This huge dam is expected to provide ten million people with electricity in a country where 70% of its population experiences power shortages ...
In 2025, countries like South Sudan, Burundi, and Malawi face severe poverty, with low GDP per capita. Factors such as ...
19 of the world’s 20 poorest countries are in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), with Afghanistan as the only non-African country on the list. Despite being the second-fastest-growing region after Asia ...
The decline in extreme poverty was largely fueled by the rapid advances in two regions – East Asia and the Pacific and South Asia –specifically in China, Indonesia, and India. In 60 of 83 countries ...
As one of the poorest countries in Europe and Central Asia, Moldova needs to continue its progress by addressing structural challenges. Moldova has experienced rapid economic growth in the past decade ...
Economic reforms and growth Cambodia and the Lao PDR are the poorest countries in East Asia, with estimated annual GNP per capita in 1998 of $280 and $330, respectively. Social indicators are poor ...
On February 25th Sir Keir Starmer chopped Britain’s aid budget from 0.5% to 0.3% of gross national income to spend more on defence. France, the most generous Western donor after America, will this ...
This is true of China and India since they embraced trade liberalization and other market-oriented reforms, and also of higher-income countries in Asia—like Korea and Singapore—that were themselves ...