Page 109 - Developing Countries News Today

This blog is a biweekly feature highlighting recent working papers from around the World Bank Group. It introduces five papers published in the first half of September 2022 on various topics, including COVID-19 and taxation.

I am waiting for the moment when I will be evicted because trees will be planted where my apartment building is right now. I am also waiting for the moment when I will pay a fine for eating steak. I am waiting for the day I will be encouraged to take contraception so that I […]

World powers are fighting to influence policy in South America, but bitcoin prevents outside powers from exerting subversive pressure in the region.

Ahead of the UN World Climate Conference (COP27) in November, a group of poorer nations has joined together to demand that richer nations, many of which... 16.09.2022, Sputnik International

SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping met with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Türkiye on Friday morning at Foruml

"We began exporting to the Middle East this spring"

Anfangs zu zögerlich, zu wenig Kooperation, speziell der Globale Süden im Abseits: Die internationale Staatengemeinschaft hat bei der Covid-19-Bekämpfung auf vielen Ebenen versagt. So lautet das harte Urteil von internationalen Fachleuten, das soeben in der renommierten Fachzeitschrift „The Lancet“ erschienen ist – sie finden aber auch ein paar Lichtblicke.

Africa is also staring down a nearly $1.3 trillion climate finance gap for the 2020 to 2030 period.

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Private equity fund manager Ascent has announced the final close of its Ascent Rift Valley Fund II (ARVF II) at more than USD 128 million