worker numbers need to nearly double in the new decade, especially in low and middle-income countries, the head of a top UN agency has said in a new year message.
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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...