Many low-income and emerging market countries face an increasingly precarious economic future as they grapple with mounting debt burdens. Creditors include international financial institutions, the ...

International development activities come in several forms and are driven by various economic, security, humanitarian, or other reasons. Many scholars and practitioners see this work as increasingly ...

Feb 21 (Reuters) - Hong Kong-based property developer New World Development (0017.HK), opens new tab said on Friday it expects to swing to a loss of up to HK$6.80 billion ($875.07 million) for the ...

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There are now a billion fewer people subsisting on less than $2.15 a day than in 2000. Each year since the turn of the millennium, a cast of aid workers, bureaucrats and philanthropists, who often ...

The violent protests that began in Nairobi in June appeared to erupt suddenly, a direct response to the government’s proposal of a contentious finance bill the month before. But the economic crisis ...

HONG KONG, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Embattled New World Development (0017.HK), opens new tab said on Tuesday it expected $1.3 billion of its debt, majority of it being perpetual bonds, to be cut after ...

Middle-income countries—home today to 6 billion people—are in a race against time. Since the 1990s, many of them have done well enough to escape low-income levels and eradicate extreme poverty, ...

The term "Third World" is making headlines. Last week, President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that immigrants from poor nations are a burden on the United States. "I will permanently pause ...

World Development Indicators (WDI) serves as the World Bank's primary collection of internationally comparable data on development. It is a comprehensive resource that contains pertinent, top-notch ...

The new World Bank World Development report 2025 reveals that the rapid spread of international standards—impacting areas from food labeling to 5G technology—is transforming the global economy. While ...