The World Bank warned in a new report that poor countries will be stuck in economic “purgatory” without debt relief. By Alan Rappeport Reporting from Washington Soaring inflation saddled developing ...

8 November 2024 - There are 32 countries classified as Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs): 16 are in Africa, five in Asia, eight in the Commonwealth of Independent States and South-Eastern Europe ...

We asked development economist Mushfiq Mobarak how volatility in energy markets and disruption of supply chains and travel ...

Transport is crucial for the economic and social development of nations. However, it’s also a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Developing countries are now facing the challenge of ...

This week, officials from around the world are meeting in Seville for a landmark event in the development policy calendar: the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development. The previous ...

"For developing countries, it is a model that we can follow," Sinisha Berjan, the ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to China, said in a recent interview with China Daily when discussing China's new ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3, 2024—Developing countries spent a record $1.4 trillion to service their foreign debt as their interest costs climbed to a 20-year high in 2023, the World Bank’s latest ...

The Japanese government spent some $16.5 billion on official development assistance in 2024, according to the latest white paper on cooperation and development.

The first is that using AI involves the application of statistical methods to identify patterns, propose hypotheses (predictive, generative AI), simulate, and ultimately stimulate scenarios. In other ...

Although cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are well known throughout the world, their form and the burden they cause change as a country undergoes economic development. Developing countries begin with a ...