Developing countries face possible shelving of crucial green action plan at IMF and World Bank spring meetings
Governments desperate for cash to protect their citizens from the growing impacts of the …
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Task for the week: limit the fallout from biggest oil shock in decades | Richard Partington ⊖⊖
As World Bank and IMF chiefs gather in Washington the Iran war is driving up energy prices, fuelling inflation and making voters impatient
The world’s finance ministers and central bank governors gath…
60 days ago
Declining health and education in poor countries harms earning potential, World Bank says ⊖
Report says children born today could earn 51% more over lifetime if their country’s human capital improved
Deteriorating health, education and training in many developing countries is dramatically de…
87 days ago
Trump appoints Blair, Kushner and Rubio to Gaza ‘board of peace’ ⊕
White House says seven-strong board, chaired by Trump, will steer Gaza through next phase of reconstruction
Donald Trump has appointed the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and former British prime …
3 months ago
Reform plan to cap aid at £1bn would damage UK’s international influence, critics warn ⊖⊖
Exclusive: Campaigners say slashing overseas aid would leave UK unable to meet existing commitments
Plans by Reform UK to slash the aid budget by 90% would not cover existing contributions to global b…
4 months ago
The Guardian view on the inequality emergency: why a Nobel prize winner’s warning must be heeded | Editorial ⊖⊖
Rising economic division is destabilising nations and eroding accountability. Joseph Stiglitz’s G20 blueprint offers a way toward global economic renewal
When Swiss tycoons handed Donald Trump a gold …
China has brought millions out of poverty. The US has not – by choice ⊕
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Despite the US’s economic success, income inequality remains breathtaking. But this is no glitch – it’s the system
The Chinese did rather well in the age of globalization. In 1990, 943 million people …
Eurogroup President Paschal Donohoe quits as Irish finance minister ○
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Donohoe will become managing director and chief knowledge officer at the World Bank.
5 months ago
‘Every day’s a fight’: join the commuters in Africa’s rapidly growing cities ⊕
With more and more people moving to big cities such as Nairobi and Abidjan, daily commutes are becoming tougher
Africa is a rapidly urbanising continent. Since 1990, the proportion of people who live …
Estimated €185bn needed to rebuild Syria after 14 years of civil war, World Bank says ⊖⊖
Syria's civil war began in 2011 when mass protests against the government of then-President Bashar al-Assad were met with a brutal crackdown and spiralled into armed conflict.