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12 Sep 17
A campaigning group is calling for debt payments to Caribbean islands hit by Hurricane Irma to be suspended until the nations recover.
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11 Sep 17
The United Nations and its humanitarian partners have appealed for an extra $106m in aid to help drought victims in Kenya.
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11 Sep 17
The UK announced on Saturday it will match public donations to the British Red Cross appeal for victims of Hurricane Irma, up to £3m.
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8 Sep 17
The European Court of Justice has ruled EU member states must take in refugees who reach Europe, dismissing Slovakia and Hungary’s actions against EU asylum quotas.
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8 Sep 17
The UK government has released £32m emergency aid to its overseas territories hit by hurricane Irma and is providing extra emergency support, such as 'shelter kits'.
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6 Sep 17
Denmark ranks top of the 27 richest countries committed to helping developing nations, followed by Sweden and Finland, according to a think-tank’s latest annual development index.
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5 Sep 17
European Union auditors have praised the first trust fund set up by the EU to assist a developing country.
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4 Sep 17
The UK has allocated £400,000 to flood relief work in Nepal, in addition to the £660,000 already given to NGOs in badly flooded Bangladesh.
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1 Sep 17
Large scale theft of public money was among factors that stymied an International Monetary Fund programme to promote growth in Malawi.
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31 Aug 17
Ghana is to receive $94.2m from the International Monetary Fund for a programme that aims to restore debt sustainability and macroeconomic stability and foster a return to high growth and job...
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31 Aug 17
Inadequate water supply and sanitation is costing the Middle East and North Africa region around $21bn a year in economic losses, the World Bank has said.
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29 Aug 17
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has proposed the creation of national green financing vehicles to promote environmentally and financially sustainable infrastructure investments.
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24 Aug 17
The Inter-American Development Bank has approved a $400m loan to support renovation and electrification work of an urban railway in Argentina.
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24 Aug 17
People are being driven by the effects of drought to flee Central America into the United States, the World Food Programme has said.
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24 Aug 17
The World Bank has denied reports that it was financing a €1bn project to electrify a railway in Iran.
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24 Aug 17
The World Bank has approved a $20m tranche of funding to modernise government services in Moldova.
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23 Aug 17
The African Development Bank Group has banned China’s Chongqing International Construction Corporation (CICO) from bidding for contracts for at least a year after a corruption probe.
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22 Aug 17
China’s proposed ’belt and road’ network of surface and sea links to Europe will need measures in place to prevent the spread of epidemics, World Health Organisation director-...
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21 Aug 17
Sri Lanka would be able to meet its current and future electricity demand by use of renewable energy by 2050, according to a joint study by the UN Development Programme and Asian Development Bank.
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21 Aug 17
The World Bank has signed a zero-interest $200m credit with Myanmar to help with programmes that include better public debt management, increased tax collection and stronger public finance management.
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21 Aug 17
Africa cannot “develop in the dark”, African Development Bank president Akinwumi Adesina has said, explaining the bank’s emphasis on investment in electricity.
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18 Aug 17
The Asian Development Bank and the Green Climate Fund have signed an agreement that will allow the bank to increase its climate financing in developing member countries.
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18 Aug 17
The Philippine government has launched a new catastrophe risk insurance programme to help it respond to losses from natural disasters.
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18 Aug 17
More emergency aid from the UK will be sent to Sierra Leone, international development secretary Priti Patel announced today.
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18 Aug 17
More than 9 million people were internally displaced by conflicts, violence or natural disasters in the first half of 2017, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).