MILAN (Reuters) -Unsustainable debt levels among the world's poorest countries pose a risk to economic development and social ...
Extreme weather fuelled by the climate crisis has cost some of the world’s poorest countries $156bn (£116bn) across the past two decades, The Independent can reveal. “If the UK suffered tens of ...
Countries around the world now owe a combined 307 trillion, with the US national debt alone recently passing 37 trillion. A ...
The World Bank is calling for $25 billion in further COVID-19 emergency financing to help the world's poorest countries grapple with the massive challenges of the global pandemic, the Bank's president ...
The world's poorest countries could soon be facing a tough decision -- double up on debt relief from the G20 with the caveat they must default on private creditors, or quit the programme to try to ...
LONDON (Reuters) -Contraceptives that could help prevent millions of unwanted pregnancies in some of the world’s poorest countries are stuck in warehouses because of U.S. aid cuts and could be ...
Tributes are placed beneath the covered seal of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) at their headquarters in Washington, DC, on February 7, 2025. [AFP] A suspension of US foreign aid ...
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's administration plans to end U.S. funding for Gavi, an organization that helps buy vaccines for children in poor countries, and will scale back efforts to combat ...
Poor countries paying billions more to cover debts than they receive as aid to fight climate crisis - The world’s least ...
CAIRO (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has reversed new cutoffs in emergency food aid to several nations but maintained them in Afghanistan and Yemen, two of the world’s poorest and ...