In 2025, countries like South Sudan, Burundi, and Malawi face severe poverty, with low GDP per capita. Factors such as ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Rogun Dam is being built in Tajikistan, one of the poorest countries in Asia and the poorest in central Asia. The International Fund For Agricultural Development (IFAD) puts the country's ...

In contrast, East Asia & Pacific has seen its societal poverty rate drop by 38 percentage points. Since 1990, societal poverty declined across all developing regions, but has remained stubbornly ...

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 ...

And while some critics have attributed the trend to poor testing regimes ... world’s least impacted countries from a public health perspective”, the Southeast Asia Globe reports.

The initiative, backed by seven former African heads of state, is calling for a plan modelled after the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC ... nations in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin ...