BAKU, Azerbaijan—A few dozen miles from the United Nations climate conference here, a company controlled by the United Arab ...

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 ...

UN chief tells Second World Summit for Social Development in Qatar that 700 million people live in extreme poverty.

The World Bank warned in a new report that poor countries will be stuck in economic “purgatory” without debt relief. By Alan Rappeport Reporting from Washington Soaring inflation saddled developing ...

This week, officials from around the world are meeting in Seville for a landmark event in the development policy calendar: the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development. The previous ...

Aiming to investigate small island resilience in public health emergencies, we found existing classifications of Small Island ...

Awaza, 8 August 2025 – The Third United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDC3) concluded today in Awaza, Turkmenistan, with the adoption of the Awaza Political Declaration, and ...

Against a backdrop of escalating geopolitical tension and widening social divides, global leaders at the Second World Summit for Social Development on Tuesday adopted the Doha Political Declaration, ...

France is the latest country to change its criminal code to a consent-based definition of rape, but other developed countries ...