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30 Apr 18
The UK has committed £250m over the next four years to tackling environmental challenges, such as reducing plastic in the oceans and fighting illegal wildlife trade.
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30 Apr 18
All Indian villages now have access to electricity, prime minister Narendra Modi has announced.
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30 Apr 18
The Australian government has pledged more than AU$500m to help the Great Barrier Reef by reducing agricultural pesticides and improving water quality.
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27 Apr 18
Countries should look to long-term investments for sustainable development and change their mindset from “short-termism”, United Nation officials have said.
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26 Apr 18
The UK will provide emergency medical support and help protect medical facilities in Syria, international development secretary Penny Mordaunt said yesterday.
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25 Apr 18
The Asian Development Bank has approved a $30m policy-based grant to help improve health services in Laos.
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24 Apr 18
The US Federal Reserve’s decision to raise rates to a 10-year high has significant impacts on African countries seeking to finance development, says Fiona Robertson of the ONE Campaign.
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24 Apr 18
Improving the Greek education system could contribute to inclusive and sustainable growth, the OECD has said.
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24 Apr 18
The UK has urged global leaders to support a pledge to give the world’s most marginalised girls 12 years of ‘good quality’ education.
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24 Apr 18
The European Union has signed an €17m financing agreement to improve public financial management in Zambia.
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24 Apr 18
CIPFA member and consultant David Goldsworthy reflects on a recent meeting of international accountancy professionals, convened to find ways to boost the profession in fragile and conflict-affected...
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20 Apr 18
The African Development Bank has launched an integrated strategy for economic progress in the continent’s Portuguese-speaking countries.
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19 Apr 18
The European Union will use its own experience in creating digital networks to help Africa do the same and implement e-commerce, its digital economy and society commissioner Mariya Gabriel has said.
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18 Apr 18
Commonwealth countries are to increase efforts to stamp out human trafficking and child exploitation.
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17 Apr 18
The World Bank should stop funding and promoting public private partnerships until a review of their effectiveness has been done, an NGO umbrella group has called for today.
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17 Apr 18
The African Development Bank is to lend $20m to a private healthcare company in Nigeria to help improve hospital and other specialist health facilities in Lagos State.
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17 Apr 18
The international community “can do more” to support Libya countering its ‘war economy’, a think-tank has said.
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16 Apr 18
South Asia is once again the fastest growing region in world thanks to India’s economic recovery, the World Bank has said.
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16 Apr 18
The World Bank is to invest $500m in education reforms in Egypt, expanding access to early years education and making greater use of technical innovations.
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16 Apr 18
European Union investments in business have not led to durable and long-lasting success in around a fifth of cases, auditors have found.
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13 Apr 18
Commonwealth member states must create 50,000 jobs every day to provide work for the growing number of young people seeking work, the Overseas Development Institute has said.
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12 Apr 18
UK overseas aid will be diverted away from “governments who can afford to, yet choose not to, invest in their own people”, international development secretary Penny Mordaunt has said.
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12 Apr 18
Togo has met all the criteria for its extended credit facility from the International Monetary Fund despite economic activity having weakened in the second half of last year.
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11 Apr 18
The World Bank has called for action to bring down poverty rates in the Philippines’ Mindanao province, which accounts for one-third of the country’s poor but only a quarter of its population.
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11 Apr 18
The African Development Bank is to prepare an aviation strategy to set out how the new Single African Air Transport Market can help to drive growth.