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HONG KONG -Hong Kong has contracted a Chinese firm to build eight isolation and treatment facilities to help fight a worsening COVID-19 outbreak, as the government said on Friday daily cases in the...

Two World Bank papers investigate the links between electricity, internet, and road infrastructure investments and economic development in two fragile regions of Africa and how development impacts are enhanced when different types of infrastructure are provided jointly.

Examining the association between meat intake and life expectancy at a population level based on ecological data published by the United Nations agencies

New 2022 World Development Report: Finance for an Equitable Recovery examines the central role finance plays in the economic recovery from COVID19, so that everyone, including vulnerable groups such as poor adults, women, and small businesses, are able to recover.

Press accounts of dirty activities springing up in developing countries, in part to evade stricter environmental regulations in developed ones, are all too common. But previous academic research has found little systematic evidence of such pollution-haven effects between the global North and South. This column looks at the recycling of lead-acid batteries in the US and Mexico,

The bank’s surveys showed 46 per cent of small and medium-sized businesses in developing countries expected to fall behind on debt payments.

While the race against time to build two makeshift hospitals continues and property developers lend hotel rooms as quarantine facilities to alleviate Hong Kong’s overloaded medical resources and offer more suitable places to quarantine patients, COVID-19 infections in the city reached a record high on Monday, with 7,533 confirmed cases reported.

SC Capital Partners has teamed up with Lofter Group to acquire a more than 90 percent interest in a project on Hong Kong's Ap Lei Chau island

HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong health authorities are expected to confirm at least 7,000 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, broadcaster TVB reported, set...

HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong health authorities are expected to confirm at least 7,000 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, broadcaster TVB reported, set...