The World Bank is providing financial and technical assistance, along with other donors and leading international agencies like the Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in ...
In a global context where tropical rainforests play a critical role in biodiversity conservation and climate regulation, ...
This year, the COVID-19 pandemic continued to have a detrimental impact on the health and welfare of billions of people, devastating economies and worsening inequality around the world. In 2020, about ...
The brief burst after World War II was such a time, when in rapid succession the United Nations, the World Bank ... crisis.” UN Deputy Secretary General addressing the UN Food Systems Summit ...
Vaccine apartheid’ pointed to developing nations being left behind: the effects will be felt in migration and terrorism ...
The world wasted an estimated 19% of the food produced globally in 2022, or about 1.05 billion metric tons ... and violence in Haiti have worsened the crisis, with experts saying that famine ...
Blueprints like the G20 one on reforming multilateral development banks abound, but it takes political will to tackle the ...
This emerging debt crisis has roots going back nearly 30 years. The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) program, launched in 1996 by the World Bank and the IMF ... totaling $78.1 billion include ...
The money from Washington, which includes $5 billion to replenish Israel’s defenses and $1 billion for Gazan civilians, comes ...
PARIS/BASEL - For the first time in two years, some low-income and lower-middle-income countries (LMICs) can access the bond ...
All this and more on this edition of World Street. Wages Up Or Shutters Down As the new minimum wage hike law is slated to take effect in California from April 1, fast-food restaurants and ...