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15 Feb 19
International donors should make education for Rohingya refugees a priority, leading NGOs said as the UN launch an appeal for hundreds of millions of pounds in aid of the crisis.
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13 Feb 19
Swiss NGOs face losing out on European Union aid funds – and UK organisations could be in the same boat – after Brussels indicated that only member states will be eligible.
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12 Feb 19
Treasury official David Malpass has been named as the US’ nomination to lead the World Bank and has vowed to boost the bank’s lending powers and focus on economic growth.
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12 Feb 19
Calls for a multi-billion-pound cut in the UK’s foreign aid budget and the abolition of the Department for International Development are a “recipe for disaster”, NGOs have warned.
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11 Feb 19
Finland’s two-year experiment to give people an unconditional monthly income did not boost employment, researchers have said.
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8 Feb 19
Afghanistan is to receive $325m of World Bank funding to boost service delivery and municipal management.
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4 Feb 19
The UK government’s “inconsistent” spending of its aid budget is undermining efforts to tackle extreme poverty, a campaign group has warned.
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31 Jan 19
Australia will fall short of a 2030 target on greenhouse gas emissions without a major shift to clean energy, warns the OECD.
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31 Jan 19
Multilateral banks need a “dramatic” overhaul of strategies to achieve global goals by 2030, warns the head of the Islamic Development Bank.
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25 Jan 19
Aid contributions must rise and be targeted to the places and sectors where they will really make a difference, says Development Initiatives’ Cecilia Caio.
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25 Jan 19
Low- and middle-income countries need to improve public financial management to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and get the most value for money, IMF chief Christine Lagarde has said.
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25 Jan 19
Countries have been called on to donate billions of dollars of funding to an international not-for-profit to it fight infectious diseases across the globe.
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23 Jan 19
Japan will use its G20 chairmanship to rebuild trust in the global trade system, its prime minister Shinzo Abe has said.
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22 Jan 19
The World Bank will ramp up its climate financing to $50bn over the next five years, which will be more than double the grants and loans it has given annually since 2015.
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22 Jan 19
The European Union has announced its highest-ever initial humanitarian budget to tackle conflicts and climate change worldwide.
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22 Jan 19
A 1% tax increase on the world’s richest people could governments fund public services, which would reduce poverty and inequality, Oxfam has said.
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22 Jan 19
Green financing made up 36% of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s total investments last year – just short of its target of 40% by 2020.
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15 Jan 19
South Africa has recently been plagued by controlled power cuts organised by the single, state-owned electricity provider Eskom - a firm integral to the country’s economy but mired in accusations of...
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11 Jan 19
The World Bank and Bangladesh have signed a $250m agreement to create more jobs to boost economic growth in the south Asian country.
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8 Jan 19
World Bank president Jim Yong Kim has resigned from his post three years before he was due to leave.
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3 Jan 19
Uganda’s budget deficit could narrow to 6% of gross domestic product in the next year due to investment in large hydropower projects, it has been reported.
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3 Jan 19
Rising borrowing costs for developing countries should be tackled to avoid a “full-blown debt crisis”, campaigners have warned.
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19 Dec 18
The Islamic Development Bank has approved $281.55m for development projects in its member states, it announced this week.
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19 Dec 18
The UK has pledged £100m extra funding to renewable energy projects in Africa giving hundreds of thousands access to electricity, the government has announced.
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19 Dec 18
India will the Maldives boost economic and social development through a $1.4bn support package, prime minister Narendra Modi has announced.