We’re almost a quarter of the way through the 21st century, and the past 25 years or so have been a tale of two economies when it comes to bridging the gap between the world’s richest and poorest ...

LONDON/GENEVA, Oct 22 (Reuters) - A new U.N.-supported forum designed to help tackle the most pressing debt issues across emerging economies was launched on Wednesday as policymakers warned that ...

Sustainable finance is a crucial driver of economic growth and a catalyst of environmental resilience in developing economies like Kosovo, where my company operates. It allows financial institutions ...

The global economy is on course to record its worst half decade of growth in 30 years, according to the World Bank. Global growth is forecast to slow for the third year in a row in 2024, dipping to ...

Developing economies received just $435 billion Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in 2023, the latest year for which data are available, and the lowest level since 2005, coinciding with a global trend ...

The World Bank warned on Tuesday that economic growth in the United States may drop by half this year due to President Trump’s tariffs, and the rest of the world will also see a notable slowdown. The ...

On a recent visit to rural Andhra Pradesh we stopped to buy a cup of tea from a chaiwallah, an informal entrepreneur selling tea by the roadside. After producing a hot cup of masala chai, she gave us ...

While the world pushes for clean energy, developing economies still rely on fossil fuels, and without major financing, the transition will remain unequal and out of reach. According to Greenpeace, one ...

The global financial safety net is the set of institutions and arrangements that provide lines of defense for economies against external financial shocks. There are three lines of defense in their ...

For the first time, the latest Women, Business and the Law report assesses not only the degree of equality in laws on the books, but also the extent to which those laws are enforced. Legal experts ...

Thierry Kalisa started working with new data for real-time economic projections, or “nowcasting,” a decade ago, but the pandemic brought its potential into sharper focus. As a Rwandan finance ministry ...

Investment is the engine that expands productive capacity, modernizes infrastructure, creates jobs, and drives progress toward development and climate goals. Yet developing economies face an ...