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12 Apr 21
Low-income countries have received just 0.2% of Covid-19 vaccines and advanced economies need to step up financing efforts amid growing deaths and new variants, the World Health Organisation has...
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6 Apr 21
Around 25 countries – about one in eight – spent more on servicing debts in 2019 than on education, health and social protection combined, according to UNICEF.
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29 Mar 21
An impending debt crisis in developing countries will lead to “another lost decade” without decisive action, according to the head of the United Nations.
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24 Mar 21
Africa will need to be able to manufacture its own vaccines to speed up its economic recovery from the Covid-19 crisis, a United Nations panel has been told.
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17 Mar 21
Governments are failing to ‘build back better’ from Covid-19, with just 18% of recovery spending going on ‘green' projects, a group of academics and the United Nations has said.
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15 Mar 21
The United Nations Statistical Commission has adopted a framework for accounting for the value of nature when measuring the economy.
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2 Mar 21
The billions of dollars governments lose to tax abuse, corruption and money laundering could be used to fight the global challenges of our age, a UN panel has said.
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2 Mar 21
The international community has pledged less than half of what the United Nations said it needs to address the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, according to the organisation’s secretary-general António...
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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...
12 Apr 21Low-income countries have received just 0.2% of Covid-19 vaccines and advanced economies need to step up financing efforts amid growing deaths and new variants, the World Health Organisation has...
6 Apr 21Around 25 countries – about one in eight – spent more on servicing debts in 2019 than on education, health and social protection combined, according to UNICEF.
29 Mar 21An impending debt crisis in developing countries will lead to “another lost decade” without decisive action, according to the head of the United Nations.
17 Mar 21Governments are failing to ‘build back better’ from Covid-19, with just 18% of recovery spending going on ‘green' projects, a group of academics and the United Nations has said.
15 Mar 21The United Nations Statistical Commission has adopted a framework for accounting for the value of nature when measuring the economy.
2 Mar 21The billions of dollars governments lose to tax abuse, corruption and money laundering could be used to fight the global challenges of our age, a UN panel has said.
2 Mar 21The international community has pledged less than half of what the United Nations said it needs to address the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, according to the organisation’s secretary-general António...
23 Feb 21Education budgets are being slashed in poorer countries as governments struggle to deal with Covid-19, a report has found.
2 Feb 21The 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...
22 Jan 21The 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...
17 Dec 20A $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.
27 Oct 20Expanding 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.
1 Oct 20More 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.
25 Sep 20Curbing corruption is more important than ever amid the pandemic, the World Bank has argued in a report.
24 Sep 20A 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.
4 Aug 20CIPFA’s chief economist Jeffrey Matsu argues that the pandemic represents “time for a reboot” in the way we think about development.
3 Aug 20Southeast 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.
7 Jul 20Global 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...
2 Jul 20Nearly $8bn of aid has been raised for Syria in just one day at a donor conference in Brussels.
29 May 20United 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...
27 Feb 20Heads 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...
