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6 Jul 18
The IMF must rethink its loan conditions to put stronger focus on protecting human rights, tackling inequality and backing sustainable development, according to a coalition of economists, academics...
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6 Jul 18
The Asian Development Bank will give Bangladesh a $100m grant to help provide basic infrastructure and services for refugees.
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5 Jul 18
The Asian Development Bank has raised €600m to boost climate financing through a green bond.
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5 Jul 18
Poor quality health services are increasing the number of avoidable illness cases and driving up health costs globally, a joint report has warned.
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5 Jul 18
The Asian Development Bank and Thai government have signed a $99.4m loan to help improve the roads in the country’s Northeastern region.
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5 Jul 18
France and Nigeria have signed agreements for $475m worth of financing to help the African country with its development.
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4 Jul 18
The European Commission will give Spain and Greece €45.6m in emergency assistance to help with migration.
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3 Jul 18
Last week’s Fijian budget was a “missed opportunity” to promote gender equality through fiscal policies, a social development adviser has told PF International.
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2 Jul 18
European leaders have struck a deal on how to handle migration within the bloc after finishing marathon talks at an EU summit.
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2 Jul 18
The Bahamas is to shore up the resilience of its public finances to the effects climate change with a $100m loan from the Inter-American Development Bank.
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2 Jul 18
The Asian Development Bank has approved a $60m loan to help improve road development in Mongolia to boost the economy.
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29 Jun 18
The frontrunner in Sunday’s election promises to resurrect a strong state but his enemies say he is a false prophet, writes Gavin O’Toole.
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29 Jun 18
Health spending in advanced economies has grown by the fastest rate in seven years, OECD figures have revealed.
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28 Jun 18
Penny Mordaunt has pledged to help Commonwealth veterans living in poverty through the British aid budget, in a speech at a think-tank today.
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28 Jun 18
Estonians will soon benefit from free public transport after the government agreed to give regional transport centres additional funding, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications has...
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27 Jun 18
The World Bank has approved $30m to help Grenada strengthen climate resilience and support its transition to a ‘blue economy’, focused on conserving marine resources.
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26 Jun 18
If small islands states improved their recovery and reconstruction efforts after natural disasters they could reduce their annual losses by up to 59%, the World Bank has found.
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26 Jun 18
The World Bank has approved a $300m loan to improve healthcare services in Bolivia.
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22 Jun 18
The European Union is to give a total of €34m to Uganda and Kenya to help refugees being hosted in those countries.
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22 Jun 18
The way the UK spends its international aid budget will be “reset” to help the world’s poor and win back the trust of “sceptical” British taxpayers, Penny Mordaunt has said.
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20 Jun 18
China will give more than $100m in military aid to Cambodia, to be use for “any necessary need”, it has been announced.
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20 Jun 18
Uganda must transform its agricultural sector to drive economic growth and reduce poverty, the World Bank has said.
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19 Jun 18
The UK should give at least £1bn a year to global nature conservation through its international aid budget, a joint report has urged.
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19 Jun 18
Bad management and a lack of infrastructure investment are contributing to major water shortages and access problems in India, a think-tank has warned.
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18 Jun 18
The Asian Development Bank has approved a $6.8m grant to help the government of Tonga reconstruct and improve disaster resilience of its electricity network.