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24 Nov 15
The European Commission has announced development programmes for Madagascar and Chad worth a combined €619m.
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23 Nov 15
The Asian Development Bank and Japan have announced a $16bn commitment to infrastructure in Asia and the Pacific over the next five years.
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23 Nov 15
China and the UK have both pledged much-needed financial aid to prevent South Sudan’s food crisis from descending into famine.
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23 Nov 15
UK chancellor George Osborne and Microsoft founder Bill Gates have set up a £1bn fund to tackle malaria and other infectious diseases.
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23 Nov 15
Academics have criticised the international response to last year’s Ebola epidemic and called for governance reforms and better funding of the World Health Organisation.
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20 Nov 15
The Asian Development Bank has approved a loan of almost $1.4bn to help Pakistan resolve its energy crisis.
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19 Nov 15
Refugees, hospitals and infrastructure projects are among the beneficiaries of over €12bn worth of new loans from the European Investment Bank.
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19 Nov 15
Road deaths could be a bigger killer than HIV-AIDS by 2020 without more funding and cooperation to deliver improved road safety, World Bank officials have said.
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18 Nov 15
Key donors have saved the World Food Programme from suspending its food assistance to those affected by drought in Ethiopia.
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18 Nov 15
Local government reforms in Kenya are to receive $23.5m in support from the UK government.
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18 Nov 15
African policymakers have committed to accelerate infrastructure development across the continent with a view to boosting regional integration and economic growth.
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18 Nov 15
The mission of humanitarian aid needs to be aligned with those of growth and development, the UK’s international development select committee heard yesterday.
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17 Nov 15
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has approved a $200m loan for Egypt towards a $1.3bn project to overcome the country’s energy shortfall.
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17 Nov 15
The International Monetary Fund has approved a $46.14m disbursement to Sierra Leone as it recovers from the Ebola outbreak.
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16 Nov 15
A $52m project will see two towns in Lao benefit from improved infrastructure and urban services by the end of 2020.
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16 Nov 15
The United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has released $17m to help those affected by the worst drought to hit Ethiopia in decades.
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13 Nov 15
Rwanda and Uganda will receive $50m each from the Climate Investment Funds to support renewable energy plans.
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13 Nov 15
The World Bank approved $200m of credit today for a results-based rural sanitation and water supply programme that is expected to benefit five million people in Vietnam.
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13 Nov 15
Developing countries are in an “age of choice” when it comes to financing their national development strategies and the decisions they make will have impacts on debt sustainability,...
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13 Nov 15
The Asian Development Bank has approved a total of $162m worth of funding for Myanmar this week as the country elected its first democratic government for more than 50 years with a victory for Aung...
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12 Nov 15
A greater focus on the social as well as the economic impacts of infrastructure investments may be needed, Liberia’s minister of public works has said.
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12 Nov 15
American development agency USAID announced $97m in additional emergency food assistance for those vulnerable to the effects of El Niño in Ethiopia on Tuesday.
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12 Nov 15
The European Commission has established a €1.8bn emergency trust fund to address instability and the causes of irregular migration and displacement in Africa.
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12 Nov 15
Former UK prime minister Gordon Brown said now is a “golden time” to address the worldwide infrastructure gap, but stressed that the public sector cannot do the job alone.
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10 Nov 15
The adoption of International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) has a crucial role to play in supporting sustainable development, a United Nations workshop has concluded.