Anneliese Dodds’s resignation as minister for international development – over the prime minister’s bid to use the foreign aid budget to boost defence spending – comes as little surprise ...

Burundi, a small, landlocked country in East Africa, holds the unfortunate title of being the poorest nation in the world. According to data from the World Population Review, Burundi ranks at the ...

In 2000, the world's leaders joined together in a pledge to radically improve the lives of the poorest people on the planet. Fifteen years later, how have the UN's Millennium Development Goals ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Friday asked Congress to approve $3.2 billion in contributions to the World Bank's International ... loans to the world's poorest countries.

WASHINGTON - Ireland will contribute about €141.4 million (S$210 million) to the World Bank's latest replenishment of its fund for the poorest countries ... important than ever that we step ...

The total external debt of the world's poorest countries increased by 9.5 per cent to a record $744 billion dollars in 2019, according to the World Bank. "Before the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic ...

Despite recent progress, three in four people in the poorest countries have no social protection coverage. Across low- and middle-income countries, 2 billion people remain inadequately covered. The ...

Trump's Budget Includes $3.2 Billion for World Bank's Fund for Poorest Countries WASHINGTON ... with no return on investment for the American people," the document said.