Countries like Malaysia import many metric tons of plastic waste from Europe each year, paying a few pennies per kilo. This might seem strange, but according to Kai Li, it makes sense. "As a resident ...

Developing country policymakers left last week’s International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank meetings more frustrated ...

The world’s poorest and most climate-vulnerable countries are spending billions of pounds more to repay debts than they receive in funding to fight climate change, new research shows. The analysis, ...

A year after some of the world’s richest men cut aid for the world’s poorest children, they’re trying to roll out a new ...

The arc of history, wise people have assured us, bends towards justice. But this year it has taken a very circuitous route according to many of the global aid agencies. Rich nations have cut off ...

The distributor of the shots said it would cost tens of thousands of lives.

President Trump’s tariffs barrage has landed the heaviest blow on the very nations that global trade was supposed to help: poor countries. For decades, the U.S. and other rich countries have granted ...

The poorest countries in the world have been hit hard following the post COVID-19 economic crisis, leading to high inflation and interest rates. Extreme poverty increased, as measured by the ...

A falling dollar is normally good for the developing world. Because poor countries borrow more in the greenback than rich ones, their debt bills become less burdensome. At the same time, imports ...

From the Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundi to Niger and Liberia below are 10 of the poorest countries in the world. The economy of Central African Republic is largely dependent on the export of ...

Irregular rainfall and drought in Mali has significantly reduced Satou Coulibaly’s millet and groundnut harvest in recent years. “It's getting harder and harder to get enough to eat," she says.

A displaced Sudanese woman and child who fled El-Fasher after its fall to the Rapid Support Forces stand near a makeshift shelter in the camp of Um Yanqur, located on the southwestern edge of Tawila, ...