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Wealthy nations likely met their goal of providing $100 billion in annual climate finance to poorer nations last year -- two years later than promised and only a fraction of the "extensive needs", the OECD said Thursday.Adaptation is a key priority for developing countries and wealthy governments have promised to double adaptation finance by 2025, to $40 billion a year.

PARIS: Wealthy nations likely met their goal of providing $100 billion in annual climate finance to poorer nations...

That this deeply unequal country every day provides care and support for between 1.6 and 2.5-million young children is something of a miracle

The Finance Minister’s fall economic statement – an annual exercise in revising federal spending estimates and ignoring the economic growth crisis – will be released next week

Liz Truss said the document, which includes recommendations to cut the minimum wage and brands paid holidays and redundancy cash drags on growth, was "an important part of the debate"

New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli says young people in New York may know a lot, but he also says, "they have much to learn about personal finance."

Ahead of crunch talks to broker a landmark Global Plastics Treaty, the OECD sets out plan for near-eliminating new plastic pollution worldwide by 2040

The government is moving to lower the inheritance tax, as indicated by the country’s top financial policymaker, according to market watchers. However, attempts to ease capital gains tax requirements for large shareholders are failing, as public support wanes for the ruling party and the government ahead of the general election in April next year.

Polls show that most Canadians think of immigration as a driver of economic progress; until recently, that belief was well founded

According to a study by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), nearly one in five adults (19%) reported heavy episodic dri