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Climate-smart agriculture is getting a “once-in-a-generation” investment of $20 billion. Louisiana farmers show what a successful rollout could look like.

Climate-smart agriculture is getting a “once-in-a-generation” investment of $20 billion. Louisiana farmers show what a successful rollout could look like.

PM-JAY, India’s national health insurance program, is the largest publicly funded health insurance program in the world. It has reformed the way in which the poor and vulnerable access hospital care in India. The size of this program and the inclusion of private providers in delivering care has led to the implementation of a provider case-based payments scheme. Case-based payments are widely used throughout the world as a means of paying both individual and institutional health care providers ...

Zimbabwe to deepen cooperation, promote development of traditional friendship with China: president-

WASHINGTON, June 7 (Reuters) - Warning of increased risk associated with fragility and record sovereign debt levels, a group of top Latin American economists on Wednesday urged the International Monetary Fund to adopt immedia... | 02:00pm

The International Development Select Committee said the current approach of focusing on ‘market-based solutions’ to the problem is ‘not good…

The decision to fund medications to treat H.I.V.-AIDS patients in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean flew in the face of expert advice. But the U.S. did it anyway.

The Committee identifies three critical developments in the global economy with profound implications that require urgent changes at the IMF. This statement advances broad proposals to address these issues by creating an Emerging Markets Fund (EMF); modifying the G20 Common Framework to effectively differentiate across debt classes in EMDE debt restructurings; and empowering the IMF to refinance outstanding debts from failed programs. 

Navigator Terminals and alfanar will enter a joint FEED study to determine the key scope for the U.K.’s first SAF handling terminal that will be located on North Tees to transport feedstock and handle the production volumes from alfanars plant.

According to the United Nations, 55 per cent of the worlds population – about four billion people – did not benefit from social protection in 2016.