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 ...

Southeast Asia is a region of vibrant contrasts—lush rainforests, bustling cities, and a tapestry of cultures that ...

The arguments the Trump administration makes to justify dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development are, for ...

USAID started in the 1960s as a way to offset the spread of communism. Since then, it has had various other soft-power ...

Critics of the Trump administration’s early actions on global health—withdrawing from the World Health Organization (WHO) and ...

Siddharth Chatterjee, the UN Resident Coordinator in China, told the Global Times on Wednesday that China's green transition ...

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 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 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 ...

When I undertook a sociological survey, at the age of 23 years among the Veddas of Wellassa-Bintenne in 1950, I came to ...

The U.N. World Food Programme warned on Friday that 58 million people were at risk of extreme hunger or starvation unless ...