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It is well understood that the same amount of aid makes a bigger difference to peoples’ lives when their incomes are lower. And Development Minister Andrew Mitchell has rightly emphasised a “focus on the poorest and most vulnerable” in the UK’s development activities. With significant cuts to the UK’s aid budget since 2020, we might have expected remaining resources to become more focussed on the poorest. However, the latest official data for 2021 shows that the trend of moving resourc...

The World Bank (WB) announced this week the appointment of US-French Economist Marianne Fay as its new Director for Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay to replace Jordan Schwartz, who will head the Eastern Europe division.

Hong Kongs New World Development is talking to investors about the sale of a majority stake in an office tower under its premium K11 brand as it disposes of non-core assets to fund its rapid... | February 2, 2023

New World is offering a guaranteed capitalisation rate to attract investors.

(RTTNews) - The Hong Kong stock market has moved lower in consecutive trading days, tumbling more than 840 points or 4 percent along the way. The ...

In a year dominated by the rhetoric of defending democracy, EU democracy support policies were adjusted in important ways to align with the new geopolitical context. However, the union also seemed to treat commitments in this area as second-order priorities compared to security.

When the first waves of Chinese graduate students arrived on American campuses in the early 1980s, they were excited at entering an unfettered learning environment. After the recent ravages of the Cultural Revolution, political science students had few inhibitions about studying what had gone wrong in China as they were growing up.

The recycled soap opera of English royals tearing strips off each other continues to preoccupy Australian and British audiences, writes Rupen Savoulian.

After years of relative peace, the Karamoja region is again experiencing outbreaks of violence. That’s kept many students and teachers at home.

More than a decade ago, Bolivia pioneered an innovative conservation project. For the very first time, inhabitants of the same watershed, both those living in rural areas and in cities, could work together to protect the forest and its water sources. These Reciprocal Water Agreements, also known by the Spanish-language language acronym ARA (Acuerdo Recíproco […]