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No effective general theoretical orientation has been provided to guide realistic and holistic development agendas, writes Vijay Prashad. And no outlines seem readily available for an exit from the permanent debt-austerity cycle. By Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research

AMMAN —  Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Zeina Toukan and World Bank Country Director for the Middle East Jean-Christophe Carret on Sunday signed a $250 million agreement to finance the Water Sector Efficiency Project in Jordan.

A 24-year-old climate campaigner said young people are determined to chart their own destiny -- even if they do it on their own.

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Her distant ancestors paddled canoes across the Pacific Ocean to settle what became the island nation of Tuvalu, but now climate change means Grace Malie and her generation may live to see those islands swallowed by the sea. Pacific island nations are ground zero for climate change impacts and their plight embodies the sweeping environmental damage that is the hallmark of the era of humans, the Anthropocene.

Unlike its wealthier neighbors like Japan and South Korea, an aging society is likely to be the least of the Philippines problems in the next decades...

How do we address climate change, reduce poverty, and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet? Climate change is one of the defining issues of our time, and no country is immune. On this episode of The Development Podcast, we hone in on voices across Africa about the experience of climate change and how it intersects with poverty, and we hear from the World Bank’s Chief Economist for Sustainable Development in Washington, DC. Tune in as we speak with Cathy Kamamu, a farmer from Kenya, Prof...

It is a pertinent question to enquire whether Pakistans external debt of USD 126.3 billion (by the end of December 2022) is unsustainable against the size of the economy of USD 350 billion. In fact, it is not the quantum of external debt that is a problem, but a flawed debt policy being pursued since long.

In the aftermath of the Shehbaz Sharif government’s widely criticized budget, which was met with disdain by independent economists and also drew veiled criticism from the IMF, a last-minute...

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